Hearing Hindu Stories

This article presses on some of the key insights from Mack’s seminal essay on Christianity vis-à-vis scholarship on a different religion, namely Hinduism. I suggest some extensions of Mack’s argument to the academic study of Hindu traditions, such as identifying the harms posed by the soft inclusion...

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Main Author: Truschke, Audrey (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 35, Issue: 5, Pages: 466-477
Further subjects:B Theology
B Hindu Nationalism
B Religious Studies
B Diversity
B Hinduism
B Christianity
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