Papers Session In-person November Annual Meeting 2025

Moral Worlds and Sacred Duties: Ethics in Hindu and Christian Thought and Practice

Sunday, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Session ID: P23-103
Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)

This panel undertakes a comparative study of ethics, morality and power in Hindu and Christian traditions.  It examines the ways ethics in these traditions have been understood and practiced in both historical and contemporary contexts.  By centering Hindu-Christian perspectives on morality, this panel aims to illustrate the ways that such an analysis enhances the study of ethics in religion and philosophy more broadly.

Papers

Hindu kings in native states of Rajputana, and British missionaries working in those states, adapted their ideas of righteous kingly rule due to their interactions with each other over the course of the British imperial era.

The paper is a proposal to draw on those strands of Hindu and Christian theologies which see the divine permeating all of creation.  Through such an emphasis on perceiving divinity in all, it seeks to overcome deep human divisions which threaten to destroy life. 

This paper looks beyond the "great traditions" of Hinduism and Christianity, to adivasi life and ethics.  It seeks to infuse the discussions in Hindu and Christian traditions with ethical insights and wisdom from adivasi communities.

This paper investigates the way that yogic ethics can guide the statecraft of rulers through self-mastery.

Audiovisual Requirements
Other
Microphone and speakers
Comments
I have not put the names of the participants for the papers, since these are in the original paper submissions.
Please schedule this session on Friday from 7 to 9 p.m., when the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies has traditionally had its first session. | This is one paper in a panel on Hindu-Christian Ethics