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This book collects fifteen essays and book sections about the Jesuits in India written over a period of more than thirty years. Many of these pieces, unavailable for years, now appear together for the first time. The essays open a window on the 450-year Jesuit history in India, from Roberto de Nobili in the seventeenth century to the leading Jesuit scholars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume looks back into this long missionary history, but Clooney’s eye is also on the question of relevance today: How ought interreligious learning take place in the twenty-first century?
“Western Jesuit Scholars in India is a fascinating collection of studies of 17th-21st century Jesuit writings in and about classical India. By his methods and questions, Francis Clooney, Indologist and Jesuit theologian, exposes certain aporias and deficiencies latent in Indology. It concludes with a notable proposal of an interfaith sensibility.”
Gérard Colas, Directeur de recherche émérité, Centre National de la Recherche scientifique, Paris
“Francis X. Clooney’s Western Jesuit Scholars in India is that of a humanist. He is not only a studious and assiduous reader of texts in languages and intellectual idioms that few scholars are capable of untangling, but is also committed to finding deep human and spiritual connections, detecting the intellectual empathies and affinities that the Jesuit missionaries had labored to bring out in their writings over half a millennium. With a clear and engaging pen, impressive erudition, and intellectual humility before the truly difficult task, Clooney studies what is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating chapters in Jesuit intellectual history, the encounter with Indian philosophical and textual traditions. Seekers of knowledge and cultural understanding of all stripes will find in this book plenty of wisdom, some surprises, and a large historical canvas stretching from Italy to India and back, and beyond.”
Ines G. Županov, Senior Fellow, Centre d’études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, CNRS, Paris
“Western Jesuit Scholars in India is a fascinating collection of studies of 17th-21st century Jesuit writings in and about classical India. By his methods and questions, Francis Clooney, Indologist and Jesuit theologian, exposes certain aporias and deficiencies latent in Indology. It concludes with a notable proposal of an interfaith sensibility.”
Gérard Colas, Directeur de recherche émérité, Centre National de la Recherche scientifique, Paris
“Francis X. Clooney’s Western Jesuit Scholars in India is that of a humanist. He is not only a studious and assiduous reader of texts in languages and intellectual idioms that few scholars are capable of untangling, but is also committed to finding deep human and spiritual connections, detecting the intellectual empathies and affinities that the Jesuit missionaries had labored to bring out in their writings over half a millennium. With a clear and engaging pen, impressive erudition, and intellectual humility before the truly difficult task, Clooney studies what is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating chapters in Jesuit intellectual history, the encounter with Indian philosophical and textual traditions. Seekers of knowledge and cultural understanding of all stripes will find in this book plenty of wisdom, some surprises, and a large historical canvas stretching from Italy to India and back, and beyond.”
Ines G. Županov, Senior Fellow, Centre d’études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, CNRS, Paris
Price: $153.00
Pages: 292
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Jesuit Studies
Publication Date:
16 April 2020
ISBN: 9789004424739
Format: Hardcover
“Western Jesuit Scholars in India is an eminently readable critical survey of four centuries of Jesuit scholarship in India. […] This work will be a valuable resource for scholars of religious studies, South Asian literature, translation and intercultural studies, Catholic theology, and to those interested in the history of the Catholic Church in India.”
Annie Rachel Royson, Pandit Deendayal Energy University. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2021), pp. 314–316.
“This important collection continues a tradition of Western Jesuit scholarship in India, begun in the sixteenth century. It also opens a window onto the works of twenty-first century scholars who continue the practice of missionary scholarship with an indological and theological approach. There is much yet to be discovered and debated.”
Antony Mecherry S.J., Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome. In: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Vol. 90, fasc. 179 (2021–I), pp. 153–158.
Annie Rachel Royson, Pandit Deendayal Energy University. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2021), pp. 314–316.
“This important collection continues a tradition of Western Jesuit scholarship in India, begun in the sixteenth century. It also opens a window onto the works of twenty-first century scholars who continue the practice of missionary scholarship with an indological and theological approach. There is much yet to be discovered and debated.”
Antony Mecherry S.J., Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome. In: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Vol. 90, fasc. 179 (2021–I), pp. 153–158.
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., is the Parkman Professor of Divinity at Harvard University. His research interests and numerous publications focus on classical Hinduism, comparative theological reflection on Hinduism and Christianity, and missionary–Hindu encounters. His books include The Future of Hindu–Christian Studies: A Theological Inquiry (London: Routledge, 2017) and Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics: Why and How Deep Learning Still Matters (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019).