Pilgrim in Bharat

Everyone's talking about the "Vedantic turn" in theology, so I went to India to sort it all out. Until I got sorted. The piece clocks in at about 2.73 miles per word. Bharat, of course, is changing quickly, and—especially in the north—her billboards and posters showed more interest in her G20 status than in her ancient spiritual tradition. Narendra Modi’s photo was more ubiquitous in Varanasi than Shiva’s. The glitz of Mumbai exceeds that of Hollywood. But the India I went in search of, thankfully, can still be found.

Here are the friends I made along the way, which you might recognize from the descriptions in the piece:

 

reviews, etc.

It was a delight to praise a recent book to the skies in Speculum, and I look forward to responding to Erika Doss's Spiritual Moderns at CAA next month through ASCHA. There is a generous new review (not yet online) of Mother of the Lamb by Greg Peters at Fides et Historiae, and here are some additional reviews and one of The Everlasting People. I have been asked to launch a column at Comment in the coming weeks, details to come.