Beschreibung:
"Traces Clooney's intellectual and spiritual journey from middle-class American Catholicism to a lifelong study of Hinduism. It sheds fresh and realistic light on the idea and ideal of scholar-practitioner, since Clooney's wide learning, Christian theological and Hindu, is grounded in his Catholic and Jesuit commitments and in a commensurate learning with respect to several Hindu traditions that are most accessible to scholars willing to learn empathetically and in a participatory manner"--
AcknowledgmentsPart One - Learning: A Double FormationPreface1. Beginnings: The Touch of a Calling2. First Formation: Becoming a Jesuit3. Learning to Read: Classics, Philosophy, Literature4. Crossing Worlds: Kathmandu5. Studying Theology: Trying to Think6. Second Formation: From Hyde Park to Madras7. Poetic Readings: A Hindu Saint and MePart Two - Working: BC and Harvard, and (Perhaps) Beyond8. Writing Comparative Theology9. Teaching, Preaching, Praying10. Later in My CareerEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex