The tension between Hinduism as an ancient Indian religion and Christianity as a religion associated with foreign power and colonialism, continues to animate Hindu-Christian relations today. The handbook describes both the rich history of productive Hindu-Christian encounters, and moments of conflict between Hindus and Christians.

1. Introduction Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations 2. The Formation and Mutual Re-formations of "Christianity" and "Hinduism" as "Religious" Categories 3. The Emergence of Modern Hinduism 4. Western Philosophy and Christian Theology in Twentieth-Century Hindu Thought 5. Orientalism and Postcolonial Theory in Hindu-Christian Encounters Part II: Historical Interactions 6. Syrian Christians and Dominant-Caste Hindus 7. Hindu-Jesuit Encounters 8. State Power in the Relations between Catholics and Hindus 9. Hindu-Protestant Encounters 10. The East India Company, Christianity, and Hinduism 11. Hindu-Christian Debates in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 12. Critiques of Christianity from Savarkar to Malhotra Part III: Contemporary Exchanges: Conversion, Caste, and the Diaspora 13. Anti-Conversion Laws in Post-Independence India 14. Hindu-Christian Relations through the Lens of Caste 15. Race, Representation, and Hindu-Christian Encounters in Contemporary North America 16. ISKCON-Christian Encounters 17. Hindu-Christian Relations in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Part IV: Sites of Bodily and Material Interactions 18. Popular Religious Traditions and Shared Religious Spaces 19. "Religion" and Hindu-Christian Relations after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami 20. Gender and the Social Boundaries between "Hindus" and "Christians" 21. Ritual and Ritualization in Hindu-Christian Relations 22. Aesthetics, Art, and Visual Culture in Hindu-Christian Relations 23. Christian and Hindu Responses to Christian Yoga Practice in North America Part V: Significant Figures 24. Rammohun Roy 25. Swami Vivekananda 26. Mohandas K. ("Mahatma") Gandhi 27. Raimon Panikkar 28. Abhishiktananda Part VI: Comparative Theologies 29. A Theology of Hindu-Christian Relations 30. Rethinking the One and the Many in Advaita 31. Creation, Cosmos, Ecology 32. Competing Philosophies and Theologies of the Human Person 33. Divine Embodiment in Hinduism and Christianity 34. Truth and Salvation in Hindu-Christian Encounters 35. Inculturation 36. Peace and Conflict 37. Contemporary Hindu-Christian Dialogue Part VII: Responses 38. Response: Shared and Contested Spaces: Hindu-Christian Relations through a Performing Arts Lens 39. Response: The Handbook in Light of the Past and Future of Hindu-Christian Relations