Interdisciplinary Research

    Researching Lived Religion

    MCISR facilitates interdisciplinary research to have a better understanding of lived religion. Lived realities are complex and can be understood better when theology engages other disciplinary perspectives and theories from social sciences.

     

    Completed Projects

    Transformative Religious Experience

    A major interdisciplinary research on religious conversion, engaging social sciences, was completed and published as a book by MCISR. You may preview the book HERE


    Religious Conversion and Personal Transformation

    Christian conversion was analyzed from a psycho-spiritual perspective and was published in Transformation


    Religious Conversion in India: Political Exploitation or Personal Transformation?

    This research analyzed transformative religious experience of Brahmin converts to Christianity from a phenomenological perspective and critiqued the views of Gandhi and Golwalkar on religious conversion. It was published as a chapter in an edited volume by Fortress Press.

    Research Interests

    • Religion and Individual
    • Religion and society
    • Religion and Culture
    • Religion and Politics
    • Religion and Economics

    Future Projects

     

    Religious Conversion and Family Estrangement

    This study will examine the lived experience of family estrangement by converts to Christianity from the perspectives of theology, psychology, and family studies. It is likely to be published in a journal.