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.