Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Framing the questions -- The Westcott-Teape legacy -- The very idea of Hindu-Christian studies -- The problem of Hindu-Christian studies: is there such a thing? -- Admission of a mixed history -- The quest for a shared space for Hindu-Christian studies -- Writing as a Catholic Christian scholar of Hinduism -- Outline of the book -- Lecture One -- The Jesuit study of Hinduism: An admirable and imperfect model for Hindu-Christian studies -- The proto-Indologists and the quest to distinguish culture from superstition -- Brahmabandhab Upadhyay and the rebirth of the Jesuit study of Hinduism -- Western Jesuit Indologists of the 20th century -- The contribution of Indian Jesuit scholars -- Pushing the Jesuit study of Hinduism to the margins -- Lecture Two -- How (and why) some Hindus have studied Christianity -- Two pioneering figures in scholarly exchange -- Some key Hindu intellectuals in mid-century -- Two contemporary Hindu intellectuals -- Prospects for vital Hindu theological engagement with the West -- Lecture Three -- How the study of religions can rejuvenate Hindu-Christian studies -- Rethinking our study of religions, Christianity, and Hinduism -- A note on the widened academic possibilities today -- Debating the study of religions: which kind of study? -- Which form of religious studies? -- Hindu-Christian debates in the contemporary academy -- Integral learning: from the study of religions to Hindu-Christian studies -- Epilogue: Retrieving the delicate balance of Hindu-Christian studies -- Hindu-Christian studies as a primarily theological project -- Virtues essential to comparative theology -- My own work as comparative theology and as Hindu-Christian studies -- Examples of Hindu-Christian studies today