Thread by @Indumakalktchi

Madras university Christian studies conference, in july.

Papers to be presented and discussed.

1.Tell Us Your Name and Do as We Say!': Concealing and Revealing in the Making of Family Gods in Tamil Nadu"

2.Divine Deception or Priestly Artifice: Its Rationale and Justification in Śrī Svasthānīvrata"

3.“When Spirit Possession is Deception: Reassessing Religious Tradition as Modern Industry”

4.“Dissimulation in Early American Yoga”.

5.“Celebrity, Scandal and the Modern Godmen"

6.“Beware the Charlatan: Sant and Asant in Niṣkuḷānanda Svāmī’s Cosaṭh Padī”

7.“Shadows of Inauthenticity: History and Hagiography in Vīraśaiva/Liṅgāyat Origin Stories”.

8. “Arts of Artifice: Transformations of the Hindu Divine”.

9. "Two Stories of the Origins of the Pāṇḍavas: Yudhiṣṭira’s Authenticity, Legitimacy and Deceit".

10. "Nikṛtyā Nikṛtiṃ Hanyāt: Defending Deception in the Mahābhārata Commentarial Tradition".

11. Accommodating Esotercism or Hiding a Secret in Plain Sight: The Social Place of the Śākta Tantras in the Medieval Deccan”.

12.#Mood: When the Goddess Becomes a Woman on Social Media”.

13."Devotion to Deceiving Gods or a Dispassionate Being? Objects of Praise and Disdain in Hemacandra’s Hymns".

14.“Necessary Subterfuge?: 'Hinduism' and Pedagogy”.

15. “Fictive History, Ignorance, and the Constitution of American Hindu Communities”.

16.(Mis)Translating Self-Realization: Strategic Misreading in an Advaita Commentarial Tradition”.

I don't see anything related to Christianity.