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Talk:Rudi Heredia

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By Renuka Joshi


Rudi Heredia is a Research Consultant at the Indian Social Institute as of May 29, 2023. [1] [2] According to his university profile, his specific areas of interest are Religious dynamics and conversion in India, intersections of faith, reason, ethics, and social change in South Asia, with a focus on Hinduism, Hindutva, and issues related to secularism and religious plurality.

As per his bio, he has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India or the Indian Government in the context of the BJP government.

In 2021, he along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women in these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."[3]

Publications related to India[edit]

Books[edit]

  1. Heredia, R.C. Changing Gods: Rethinking Conversion in India. Penguin Books, 2007.
  2. Heredia, R.C. Taking Sides. Penguin UK, 2012.
  3. Heredia, R.C. Tribal Education for Community Development: A Study of Schooling in the Talasari Mission Area. Concept Publishing Company, 1992.
  4. Mishra, S. "Women and 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act: A Critical Appraisal." 1997.
  5. Heredia, R.C., and Srivastava, R. Tribal Identity and Minority Status: The Kathkari Nomads in Transition. Concept Publishing Company, 1994.

Journal Articles[edit]

  1. Heredia, R.C. "Interpreting Gandhi's Hind Swaraj." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 39, 1999, pp. 1497-1502.
  2. Heredia, R.C. "Tribal Education for Development: Need for a Liberative Pedagogy for Social Transformation." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 29, 1995, pp. 891-897.
  3. Heredia, R.C. "Education and Mission: School as Agent of Evangelisation." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 24, 1995, pp. 2332-2340.
  4. Heredia, R.C. "Subaltern Alternatives on Caste, Class and Ethnicity." Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 34, no. 1, 2000, pp. 37-62.
  5. Heredia, R.C. "Gandhi's Hinduism and Savarkar's Hindutva." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 18, 2009, pp. 62-67.
  6. Heredia, R.C. "Tribal History: Living Word or Dead Letter?" Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 16, 2000, pp. 1522-1525.
  7. Heredia, R.C. "Ethnicity, Class and Nation: Interrelationships in a Multi-cultural State." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 12, 1997, pp. 1010-1015.
  8. Heredia, R.C. "No Entry, No Exit: Savarna Aversion towards Dalit Conversion." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 10, 2004, pp. 4543-4555.
  9. Heredia, R.C. Denotified and Nomadic Tribes: The Challenge of Free and Equal Citizenship. Department of Sociology, University of Pune, 2007.
  10. Heredia, R.C. "Interrogating Integration: The Counter-Cultural Tribal Other." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 9, 2002, pp. 5174-5178.
  11. Heredia, R.C. "Secularism in a Pluri-Religious Society: The Constitutional Vision." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 7, 2015, pp. 51-59.
  12. Heredia, R.C. "Interrogations from the Margins: Conversion as Critique." History and Sociology of South Asia, vol. 5, no. 2, 2011, pp. 83-102.
  13. Heredia, R.C. "Pluralism, Tolerance and Dialogue." Dialogue & Universalism, vol. 9, nos. 7-8, 1999, pp. 39-47.
  14. Heredia, R.C. "Transition and Transformation: The Opposition between Industrial and Pre-Industrial Types of Society in the Writings of Karl Marx, Ferdinand Tonnies, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber." Sociological Bulletin, vol. 35, no. 1, 1986, pp. 29-43.
  15. Heredia, R.C. "Quotas and Minority Rights: Recapturing the Constitutional Vision." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 5, 2011, pp. 62-70.
  16. Heredia, R.C., and Dandekar, A. "Warli Social History: An Introduction." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 5, 2000, pp. 4428-4436.
  17. Heredia, R.C. "Persistence and Crisis in Indian Education." Social Action-New Delhi, vol. 50, no. 4, 2000, pp. 364-371.
  18. Heredia, R.C., and Mathias, E. "Secularism and Liberation: Perspectives and Strategies for India Today." 1995.
  19. Heredia, R.C. "Legislation and Housing." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 4, 1993, pp. 97-100.
  20. Heredia, R.C. "Social Medicine for Holistic Health: An Alternative Response to Present Crisis." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 4, 1990, pp. 2673-2680.
  21. Heredia, R.C. "Development as Liberation: An Indian Christian Perspective." Religion, Community and Development, 2010, pp. 129-150.
  22. Heredia, R.C. "Globalisation and Cultural Nationalism." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 38, no. 3, 2003, pp. 207-208.
  23. Heredia, R. Teaching as a Subversive Activity: Pedagogies for Change. The Practice of Sociology, Orient Longman, 2003.
  24. Heredia, R.C. "Studies of Indian Jewish Identity." Contributions to Indian Sociology, New Series, vol. 33, nos. 1-2, 1999, pp. 1-8.
  25. Heredia, R.C. "Secularism: Perspectives and Strategies." Social Action, vol. 44, 1994, pp. 1-141.
  26. Heredia, R.C. "Education and Mission: The School as an Agent of Evangelization in India." In Discoveries, Missionary Expansion, edited by Teotonio de Souza, 1994, pp. 115-137.
  27. Heredia, R.C. "The Dialogue of Cultures: From Paranoia to Metanoia." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 2, 2007, pp. 1982-1989.
  28. Heredia, R.C. "Tolerance and Dialogue as Responses to Pluralism and Ethnicity." Social Action, vol. 47, no. 3, 1997, pp. 346-364.
  29. Heredia, R.C. "Towards an Ecological Consciousness: Religious, Ethical and Spiritual Perspectives-II." Vidyajyoti Journal of Theological Review, vol. 55, 1991.
  30. Heredia, R., and Heredia, R.C. "Problems and Possibilities of Development Work among Tribals: A Participatory Evaluation of a Voluntary Agency in India." Community Development Journal, vol. 23, no. 1, 1988, pp. 47-51.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Rudi Heredia Google scholar profile, accessed May 29, 2023
  2. ↑ Rudi Heredia Academia Profile, accessed May 29, 2023
  3. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
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