Talk:Arun W. Jones

By Sachi Anjunkar

Arun W. Jones is the Dan and Lillian Hankey Associate Professor of World Evangelism and Director of the Master of Theology Program at Emory University as of October 2022. According to his university profile, his research investigates how Christians have appropriated and spread their faith in Asian contexts, especially in the era of European and American imperialism and his research interests also include Caste Systems, Caste and Untouchability, Critical Race Studies and Eugenics.

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

Publications

Books

1. Jones, Arun, editor. Interculture: Texts and Voices from Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds. Penn State University Press, 2021.
2. Jones, Arun. Missionary Christianity and Local Religion: American Evangelicalism in North India, 1836-1870. Baylor University Press, 2017.
3. Jones, Arun. Christian Missions in the American Empire: Episcopalians in Northern Luzon, the Philippines, 1902-1946. Peter Lang Publishing, 2003.

Chapters and articles

1. Jones, Arun. "Mission in the World of Religions.” Together in the Mission of God: Jubilee Reflections on the International Missionary Council, edited by Risto Jukko, World Council of Churches, 2022, pp. 199-216.
2. Jones, Arun. "Bhakti and Christian Missions." Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism, Oxford University Press, 2020.
3. Jones, Arun. "The Virtues of Mission." Methodist History, vol. 58, no. 1 and 2, Oct. 2019 and Jan. 2020.
4. Jones, Arun. "Protestants and Anglicans in South-Central Asia." Edinburgh Companions in Global Christianity, Vol 3: South and Central Asia, edited by Kenneth Ross, Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
5. Jones, Arun. "Expressions and Encounters: Experiencing the Histories and Theologies of African Christianity in the Collection of Pitts Theology Library." Theological Librarianship, vol. 12, no. 1, Apr. 2019.
6. Jones, Arun. "Not Such Distant Cousins." Insights, vol. 134, no. 2.
7. Jones, Arun. "Healing and Evangelism in American Methodism: A Proposal." Missio Dei and the United States: Toward a Faithful United Methodist Witness, edited by Kathryn Armistead, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 2018.
8. Jones, Arun. "History of the South Asian Experience of Christianity." Encyclopedia in Christianity in the Global South, Rowman and Littlefield, 2018.
9. Jones, Arun. "Discerning the Missio Dei in a Time of Crisis." Missional Preacher, American Society of Missiology, 14 Jan. 2018.
10. Jones, Arun. "Mission and Power: A View from the Underside of Society." Mission and Power: History, Relevance and Perils, edited by Atola Longkumer, Jorgen Skov Sorensen, and Michael Biehl, Regnum Books International, 2017.
11. Jones, Arun. "Indian Christians and the Appropriation of Western Civilization in the Nineteenth Century." Studies in World Christianity, vol. 23, no. 1, 1 Apr. 2017.
12. Jones, Arun. "Local Agency and the Reception of Protestantism in the Philippines." Journal of Asian/North American Theological Educators, vol. 2, no. 1, 12 Nov. 2016.