Dr. Pravina L. Rodrigues

Pravina L. Rodrigues holds a PhD in Theology and Ethics from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, USA. She is Newhall Teaching Fellow (2017, 2018, 2020) and Interreligious Collaborative Research Fellow (2019). She is Adjunct Faculty at Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, CA, and the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, Berkeley, CA. She is Assistant Editor for the Journal of Dharma Studies (Springer) and Associate Editor of a thirty four-chapter volume at the intersection of ecology and religion titled Religion & Sustainability: Interreligious Resources, Interdisciplinary Responses (forthcoming, Springer 2021). Her forthcoming publication Upside Down, Inside Out: A Śākta Mnemopraxial Methodology for Comparative Theology (forthcoming, Lexington Press), offers a subaltern Hindu perspective on comparative theology, theology of religions, and interreligious dialogue. Dr. Rodrigues has received her Masters in Comparative Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, BA in Sociology from SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, and Bachelors of Theology from St. Pius X College, Mumbai. Her research interests include postcoloniality in Hindu-Christian comparative theology, methodology in comparative and interfaith theology, comparative mysticism, and faith and pluralism.