"We need places where religion is respected and taught openly, and for us there is no place that does this better than the GTU." - Ajay Shingal
CDS STUDENTS
Kali (Meera) Tanikella
PhD Historical and Cultural Studies
Juxtaposing Enlightenment and Dharma: Comparing the Concept of Disjunctive Individualism with Deep Interconnectedness as it Relates to Gender
Kristine Bell
MA Yoga Studies
The scholarship, theology, and theo-praxis of Yogācarya B.K.S. Iyengar.
Charissa Jaeger-Sanders
PhD Theology and Ethics
Comparative Theology: Examining the common threads between the Judeo-Christian and Hindu faiths using an inter-religious, dialogical, and philological lens.
Cogen Bohanec
PhD Historical & Cultural Studies
A Constructive Eco-theology of Kṛṣṇa Bhakti by applying the Methodologies of Eco-feminist/Animal-Rights Theology.
Janani Carpenter
MA Yoga Studies
The Teaching Tradition of Advaita Vedanta
Laura Dunn
PhD Historical & Cultural Studies
Neocolonial Developments in Śākta Tantra
Aaron Grizzell
PhD in Historical & Cultural Studies
Noel Heyden
MA Hindu Studies
Analyzing Desire in the Bhagavad Gita
Kypros Koutsokoumnis
PhD Historical & Cultural Studies
Cross-Cultural Theories of Aesthetics That Deal With the Sacred
Victoria Price
PhD History & Culture
The Impacts of Modernization on the Hindu Student/Teacher Relationship
Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan
PhD Theology & Ethics
Proposing a Contemplative-Neuroscientific Hermeneutic Methodology for Comparative-Theological Studies and its Application in Clinical Spiritual Care (Chaplaincy) Education and Medical Ethics: Towards a "Spiritual Psychiatry" Subspecialty.