1. Jack T. Sanders, Charisma, Converts, Competitors: Societaland Sociological Factors in the Success of Early Christianity (London: SCM Press, 2000), 74.
2. Charles Kannengiesser, “A Key for the Future of Patristics: The ‘Senses’ of Scripture,” in In Dominico Eloquio—In Lordly Eloquence: Essays on Patristic Exegesis in Honor of Rohert Louis Wilken, ed. Paul M. Blowers, Angela Russell Christman, David G. Hunter, and Robin Darling Young (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002), 90–106, here on 104.
3. See, among many possibilities, Arvind Rajagopal, “The Gujarat Experiment and Hindu National Realism: Lessons for Secularism,” in The Crisis of Secularism in India, ed. Anuradha Dingwaney Needham and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2007), 208–224. In this same volume the distinguished doyenne of Indian historiography, Romila Thapar, writes: “The Hindutva version of history was written and expounded generally by nonhistorians— by engineers and computer specialists and by religious organizations. So there has been little understanding of historical method and the complications in handling source material or the theories of historical explanation.” (In her essay, “Secularism, History, and Contemporary Politics in India,” 191–207, here on 197). She also reiterates the chilling reality that religious fundamentalism and globalization go together as seen by fundamentalist religious organizations being funded, financed, and “fueled by a wealthy section of the Indian diaspora that has no intention of returning to India but acts as an incendiary by financing and supporting the politics of religious fundamentalism and violence.” (206–207).An important book dealing with this and related issues is Eric Lott, Religious Faith, Human Identity: Dangerous Dynamics in Global and Indian Life (Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation, 2005).
4. Catherine Keller, “The Love of Postcolonialism: Theology in the Interstices of Empire,” in Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity and Empire, ed. Catherine Ketter, Michael Nausner, and Mayra River (St. Louis, MI: Chalice Press, 2004), 221–242, here on 224.
5. Jean Comaroff, “The End of History, Again? Pursing the Past in the Postcolony,” in Postcolonial Studies and Beyond, ed. Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2006), 125–144, here on 142.