David Ananda Hart

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David Ananda Hart is a British radical theologian, Anglican priest and convert to Hinduism.

[edit] Career

Educated at Keble College, Oxford and Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, with a doctorate in Philosophy of Religion from the University of Derby, Hart is a prominent member of a group of non-realist theologians inspired by the work of Don Cupitt. In 2006 Hart was the subject of some controversy after newspapers in India and the UK reported that he had converted to Hinduism, changing his middle name from Alan to Ananda, but without renouncing Christianity or his priestly orders. Hart is currently India Secretary of the World Congress of Faiths. He is also a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar (USA) and Samvada (India). His next book 'An Introduction to Hinduism' (London: Continuum 2009; Series Editor: Clinton Bennett) will examine the breadth of the Hindu faith as he discovers it living in India and will show how he regards his position as a Hindu believer as entirely compatible with being an Anglican priest in good standing with his diocesan bishop back in England.

[edit] Publications

Faith in Doubt: Non-Realism and Christian Belief (Mowbray 1993)
One Faith? Non-Realism and the World of Faiths (Mowbray 1995)
Linking Up: Christianity and Sexuality (Arthur James 1997)
(co-editor) Time and Tide: Sea of Faith Beyond the Millennium (O Books 2001) Multi-Faith Britain: An Experiment in Worship (O Books 2002)
Trading Faith: Global Religion in an Age of Rapid Change (O Books 2007)
"The Unification of World Faith: the Challenge of Sun Myung Moon" (Om Books 2007)