Berkley Center

Chad Bauman, professor of religion at Butler University, is an expert on religion and society in India. His earliest research focused on the interaction of low-caste Christians and Hindus in colonial Chhattisgarh; his book Christian Identity and Dalit Religion in Hindu India, 1868-1947 (2008) won the prize for best book in Hindu-Christian Studies, 2006-2008, from the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies. Bauman has since worked on Indian debates about conversion and Hindu-Christian conflict, authoring Pentecostals, Proselytization, and anti-Christian Violence in India (2015) and Anti-Christian Violence in India (2020). Bauman also writes about Hindu critics of Christianity and western secular modernities, as in “Critiques of Christianity from Savarkar to Malhotra,” forthcoming in The Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations, which Bauman edited with Michelle Voss Roberts. Currently, he is beginning research on the experiences and treatment of Hindu minorities in predominantly Christian countries. Bauman was also a part of the Christianity and Freedom Project headed by the Berkley Center's Religious Freedom Project.