Sara Grant
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Sara Grant, RSCJ was an Indologist, and, as a missionary and member of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, actively engaged in interreligious dialogue in India.
Sr Sara Grant came as a missionary to India, and for many years taught at Sophia College. Under the influence and guidance of Fr Richard De Smet
, SJ, she did a doctorate in the University of Bombay on the concept of relation in Sankaracarya.
She became a member of the ecumenical religious community (Anglican and Catholic) of the innovative Christa Prema Seva Ashram (CPS), Shivajinagar, Pune - India. During these years, she also taught Indian philosophy at Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune, the Catholic Pontifical Institute of Philosophy and Theology.
She was invited on occasion to lecture on Sankaracarya at Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, where she reports that her interpretation of Sankara was well-received.
Sara Grant was one of the most active Catholics in the area of interreligious dialogue in the second half of the twentieth century. She liked to describe herself as a 'Non-Dualist Christian' (see the bibliography below).
Life
Sara Grant was born in Scotland in 1922. Having converted to Roman Catholicism, she joined the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In university, one of her mentors was Iris Murdoch, herself then in the throes of a religious conversion.Sr Sara Grant came as a missionary to India, and for many years taught at Sophia College. Under the influence and guidance of Fr Richard De Smet
Richard De Smet
Richard De Smet was a Jesuit Indologist and missionary to India.- Life :Born at Charleroi, Belgium, he came to India as a young student of theology in 1946...
, SJ, she did a doctorate in the University of Bombay on the concept of relation in Sankaracarya.
She became a member of the ecumenical religious community (Anglican and Catholic) of the innovative Christa Prema Seva Ashram (CPS), Shivajinagar, Pune - India. During these years, she also taught Indian philosophy at Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune, the Catholic Pontifical Institute of Philosophy and Theology.
She was invited on occasion to lecture on Sankaracarya at Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, where she reports that her interpretation of Sankara was well-received.
Sara Grant was one of the most active Catholics in the area of interreligious dialogue in the second half of the twentieth century. She liked to describe herself as a 'Non-Dualist Christian' (see the bibliography below).