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God's Other Children

Personal Encounters with Love, Holiness, and Faith in Sacred India

by Bradley Malkovsky
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"A classic for our time, a testimony matching our best efforts to keep the faith and celebrate the diversity around us." —Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Parkman Professor of Divinity and Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University
God's Other Children by Bradley Malkovsky is a charming spiritual travelogue that tells the tale of a Catholic religious scholar who goes to India to study Hinduism and winds up falling in love with and marrying a Muslim.
Malkvosky, who holds a degree in Catholic theology, shares how his spiritual journey grew his faith, while raising questions about it that he had never considered, and how it changed his life in ways he could never have imagined.
Inspiring and profound, God's Other Children: Personal Encounters with Faith, Love, and Holiness in Sacred India offers a fascinating perspective on how people of all faiths encounter God.
Winner of the Huston Smith Publishing Prize from HarperOne.
"The most interesting and inspiring book that I have read in a very long time." —Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions
"A candid memoir about [an] unusual spiritual journey and a plea for ecumenical tolerance." —Kirkus Reviews
"A spiritual adventure story that illustrates the freedom and fulfillment that can be discovered in encounters with other religions and their practices." —Spirituality and Practice
"An important work that I hope will have wide reception among scholars and ordinary readers alike." —Seyyed Nasr, University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University, author of Islam in the Modern World
"Malkovsky's sensitive, personal and gripping account raises important questions and offers thought-provoking insights to Christians in general and Catholics in particular." —Swami Tyagananda, Hindu Chaplain, Harvard University and co-author of Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited

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    August 18, 2023

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      March 15, 2013
      An American Catholic theologian offers a candid memoir about his unusual spiritual journey and a plea for ecumenical tolerance. A checkered path led the author to his present calling as professor of comparative theology at the University of Notre Dame, as he recounts in these personal essays. Raised in upstate New York, Malkovsky drifted into the Catholic Church via the anti-Vietnam War movement and moved from monastic life to the study of theology in Germany, where he began to learn about liberation theology and "God's preferential option for the poor." His interests in the Hindu-Christian dialogue took him to the University of Pune, India, where he frequented the Christa Prema Seva Ashram and immersed himself in the study of Sanskrit. Malkovsky's years in India profoundly influenced his sense of spirituality--by practicing yoga and meditation, being healed by an Ayurvedic physician, and observing closely the lives of the extremely poor and disenfranchised--but he also met a Muslim woman who became his wife. Though she converted to Catholicism, her family did not immediately accept her choice. Malkovsky shares how his witness and participation in Hindu and Muslim rituals such as burials and weddings have deeply moved and impressed him, adding yet another rich layer to the expression of human spirituality that can be understood and embraced by all. In a long chapter on yoga, the author takes aim at opponents of the practice, called "demonic" by some Catholics and Protestant evangelicals. For Malkovsky, yoga imparted a rigorous control over the body and a "healthy dualism" compatible with Christianity. Refreshingly free of self-serious dogmatism, the author's study of other religions shows how it deepened his commitment to his Christian faith.

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