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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Comparative Theology A Festschrift in Honor of Francis X. Clooney, SJ

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  • Copyright: 2023-12-11
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Summary

An incisive and original collection of the most engaging issues in contemporary comparative theology

In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Comparative Theology, a team of distinguished scholars delivers a one-of-a-kind collection of essays on comparative theology. Honoring the groundbreaking work of Francis X. Clooney, S.J.—whose contributions to theology and religion will endure for generations—the included works explore seven key subjects in comparative theology, including its theory, method, history, influential contemporary developments, and potentially fruitful avenues for future discussion.

The editors provide essays that reflect on the critical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of comparative theology, as well as constructive and critical appraisals of Francis Clooney’s scholarship. Over forty original contributions from internationally recognized scholars and insightful newcomers to the field are included within. Readers will also find:

  • Insightful discussions of the larger implications of comparative theology beyond the discipline itself, especially as it relates to educational programs, institutions, and post-carceral life
  • Robust promotion of the research methods and critical thinking present in Francis Clooney’s work
  • Practical discussions of the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing theological researchers today
  • Papers from leading contributors located around the globe, including emerging voices from the global south

Perfect for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of theology and religious studies, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Comparative Theology will also benefit scholars with an interest in comparative religion, interreligious studies, and interreligious theology.

Author Biography

Axel Marc Oaks Takacs is Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Molloy University and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interreligious Studies. He is a comparative theologian and renowned scholar of Islamic and interreligious studies.

Joseph Kimmel recently completed his PhD at Harvard (Study of Religion). He teaches part-time at Boston College and serves as an Episcopal priest.. In addition to a forthcoming article in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, he has been published in journals including Biblical Interpretation, the Journal of Interreligious Studies, the International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, and the Graduate Journal of Harvard Divinity School.

Table of Contents

Part I: Theories and Methods in Comparative Theology

Chapter 1: Five Insights on Method from Comparative Theology

Jason Smith

 

Chapter 2: Imagining Religion, Intuiting Comparison: Comparing the Roles of Inner Sense in the Scholarship of Jonathan Z. Smith and Francis X. Clooney, SJ

Joseph Kimmel

 

Chapter 3: Resisting Relativism in Comparative Theology

Catherine Cornille

 

Chapter 4: Grounding Comparative Theology as Systematic Theology: Beyond Inclusivism and Pluralism

Ruben L.F. Habito

 

Chapter 5: Beyond the Text: Comparative Theology and Oral Cultures

Nougoutna Norbert Litoing, SJ

 

Chapter 6: Faith Seeking Understanding or Understanding Seeking Faith

Bennett DiDente Comerford

 

Chapter 7: Kinesics, Haptics, and Proxemics: A Śākta Method for Comparative Theology

Pravina Rodrigues

 

Part II: The Spirituality, Vocation, and Formation of the Comparative Theologian

Chapter 8: ‘The one who prays is a (comparative) theologian’: The Spirituality of Francis X. Clooney’s Comparative Method

Christopher Conway

 

Chapter 9: Settling the Seer: ‘Deep Learning’ and the Yoga of Slowness

Michelle Bentsman

 

Chapter 10: Comparative Theology Embodied: The Mentorship, Methodology, and Ministry of Francis X. Clooney

Katie Mahowski Mylroie

 

Chapter 11: Performance and Negotiation: Reconsidering Religious Experience in Contemporary Comparative Theology

Reid B. Locklin

 

Chapter 12: A Fowlerian Perspective on the Faith of the Comparativist

Erik Ranstrom

 

Chapter 13: Comparative Theology as Process Not Conclusion: Francis Clooney on the Proper Formation of the Comparative Theological Reader

John J. Thatamanil

 

Part III: Comparative Theology and the Society of Jesus

Chapter 14: Comparing Jesuits: Roberto De Nobili, Henri de Lubac, and Francis X. Clooney

James Fredericks

 

Chapter 15: Francis X. Clooney, SJ: Jesuit, Scholar, Missionary

Christian Krokus

 

Chapter 16: The Ignatian Tradition and the Intellectual Virtues of the Comparative Theologian

Peng Yin

 

Chapter 17: Wonder Grasps Anything: Punctuation and Patristic Theology in the Early Colonial Philippines

Maria Cecilia Holt

 

Part IV: Expanding on Francis X. Clooney’s Corpus

Chapter 18: The Interpretation of Scripture in the Comparative Theology of Francis X. Clooney

Leo D. Lefebure

 

Chapter 19: ‘Good dark love birds, will you help?’: Comparative Reflections on Clooney’s His Hiding Place is Darkness

Kimberley C. Patton

 

Chapter 20: ‘Paradoxology:’ The Srivaisnava Art of Praising Vishnu

Vasudha Narayanan

 

Chapter 21: Hymns on Mary in Hindu-Muslim-Christian Dialogue

Klaus von Stosch

 

Chapter 22: Mary and Motherhood—A Comparatively-Informed Reconsideration

Mara Brecht

 

Part V: Exercises in Comparative Theology

Chapter 23: Transformational Liberation in the Age of COVID-19: A Comparative Theology of “the Good Woman”

Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier

Chapter 24: And the Angels Wept: How Jewish and Hindu Narratives May Enrich Each Other

Arvind Sharma

 

Chapter 25: Modification, Emanation, and Pariṇāma-Vāda in Mediaeval Theistic Vedānta and Kabbalah

Ithamar Theodor

 

Chapter 26: Advancing the Ritual-Liturgical Turn in Comparative Theology: Good Friday as a Case Study

Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski

 

Chapter 27: Creative Fidelity in Expanding the Canon

Scott Steinkerchner, OP and Martin Badenhorst, OP

 

Chapter 28: Slow Reading of Beautiful Writing: Calligraphy as Vehicle for Comparative Theology

Lucinda Mosher

 

Chapter 29: Joy in the Earth: A Christian Cosmology Based on Agapic Nondualism

Jon Paul Sydnor

 

Chapter 30: Perceiving Divinity, Cultivating Wonder: A Christian-Islamic Comparative Theological Essay on Balthasar’s Gestalt

Axel M. Oaks Takacs

 

Chapter 31: Paradoxes of Desire in St. John of the Cross and Solomon ibn Gabirol: Thinking with Poetry in Comparative Theology

Luis Manuel Girón-Negrón

 

Part VI: Comparative Theology Beyond the Discipline

Chapter 32: "Locating the Self in the Study of Religion: Francis Clooney and the Experiment of Hindu-Christian Studies”

Jonathan Edelmann

Chapter 33: Learning Interreligiously as Public Theology: Limits and Possibilities for Institutional Leaders

Michelle Voss Roberts

 

Chapter 34: Comparative Theology and Public Theology: In Search of a Responsible Theology for a Post-Secular Era

Albertus Bagus Laksana

 

Chapter 35: God Meets Us There: Prison as True Home for the Christian Comparative Theologian

Mark J. Edwards

 

Part VII: The Past, Present, and Future of Comparative Theology

Chapter 36: Comparative Theologies Old and New: Exploring the Present of the Past

Marianne Moyaert

 

Chapter 37: Asking an Unusual Question of Kabir and Kazi Nazrul Islam

Rachel Fell McDermott

 

Chapter 38: Comparative Theology avant la lettre?: A Muslim 'Deep Reading' of the Ramayana in Early Modern South Asia

Shankar Nair

 

Chapter 39: Creativity and Resistance in Comparative Theology: Lessons from 18th-Century Korea

Won-Jae Hur

 

Chapter 40: In Praise of Artisans: Ramon Marti, Georges Anawati, and the Importance of Languages

Wilhelmus Valkenberg

 

Chapter 41: Lectio Divina & Comparative Reading in the History of Christian-Muslim Encounters

Rita George-Tvrtković

 

Chapter 42: Vicarious Voyage: What Difference Does Comparative Theology Make For Theology?

S. Mark Heim

 

Chapter 43: Is There or Shall We Need a “Home” for Comparative Theologies? A Ru (Confucian) Response to Francis X. Clooney

Bin Song

 

Chapter 44: Comparative Theology After Clooney

Hugh Nicholson

 

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