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ISBN: 9781394160655 , 1394160658 , 9781394160587 , 1394160585 , 9781394160594 , 1394160593

Series Statement: The Wiley Blackwell companions to religion

Content: "Francis Xavier Clooney (Parkman Professor of Divinity at Harvard University) is widely considered a leading figure in comparative theology not only for his ground-breaking contribution to the development of this field, but also for being a mentor and a true inspiration to many scholars. The proposed volume aims to celebrate the remarkable career and contribution of Prof. Clooney's work bringing together for the first time a stellar cast of comparative theologians whose work has been inspired and/or influenced by Clooney's studies (including former students from both Harvard and Boston). This edited work, published as part of the Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion series, is intended as a collection of essays in honour of Prof. Clooney as well a review on the current status and future development of comparative theology and its related disciplines (such as interreligious studies and comparative religion). Organised in seven sections, it consists of more than fifty original contributions written by international scholars at any level (from established tenured professors to promising doctoral students). The essays encompass a broad range of themes and topics: from issues of comparative methodologies and motivations to comparative pedagogy and "real-life" experience; from critical, theoretical, and methodological reflections on the field of comparative theology to cutting-edge historical research related to the field, unique exercises in comparative theology, constructive appraisals of Clooney's scholarship, and more. This unique collaborative project is expected to mark a major contribution to the academic community. More than merely a Festschrift, this volume extends the fields of comparative religion and theology while it pays homage, reflects upon, and critiques Clooney and his oeuvre"--

Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Francis X. Clooney, SJ, and the Discipline of Comparative Theology -- Comparative Theology and Theological Scholarship and Education -- Comparative Theology and the Study of Religion -- Other Introductory Texts -- Content -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part I Theories and Methods in Comparative Theology -- Chapter 1 Five Insights on Method from Comparative Theology -- Academic Rigor -- Scholarly Positionality -- Learning from Tradition -- Grounded in Particulars -- The End of Comparison -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 Imagining Religion, Intuiting Comparison: Comparing the Roles of Inner Sense in the Scholarship of Jonathan Z. Smith and Francis X. Clooney, SJ -- Introduction1 -- Inner Sense in the Scholarship of Francis X. Clooney, SJ -- Inner Sense in the Scholarship of Jonathan Z. Smith -- Inner Sense Compared -- Scholarly Value of Inner Sense -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Resisting Religious Relativism in Comparative Theology -- Introduction -- The Question of Relativism in Transreligious Theology -- Comparative Theology as Resistance to Relativism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Grounding Theology of Religions in Comparative Theology: A Fulfillment Model in Reverse -- Christian Theologies of Religions: Retracing the Steps -- Insights from Recent Ventures in Comparative Theology -- "Creation" in Buddhist-Christian Dialogical Encounters -- The Meaning of Christ -- The Spirit in the World -- Triune Mystery in the Religious Experience of Other Traditions -- Reconfiguring Theology of Religions: Toward a "Fulfillment Model in Reverse" -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Beyond the Text: Comparative Theology and Oral Cultures -- Oral Theology. , Example: Gurna Daay as Possible Source for Theology -- Forms of Gurna -- Gurna kag-ré (Chicken gurna) -- Gurna fiirí (Goat gurna) -- Gurna daay (Cow gurna) -- Threats to the Gurna and Theological Opportunities -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Faith Seeking Understanding or Understanding Seeking Faith? -- Prologue -- The Opening -- The Main Event -- The Response -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Kinesics, Proxemics, and Haptics: A Sakta Method for Comparative Theology -- Introduction -- Kinesics -- Proxemics -- Haptics -- The Infrastructure of Sakta Rituals -- Sakta Method for Comparative Theology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 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 -- Comparative Theology: Acts of Faith Seeking Understanding -- The One Who Prays Is a (Comparative) Theologian -- A Kind of Conclusion (for now) -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 Settling the Seer: "Deep Learning" and the Yoga of Slowness -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Comparative Theology Embodied: The Mentorship, Methodology, and Ministry of Francis X. Clooney -- Mentorship -- Methodology -- Divine Mother, Blessed Mother -- Identity Interrogation -- Critiques and Cautions -- Ministry -- References -- Chapter 11 Performance and Engagement: Reconsidering Religious Experience in Contemporary ComparativeTheology -- Helplessly Ignatian? Francis Clooney on Religious Experience(s) -- Annihilating the Mind? Swami Tejomayananda's Talks on Ramana Maharshi -- Performance and Engagement: Rethinking Religious Experience in Advaita Vedanta -- Conclusion: Performing a Comparative Self -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12 A Fowlerian Perspective on the Faith of the Comparativist. , Fowlerian Pastoral Psychology as an Alternative to Theology of Religions -- An Overview of Fowlerian Stage Theory -- Individuative-Reflective Faith and Religious Rigidity -- Conjunctive Faith and Comparative Theology: Clooney's Conjunctive Mysticism -- Conjunctive Faith and Comparative Theology as Public Witness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13 Comparative Theology as Process Not Conclusion: Francis Clooney on the Proper Formation of Comparative Theological Readers -- Notes -- References -- Part III Comparative Theology and the Society of Jesus -- Chapter 14 Comparing Jesuits: Roberto de Nobili, Henri de Lubac, and Francis X. Clooney -- Roberto de Nobili, SJ -- Reason and Its Uses -- Henri de Lubac, SJ -- A Comparison of Two Jesuits -- Paradoxes of Grace -- Shadows and Remembrance -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 15 Francis X. Clooney, SJ: Jesuit, Scholar, Missionary -- Jesuit Missionaries in India -- Critically Appropriating the Jesuit Missionary Tradition -- Examples from Comparative Theology -- Concluding Question -- Personal Anecdote -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 16 The Ignatian Tradition and the Intellectual Virtues of a Comparative Theologian -- Attentiveness to Text -- Discernment of True Religion -- Dialogical Openness -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 17 Wonder Grasps Anything: Punctuation and Patristic Theology in the Early Colonial Philippines -- Preface -- Introduction -- Demons in Parenthesis -- The Story of Gregory Wonderworker, the Temple Custodian, and Gregory's Note to Demons -- The Patristic Text -- Wonderworking in the Philippines -- Conversion by Miracle or by the Mundane? -- The Catolona as Spiritual Warrior and Wonder Worker -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Part IV Expanding on Francis X. Clooney's Corpus. , Chapter 18 The Interpretation of Scripture in the Comparative Theology of Francis X. Clooney -- Introduction -- The Second Vatican Council -- Theology After Vedanta -- Seeing Through Texts -- Divine Mother, Blessed Mother -- The Truth, the Way, the Life and Beyond Compare -- His Hiding Place Is Darkness -- Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 19 "Good Dark Love Birds, Will You Help?": Comparative Reflections on Clooney's His Hiding Place Is Darkness -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 20 "Paradoxology": The Srvaisnava Art of Praising Visnu -- Notes -- Chapter 21 Hymns on Mary in Hindu-Muslim-Christian Dialogue -- Critique of Political Theology -- Mary as Gate of Salvation? -- Cosmic Harmony and Deep Incarnation -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 22 Mary and Motherhood -- A Comparatively Informed Reconsideration -- Hymns to the Goddesses -- Turn to Mary: A Decisive Feminist Re-Visioning -- Another Pass at Mary -- The Luminous Density of Historical, Material Being -- Notes -- References -- Part V Exercises in Comparative Theology -- Chapter 23 Transformational Liberation in the Age of COVID-19: A Comparative Theology of "the Good Woman" -- Introduction -- Biopolitics, Necropolitics, and COVID-19 -- The Cilappatikaram and the "Good Woman" -- Gendered Power in Third-Gender Religion -- Transforming Gender and Liberation in Meena Kandasamy's Ms Militancy -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 24 And the Angels Wept: How Jewish and Hindu Narratives May Enrich Each Other -- Introduction -- Part I -- Part II -- Part III -- References -- Chapter 25 Modification, Emanation, andParinama-Vada in Medieval Theistic Vedanta and Kabbalah -- Notes -- Chapter 26 Advancing the Ritual-Liturgical Turn in Comparative Theology: Good Friday as a Case Study -- Introduction. , The Challenge of the Good Friday Liturgy -- Re-encountering the Good Friday Liturgy -- Revising the Good Friday Liturgy -- A Difficult Remainder: Baptized Jews in the Liturgy -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 27 Creative Fidelity in Expanding the Canon -- The Book of Deuteronomy -- The Politics Behind Josiah's Accession -- The Formation of Texts and Traditions into Scripture -- Moses the One and the Many -- The Present Shapes the Past -- The Tibetan Book of the Dead -- Backstory: Padmasambhava and Terma -- Discovery of the Tibetan Book of the Dead -- Evaluating These Traditions Together -- Chapter 28 Slow Reading of Beautiful Writing: Calligraphy as Vehicle for Comparative Theology -- Sacred Scribing -- Readers' Challenges -- Reading Handwritten Scriptures Interreligiously -- Close Reading of Calligraphed Display Items -- Slow Reading's Rewards -- Notes -- Chapter 29 Joy in the Earth: A Christian Cosmology Based on Agapic Nondualism -- Mentor and Mentee -- Divine Interdependence Sustains Cosmic Interdependence -- God's Expansive Love Invites Our Expansive Love -- God Mediates All Blessings Through Time -- The Trinity's Loving, Internal Relatedness Expresses Itself in the Natural Universe as Interdependence -- What is Nondualism? -- Nondualism Is Not Monism -- Nondualism Is Active Correlation -- Contrasts Are Not Opposites -- The Net of Indra -- Holiness Is Relatedness -- Nondualism Is Not Nihilism -- Nondualism Is Not a Perennial Philosophy -- God Embeds Beauty Within the Universe -- Cosmic Evolution Fosters the Experience of Beauty -- Natural Law Is Unbreakable to Allow Human Agency -- Moral Law Is Breakable to Allow Human Freedom -- Our Trustworthy God Sustains a Trustworthy Universe -- References -- Further Reading.

Additional Edition: Print version: Wiley Blackwell companion to comparative theology Hoboken, NJ, USA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2024 ISBN 9781394160570

Language: English

DOI: 10.1002/9781394160655

URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781394160655

URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781394160655

URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781394160655