The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Comparative Theology: A Festschrift in Honor of Francis X. Clooney, SJ (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion)

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
	Chapter 30 Perceiving Divinity, Cultivating Wonder: A Christian–Islamic Comparative Theological Essay on Balthasar’s Gestalt
		Prologue
		The Beautiful
		Balthasar’s Gestalt, the Spiritual Senses, and His Hermeneutics
		The Gospel Passage in the Context of Later Christological Debates
		Concealing and Restricting Divinity: An Interreligious Reading with the Islamic Tradition
		Conclusion: Comparative Insights
			How Do Certain Christologies Conceal God?
			In What Way Do We Treat Christ Like a What?
			How Do We Remain Dualistic in Our Christology and Theological Anthropology?
			How Do We Refuse the Wonder and Bewilderment of God’s Revelation?
			How Does Our Physical Relationship with the Material Order, with Power, Blind Our Spiritual Senses?
		Epilogue
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 31 Paradoxes of Desire in St John of the Cross and Solomon ibn Gabirol: Thinking with Poetry in Comparative Theology
		Francis X. Clooney and Sacred Poetry: Prolegomena
		Confessions of a Guilty Bystander
		John of the Cross and Solomon ibn Gabirol: Brief Introduction
		Cántico Espiritual A1/B1
		Ibn Gabirol’s ršut: verses 1 and 2
		Cántico A 12/B 13
		Ibn Gabirol’s ršut: verses 3–5
		Some Reflections
		Acknowledgment
		Notes
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
		Introduction
		Why Compare Religions?
		Constructing Tradition
			The Gaudya Vaisnava Lineage
			Sr Vaisnava and Catholic Lineage
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
			Primary
			Secondary
	Chapter 33 Learning Interreligiously as Public Theology: Limits and Possibilities for Institutional Leaders
		Learning Interreligiously
		The Article
		Initial Methodological Learnings
		What Happened Next?
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 34 Comparative Theology and Public Theology: In Search of a Responsible Theology Today
		A Mentor and Friend
		Comparative Theology and Public Theology
		Comparative Rationality
		Spirituality: Personal and Public
		Affectivity
		Concluding Remarks
		Notes
	Chapter 35 God Meets Us There: Prison as True Home for the Christian Comparative Theologian
		References
Part VII The Past, Present, and Future of Comparative Theology
	Chapter 36 Comparative Theology Beyond Religionization
		Comparative Theology as Rectification
		Religionization as an Analytical Concept Enhancing the Critical Potential of Comparative Theology
			Comparative Theology: Old and New
			What is Religionization?
		The Work of Rectification
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 37 Asking an Unusual Question of Kabir and Kazi Nazrul Islam
		Nazrul’s Mixed Style
		Nazrul the Pioneer of Muslim Regeneration
		The Hindu-Saturated World of Nazrul Islam
		“I Have Done It, Aware of the Consequences”
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 38 Comparative Theology avant la lettre?: A Muslim “Deep Reading” of the Ramayana in Early Modern South Asia
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 39 Creativity and Resistance in Comparative Theology: Lessons from Eighteenth-Century Korea
		Confucian–Catholic Encounter: A Narrow Window for Comparative Learning (1784–1801)
		A Fierce Middle: Dasan’s Confucian–Catholic Comparative Theology
		Acknowledgment
		Note
	Chapter 40 In Praise of Artisans: Ramon Marti, Georges Anawati, and the Importance of Languages
		Note
		References
	Chapter 41 Lectio Divina and Comparative Reading in the History of Christian–Muslim Encounters
		Medieval Latin Readers of the Qur’an
		Modern Lectio Divina of the Bible and the Qur’an
		Notes
	Chapter 42 Vicarious Voyage: What Difference Does Comparative Theology Make for Theology?
		Comparative Theology and Reception
		Modes of Reception of Comparative Theology
		Comparative Theology as Contemplative Theology
		Reception of the Fact of Comparative Theological Practice
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 43 Is There or Shall We Need a “Home” for Comparative Theologies?: A Ru (Confucian) Response to Francis X. Clooney
		Enthusiasm
		Terms
		Critique
		Construction
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 44 Comparative Theology After Clooney
		Notes
		References
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