The New Comparative Theology Interreligious Insights from the Next Generation [Hardcover]

This book is an extended, critical reflection on the state of interrelgious dialogue in its modern version.

While there has been some important writing in the field of comparative theology, there has been no extended, critical reflection on the state of the discipline in its modern version, its strengths and problematic areas as it grows as a serious theological and scholarly discipline. This work of young scholars in conversation with one another, remedies this lack by, as it were, taking the discipline apart and putting it back together again.

The volume seeks to understand how to learn from multiple religions in a way that is truly open to those religions on their own terms, while yet being rooted in the tradition/s that we bring to our interreligious study.

Francis X. Clooney (Introduction) (Harvard University)

Kristin Beise Kiblinger (Winthrop University) - Theology of Religions Presuppositions and the Hegemony Worry in Comparative Theology

Hugh Nicholson (Coe College) - Comparative Theology, the Hegemony Problem, And the Danger of the False Dichotomy

Michelle Voss Roberts (Rhodes College) - Feminist Comparative Theology: Beyond the Hegemonies of Gender

Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier (Loyola Marymount University) - Comparative Theology and the Politics of Race/Ethnicity

John N. Sheveland (Gonzaga University) - Comparative Theology as Polyphony

Plus 3-4 more invited essays

James Fredericks (Loyola Marymount University), a senior scholar in the field, will be asked to write a response in conclusion to the volume.