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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Starting Points | |
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| Religious Diversity and Comparative Theology | |
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| Diversity around Us | |
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| Diversity within Us | |
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| Comparative Theology as a Response to Twenty-first-Century Religious Diversity | |
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| Distinguishing Comparative Theology from Related Disciplines | |
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| Comparative Theology and the Academic Study of Religions | |
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| Comparative Theology and Interreligious Dialogue | |
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| Comparative Theology and the Theology of Religions | |
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| Comparative Theology Autobiographically Grounded | |
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| On the Limits of This Book | |
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| Looking Ahead | |
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| In Generations Past: Some Ancestors to Today's Comparative Theology | |
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| Comparative Theology and the Long History of Christian Interreligious Reflection | |
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| Western Jesuit Scholars in India | |
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| Comparative Theology as a Discipline (1699-) | |
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| A Moderate Criticism of Missionary Scholarship and the Older Comparative Theology | |
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| At the End of the Era | |
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| Comparative Theology Today | |
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| David Tracy | |
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| Keith Ward | |
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| Robert C. Neville | |
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| A Note on Raimon Panikkar | |
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| James Fredericks | |
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| New Directions | |
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| From Theory (Back) to Practice | |
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| Doing Theology Comparatively | |
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| From Theory to Practice | |
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| The Practice of (Comparative) Religious Reading | |
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| Intelligent Reading | |
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| Commentary as a Religious Practice | |
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| Interreligious Commentary | |
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| Leaving Room for Other Readers and Their Readings | |
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| Necessarily Elite Choices | |
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| Getting Particular: A Christian Studies Hinduism | |
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| The Importance of Focus | |
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| (Self)Identifying This Particular Comparative Theologian | |
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| Making a Map, Marking the Field: Hinduism in Brief | |
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| Getting Particular: Mimamsa, Vedanta, and Srivaisnavism | |
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| Appreciating Similarities | |
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| Theistic Hinduism as a Useful and Comfortable Focus | |
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| Theology as a Hindu Discipline | |
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| Comparative Theology in Hinduism and Other Traditions | |
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| My Comparative Theology, Indebted to Hindu Theologies | |
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| "Learning to See": Comparative Practice and the Widening of Theological Vision | |
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| Plenary Address at the Catholic Theology Society of America, 2003 | |
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| Near a Goddess | |
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| Devi's Beauty, Devi's Pleasure | |
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| Rediscovering Mary | |
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| Mary and Her Son Jesus, through Muslim Eyes | |
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| Sojourner Truth's Liberating God | |
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| All in Christ, but Still All | |
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| Vocation | |
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| After "Learning to See" | |
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| The Fruits of Comparison | |
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| Theology After Comparison | |
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| Comparative Theology and the Larger Work of Theology | |
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| The Multiple Responsibilities of the Comparative Theologian | |
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| Some Theological Presuppositions Implicit in Comparative Theology | |
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| Comparative Theological Learning, in Particular | |
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| The Imago Dei and Our Destiny in Bliss | |
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| What "Narayana" Might Mean for the Christian | |
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| Encountering Goddesses | |
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| Comparative Theology and the Intensification of Devotion | |
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| Theology on a Smaller Scale | |
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| "God for Us" | |
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| "God for Us": An Essay | |
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| A Verse, a Clue | |
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| What Hindus Thought about the Verse | |
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| Living the Verse | |
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| The Verse and its Wider Context | |
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| An Aside on How to See God and on How God Wills to Be Seen | |
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| Noticing One's First Citizenship: Reflection on Ignatian Insight and My Home Citizenship | |
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| What Ignatius Had to Say | |
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| Some Contemporary Views of the Intensification and Emptying of the Imagination in the Spiritual Exercises | |
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| Multiple Religious Belonging, Human but Also Divine | |
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| "God for Us" as Comparative Theology | |
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| Comparative Writer, Comparative Reader | |
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| The Comparative Theologian Transformed | |
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| The Comparative Theologian as Marginal Person | |
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| The Comparative Theologian's New Community | |
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| Tasks and Opportunities for the Reader | |
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| Beyond This Book | |
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| Notes | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |