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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 | |