General Reading List for the Comprehensive Examination in Comparative Theology and the Theology of Religions, themes and methods
[This reading list is provisional and will be revised and updated regularly]
Barnes, Michael, Theology and the Dialogue of Religions (2002)
Clooney, Francis. Theology after Vedanta: An Experiment in Comparative Theology (1993); Seeing through Texts: Doing Theology among the Srivaisnavas of South India (1996); Hindu God, Christian God: How Reason Helps Break Down the Boundaries Between Religions. (2001)
Cornille, Catherine, ed., Many Mansions? Multiple Religious Belonging and Christian Identity (2002)
D’Costa, Gavin, The Meeting of Religions and the Trinity (2000)
Dupuis, Jacques, Toward a Christian theology of Religious Pluralism (1997)
Flood, Gavin, The Ascetic Self. Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition (2004)
Griffiths, Paul J., Problems of Religious Diversity (2001)
Hefling, Charles, and Pope, Stephen, Sic et Non: Essays on Dominus Iesus (2002)
Heim, S. Mark, Salvations: Truth and Difference in Religions (1995); Depth of the Riches: a Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends (2001)
Patton, Kimberly and Ray, Benjamin, ed. A Magic Still Dwells. Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age. (2000)
Knitter, Paul, Introducing the Theology of Religions (2002)
Masuzawa, Tomoko, The Invention of World Religions (2005)
McCutcheon, Russel, ed., The Insider-Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion (1999)
Neville, Robert, ed., The Human Condition (2000); Ultimate Realities (State University of New York Press, 2000); Religious Truth (2000) [One of these volumes will normally suffice.]
Smith, Jonathan Z., Relating Religion. Essays in the Study of Religion (2004)
Sharpe, Eric, Comparative Religion: A History (1975)
Ward, Keith. Religion and Revelation (1994); Religion and Creation (1996); Religion and Human Nature (1998); Religion and Community (2000) [One of these volumes will normally suffice.]
