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 -- latest update May 2011]
Comparative Theology
Barnes, Michael, Theology and the Dialogue of Religions (2002)
Clooney, Francis:
- Theology after Vedanta: An Experiment in Comparative Theology (1993);
- Hindu God, Christian God: How Reason Helps Break Down the Boundaries Between Religions. (2001);
- Comparative Theology: Deep Learning Across Religious Traditions (2010)
Cornille, Catherine:
- ed., Many Mansions? Multiple Religious Belonging and Christian Identity (2002);
- The Im-Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue (2008);
- ed., Song Divine: Christian Commentaries on the Bhagavadgita (2006);
- ed., Criteria of Discernment in Interreligious Dialogue (2009);
- ed., Interreligious Hermeneutics (2010) [introductions to the edited volumes]
D’Costa, Gavin:
- The Meeting of Religions and the Trinity (2000);
- Christianity and World Religions (2009)
Dupuis, Jacques, Toward a Christian theology of Religious Pluralism (1997)
Frederickx, James:
- Faith among Faiths (1999);
- Buddhists and Christians: Through Comparative Theology to Solidarity (2004)
Griffiths, Paul J., Problems of Religious Diversity (2001)
Heim, S. Mark:
- Salvations: Truth and Difference in Religions (1995);
- Depth of the Riches: a Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends (2001)
Hill Fletcher, Jeannine. Monopoly on Salvation? A Feminist Approach to Religious Pluralism (2005)
Knitter, Paul:
- Introducing the Theology of Religions (2002);
- Without Buddha I Could Not Be A Christian (2009)
OCollins, Gerald. Salvation for All (2008)
Panikkar, Raimon. The Intrareligious Dialogue (1999)
Phan, Peter. Being Religious Interreligiously (2004)
Thatamanil, John. The Immanent Divine: God, Creation and the Human Predicament (2006)
Ward, Keith [One of these volumes will normally suffice.]:
- Religion and Revelation (1994);
- Religion and Creation (1996);
- Religion and Human Nature (1998);
- Religion and Community (2000)
Theory and Method in the Comparative Study of Religions:
Eliade, Mircea:
- Patterns in Comparative Religion (1958);
- The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion (1969)
Flood, Gavin:
- The Ascetic Self. Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition (2004);
- Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religions (1999)
Masuzawa, Tomoko, The Invention of World Religions (2005)
McCutcheon, Russel, ed., The Insider-Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion (1999)
Neville, Robert [One of these volumes will normally suffice]:
- ed., The Human Condition (2000);
- Ultimate Realities (State University of New York Press, 2000);
- Religious Truth (2000)
Patton, Kimberly and Ray, Benjamin, ed. A Magic Still Dwells. Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age. (2000)
Said, Edward. Orientalism (1979)
Sharpe, Eric, Comparative Religion: A History (1975)
Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. The Meaning and End of Religion (1963)
Smith, Jonathan Z., Relating Religion. Essays in the Study of Religion (2004)
Van der Leeuw, Gerardus. Religion in Essence and Manifestation (1933)
