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An Ethnographic Turn in Comparative Theology?

Ecclesial Practices, 2021
This review essay analyses three books of comparative theology between Christian and Hindu traditions in South Asia in order to address two interrelated questions: 1) do they hint at an ‘ethnographic turn’ in comparative theology?
Ken Chitwood
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Minjung Theology and Comparative Theology for Transculturation: Case Study in Minjung and Dalit on Suffering

Madang: International Journal of Contextual Theology in East Asia
This article argues that the transnational turn in Minjung theology must begin not with exporting discourse but with reforming method. It proposes comparative theology as the most fitting craft for this reform— an approach that joins close bilingual ...
Shin-Eon Lee
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Comparative Theology as a Postcolonial Hermeneutics: A Global Historical Approach to the Encounter between Augustinian Christianity and Tiantai Buddhism

Buddhist-Christian Studies
:Comparative theology aims at seeing one's own tradition and the other in light of each other, which calls for a solid methodological foundation. Comparative theology can benefit from a global historical approach that involves the hermeneutic project of ...
Eunyoung Hwang
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A Theology of the Religions and/or a Comparative Theology?

Horizons, 1999
AbstractAn important but little-noticed debate is quietly going on between some theologians of the religions and some comparative theologians. The former, without negating the need for comparative theology, insist on the need for a theology of the religions; the latter call for a moratorium on construction of theologies of religion and a focus instead ...
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Paths to Wholeness: Comparative Theology and the Ecumenical Project

Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 2020
PRECIS:This essay explores four main points in outlining the changing relation between ecumenism and interfaith engagement. First, it describes an ironic shift: Where once world mission was the common motive for Christian ecumenical engagement, now ...
S. M. Heim
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How to Do Comparative Theology

, 2020
understanding has been a subject of debate. Some think of theological perspectives are of themselves inherently too narrow to support interreligious learning, and argue for an approach that is neutral or, on a more popular level, grounded simply open ...
S. J. Clooney, Klaus von Stosch
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Theorising a Decolonising Asian Hermeneutic for Comparative Theology

International Journal of Asian Christianity, 2020
This paper advances some ways in which Asian perspectives challenge the regnant discourse of comparative theology. It sets out some key aspects of the postcolonial critique of comparative theology, and shows how conceptions of “religion” in the ...
P. Hedges
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Comparative Theology after “Religion”

2010
This chapter employs genealogy of religion, critical race theory, and Nagarjuna’s Madhyamaka Buddhism to call into question the way in which uninterrogated notions about “religion” and “religions” compromise theologies of religious diversity. At the heart of the argument is the claim that both the categories “religions” and “races” were invented to ...
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Becoming a Christian and Practicing Comparative Theology for a Korean Theologian

, 2020
Koreans live in a religiously pluralistic and tolerant society, and the idea of an exclusive membership of one religion is still foreign to many. In the first part of this paper, I will explore the development of the concept of “religion” and “religious
Yongho Lee
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Introduction to Comparative Theology in Australia and Asia

International Journal of Asian Christianity, 2020
Comparative theology is a form of theology, and as such, a matter of “faith seeking understanding.” Like other forms of Christian theology, it is indebted to scripture and tradition, attentive to texts, and also to images, ritual practice, piety, and ...
F. Clooney
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