Comparative Theology

We were happy to host on Monday, March 6, the annual Comparative Theology Lecture. This series, funded by the Luce Foundation and reaching back now about ten years, explores through various disciplinary lenses and from the perspectives of various...

In CSWR's Annual Comparative Theology Lecture, Robert C. Neville, Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at the Boston University School of Theology, discusses the nature of comparative theology and the different approaches one could take: being...

On Thursday, March 3, Marianne Moyaert, Chair of Comparative Theology, Faculty of Theology, at VU Amsterdam, and Guest Lecturer Post-Holocaust Theology, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, at KU Leuven, delivered the 2015-2016 Comparative Theology...

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, continues addressing the fear and ignorance surrounding Islam by examining what the Quran says about violence. You can read the third installment in America.

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, continues his exegesis on Islam with a moving discourse on the meaning of compassion and mercy found in the Quran. You can read the second installment in...

Krish, alias Ramakrishnan Parameshwaran, presented excerpts from his recently published position paper on the meeting points of Medicine, Chaplaincy and Theology. The abstract of the publication, titled ‘You are Here’: Locating ‘Spirituality’ on the Map...

At this week’s World Religions Café, Axel Takács, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the study of religion, presented on a topic related to his dissertation, which is an exercise in Christian comparative theology with the Islamic religious tradition, and...

In this lecture, Nicholas J. Boylston examined the ways in which Francis X. Clooney’s methods of reading in comparative theology may be extended to non-theological work in the humanities. The lecture highlighted some of the issues that face the humanities...

The last of our five faculty book events of the semester took place on Monday, April 20 at 5:15 in the Sperry Room at Harvard Divinity School. This event highlighted His Hiding Place Is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence (Stanford...

On April 7 in the evening, Professor Laurel C. Schneider (Religious Studies, Religion and Culture, Vanderbilt University) lectured on the theme, “When the Book Is a Coyote: Some Challenges and Possibilities for Comparative Theology from the Study of...