Books

Ayoub, Mahmoud

2007. (ed. Irfan A. Omar) A Muslim View of Christianity: Essays on Dialogue by Mahmoud Ayoub. Marynoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Clooney, Francis X.

1993. Theology After Vedanta: An Experiment in Comparative Theology. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

2001. Hindu God, Christian God: How Reason Helps Break Down the Boundaries between Religions. New York: Oxford.

2005. Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary. New York: Oxford.

2010. Comparative Theology: Deep Learning Across Religious Borders. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell.

2010. (ed.) The New Comparative Theology: Interreligious Insights from the Next Generation. New York: T & T Clark.

Cobb Jr., John B.

1999. (Paul F. Knitter, ed.) Transforming Christianity and the World: A Way Beyond Absolutism and Relativism. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Cornille, Catherine

2002. Many Mansions?: Multiple Religious Belonging and Christian Identity. Marynoll, NY: Orbis Books. [2010, Wipf and Stock, Reprint].

2008. The Im-Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue. New York: Crossroad.

2009. (ed.) Criteria of Discernment in Interreligious Dialogue. Interreligious Dialogue Series 1. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock.

2010. (ed. and Christopher Conway, ed.) Interreligious Hermeneutics. Interreligious Dialogue Series 2. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock.

2011. (ed. and Glenn Willis, ed.) The World Market and Interreligious Dialogue. Interreligious Dialogue Series 3. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock.

2012. (ed. and Stephanie Corigliano, ed.) Interreligious Dialogue and Cultural Change. Interreligious Dialogue Series 4. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock.

2013. (ed. and Jillian Maxey, ed.) Women and Interreligious Dialogue. Interreligious Dialogue Series 5. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock.

2013. (ed.) The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious Dialogue. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell.

2020. Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.

D’Costa, Gavin

1990. (ed.) Christian Uniqueness Reconsidered. Marynoll, NY: Orbis Books. [This was a direct response to Hick/Knitter’s 1987 book The Myth of Christian Uniqueness].

Dean, Thomas

1995. (ed.) Religious Pluralism and Truth: Essays on Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Diller, Jeanine

2013. (ed. and Asa Kashner, ed.) Models of God and Alternate Ultimate Realities. Dordrecht: Springer.

Dupuis, Jacques

1997. Toward A Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism. Marynoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Eck, Diana

2001. A New Religious America: How A "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation. New York: HarperCollins.

Fredericks, James L.

1999. Faith Among Faiths: Christian Theology and Non-Christian Religions. New York: Paulist Press.

2004. Buddhists and Christians: Through Comparative Theology to Solidarity. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Hedges, Paul

2008. (ed. and Alan Race, ed.) Christian Approaches to Other Faiths. London: SCM Press.

2010. Controversies in Interreligious Dialogue and the Theology of Religions. London: SCM Press.

Heim, S. Mark

1995. Salvations: Truth and Difference in Religion. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

2019. Crucified Wisdom: Theological Reflections on Christ and the Bodhisattva. Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions 6. New York: Fordham.

Hick, John

(full publication list on his website)

1973. God and the Universe of Faiths. London: Macmillan. [Reissued 1993, Oxford: Oneworld]

1987. (ed. and Paul Knitter, ed.) The Myth of Christian Uniqueness: Toward a Pluralistic Theology of Religions. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. [2004, Wipf and Stock reprint]

1989. An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent. New Haven, CT: Yale. [2004, Second Edition]

1995. A Christian Theology of Religions: The Rainbow of Faiths. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press.

Johnston Largen, Kristen

2013. Finding God Among Our Neighbors: An Interfaith Systematic Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

Knitter, Paul F.

1985. No Other Name?: A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

2002. Introducing Theologies of Religion. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

2005. (ed.) The Myth of Religious Superiority: A Multifaith Exploration. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Leirivk, Oddbjorn

2014. Interreligious Studies: A Relational Approach to Religious Activism and the Study of Religion. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

Martin, Jerry

2020. Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative. London: Routledge.

Moyaert, Marianne

2015. (ed. and Joris Geldof editor) Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue: Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

2019. Interreligious Relations and the Negotiation of Ritual Boundaries: Explorations in Interrituality. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Neville, Robert Cummings.

2013. Ultimates: Philosophical Theology Volume One. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

2014. Existence: Philosophical Theology Volume Two. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

2015. Religion: Philosophical Theology Volume Three. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Panikkar, Raimon

(By far the most prolific of any writer on this website. Full works being published in the Opera Omnia series.)

1978. The Intrareligious Dialogue. New York: Paulist Press. [1999, Revised and enlarged edition]

1979. Myth, Faith and Hermeneutics: Cross-Cultural Studies. New York: Paulist Press.

1981. The Unknown Christ of Hinduism: Towards an Ecumenical Christophany. Revised and enlarged edition. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. [original, 1964 London]

1993. (ed. Scott Eastham) The Cosmotheandric Experience: Emerging Religious Consciousness. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

2010. The Rhythm of Being: The Gifford Lectures. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Patel, Eboo

2018. (ed. and Jennifer Howe Peace and Noah J. Silverman editors) Interreligous/Interfaith Studies: Defining a New Field. Boston: Beacon Press.

Phan, Peter

2004. Being Religious Interreligiously: Asian Perspectives on Interfaith Dialogue. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Prabhu, Joseph

1996. The Intercultural Challenge of Raimon Panikkar. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Race, Alan

1983. Christians and Religious Pluralism: Patterns in the Christian Theology of Religions. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Rhodes, Jerusha Tanner (Lamptey)

2014. Never Wholly Other: A Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism. New York: Oxford.

Schmidt-Leukal, Perry

2016. (ed.) Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology: Comparison Revisited. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

2017. Religious Pluralism & Interreligious Theology: The Gifford Lectures - An Extended Edition. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Smith, Wilfred Cantwell

1962. The Meaning and End of Religion. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press. [1991, Fortress Press, Reprint]

1981. Towards A World Theology: Faith and the Comparative History of Religion. London: Macmillan.

Swidler, Leonard

1987. Towards a Universal Theology of Religion. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Thatamanil, John

2006. The Immanent Divine: God, Creation, and the Human Predicament. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

2020. Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity. New York: Fordham.

Tracy, David

1975. Blessed Rage For Order: The New Pluralism in Theology. New York: The Seabury Press. [1996, The University of Chicago, Reprint]

1981. The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism. New York: Crossroad. [1998, Herder & Herder, Reprint]

1987. Plurality and Ambiguity: Hermeneutics, Religion, Hope. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Troeltsch, Ernst

(Important historical lecture from 1901)

1971. (trans. David Reid) The Absoluteness of Christianity and the History of Religions. [2005, Westminster John Knox, Reprint paperback]

Velez de Cea, J. Abraham

2013. The Buddha and Religious Diversity. London: Routledge.

Ward, Keith

1994. Religion & Revelation: A Theology of Revelation in the World's Religions. New York: Oxford.