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A Sakta Method for Comparative Theology: Upside-Down, Inside-Out offers a Sakta thealogy of religions and a Sakta anti-method, method, and a-method for comparative theology. For Saktas, the thread of religious diversity is part of the rich tapestry of cosmological, topographical, environmental, and bio-diversity, which is the Goddess’ collective (sama??i) and individuated (vya??i) forms. Sakta religious diversity is "complex, layered, and paradoxical, allowing ontological similarities, ontological differences, and irreducibility." A Sakta thealogy of religious diversity transcends humans and the borders of religion, politics, society, and speciesism.
New Books Network podcast on New Books in Indian Religions, a conversation between Raj Balkaran and author Pravina Rodrigues: https://newbooksnetwork.com/a-sakta-method-for-comparative-theology
Table of Contents
Personal Prelude
Introduction
Chapter One: The Case of the Missing Interlocutors: Methodological Issues in Hindu–Christian Studies
Chapter Two: One, None, Many: A Sakta Ontology
Chapter Three: A Sakta Thealogy of Religious Diversity
Chapter Four: Upside-Down, Inside-Out: A Sakta Method for Comparative Theology
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
Product details
Published | Dec 08 2023 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 180 |
ISBN | 9781666905052 |
Imprint | Lexington Books |
Illustrations | 2 tables |
Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
Series | Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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Rodrigues takes a full-bodied approach to theology of religions and comparative theology. She pinpoints the postcolonial, intergenerational trauma that is often missed in conversations about the relative absence of Hindu interlocutors. Offering her own voice to these disciplines, she roots a Sakta thealogy of religions in the divine as one, none, and many; and she concludes with promising notes toward a holistic method for comparative theology.
Michelle Voss, Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology
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A Sakta Method for Comparative Theology is a welcome addition to the maturing field of comparative theology. The Sakta tradition of the Goddess, most often neglected by theologians, points us to a more sensual and sensitive interreligious learning that corresponds to the realities of lived religion. Pravina Rodrigues is to be congratulated for this pioneering study, a book that is both scholarly and personal.
Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Harvard Divinity School