POSTCOLONIAL THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS

CONTENTS

Preface

List of abbreviations

Introduction

PART 1 Colonial entanglement

1. Thinking 'Religion' and 'The Religions' in European Modernity

Religious diversity in the perspective of the 'one true faith'

European cosmopolitanism

'Religion' in modernity

The 'objective' study of the religions

The 1893 World Parliament of Religions: Christianity, Science of Religion and a 'museum' of (living) faiths

Conclusion

2. Christian Thinking about the Religions

Thinking theology with religion: Protestant orthodoxy affirmed, Protestant orthodoxy transcended

Thinking theology with religion: reconceiving theological orthodoxy

Thinking religion as comparative theology

Thinking theology with comparative religion

Ernst Troeltsch: comparative religion meets Religionsgeschichtliche Schule Conclusion

3. The Modern Missionary Movement and the Religions

Catholic and Protestant missions in colonial context

Colonialism, Christianity and secularism

Orientalism, comparative religion and missionary attitudes to the religions

Theological understandings of mission informing missionary attitudes to the religions

World missionary conferences

Dialogue as an aspect of the Church's mission: Catholic and Protestant manifestations

Conclusion

4. Christian Theology of Religions'

Tillich and universal categories: from Christian theology to comparative religion and back

New categories define Christian theology of religions: Christianity - exclusivist or inclusivist?

'Pluralist' theology of religions and its critics

"Exclusivist' and 'inclusivist' approaches returned to Christian theology Conclusion

PART 2 Postcolonial disentangling

5. EuroAmerican Feminist Theology and Religious Plurality Locating feminist theology, field and subfield

EuroAmerican feminist theology and religious traditions 'Reimagining the divine'

Feminist theology and theology of religions

Eurocentrism in the spotlight: whiteness made visible through intercultural

global feminist theology

Conclusion

6. Asian Perspectives on Religious Diversity

Asian feminist theologies

Asian (male) theology and religious plurality

Conclusion

7. Particularity and Pluralism A particularist model for theology of religions

Introduction

A particularist model for Christian theology of religions

Interreligious engagement within the particularist-pluralist field Conclusion

8. A Trinitarian and Particularist Christian Theology of Religions Introduction

A trinitarian turn

Trinitarian ventures in theology of religions: Williams, D'Costa, Dupuis and Heim

Feminist trinitarian thinking

The Trinity and Asian theologies of religious pluralism Coda

Bibliography

Index