Learning interreligiously : in the text, in the world / Francis X. Clooney, SJ.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clooney, Francis X. (Francis Xavier), 1950- author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religions--Relations.

Religions.

Relations.

Christianity and other religions--Hinduism.

Christianity and other religions.

Hinduism.

Hinduism--Relations--Christianity.

Christianity.

Spiritual exercises.

Physical Description:

xiii, 370 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2018]

Summary:

Learning Interreligiously offers a series of about one hundred short pieces, written online between 2008 and 2016. They are meant for a wide range of readers interested in interreligious dialogue, interreligious learning, and the realities of Hindu-Christian encounter today. The author, a Catholic priest who has spent more than forty years learning from Hinduism and observing religion as a plus and minus in today's world, has much to share with readers.

Contents:

Part I Interreligious Readings

Krishna in Advent I 3

Krishna in Advent II 7

Krishna in Advent III 11

Swami Yogananda's Wisdom on the Birth of Christ 15

Baby Krishna, Infant Christ at Christmas 17

Singing the Baby Jesus in South India 21

Yoga and Lent I 25

Yoga and Lent II: Sede Vacante 29

Yoga and Lent III: Empty Wisdom 33

Yoga and Lent IV: To See as Wisdom Sees 37

Yoga and Lent V: Ten Lenten Commandments 41

Yoga and Lent VI: Sit, Breathe, Let Go 45

Yoga and Lent VII: The Contemplative Gaze 49

Yoga and Lent VIII: The Samadhi of Jesus 53

The Gita in Lent I 57

The Gita in Lent II 61

The Gita in Lent III: You Are the Temple 67

The Gita in Lent IV: Waking Up, Slowly 71

The Gita in Lent V: Learning to Do Nothing 75

The Gita in Lent VI: The Worst in Us, in Holy Week 79

The Gita in Lent VII: The Many Meanings of Sacrifice 83

Stopping on Holy Thursday: How a Hindu Sacred Text Helps 87

A Hindu View of Holy Thursday: Yogananda I 91

A Hindu View of Good Friday: Yogananda II 95

A Hindu View of Easter: Yogananda III 99

From Darkness to Light: A Hindu Mantra during the Easter Vigil 103

The Gita at Easter: Our Rising Up 107

Prana, Yoga, Spirit, Pentecost 111

At Pentecost the Spirit Blows, Interreligiously 115

In Ordinary Time: The Sermon on the Mount, a Hindu Reading I 119

Salt and Light: Swami on the Sermon II 123

Jesus the Avatar: Swami on the Sermon III 127

Nonviolence for Some: Swami on the Sermon IV 131

On Being Perfect: Swami on the Sermon V 135

Do Not Be Anxious: Swami on the Sermon VI 137

Jesus, Spiritual Master: Swami on the Sermon VII 139

A Hindu Response to "Swami on the Sermon" 143

Another Hindu Response to "Swami on the Sermon" 147

Additional Experiments in Interreligious Reading

How I Preach, after Hindu Learning: The Example of the Gospel of the Ten Lepers 153

The Study Quran and the Battle against Ignorance 157

Studying the Qur'an as a Catholic II 161

Violence in the Qur'an 165

Maryam, Mother of Jesus, in the Qur'an 169

Jesus in the Qur'an: Pious, Obedient, Favored Servant of God 175

Reading the Book of Mormon, Part I 181

Reading Mormon II: When Jesus Came to America 185

Reading Mormon III: The Sermon on the Mount Reimagined 189

Reading Mormon IV: Prophecies and Ecstasies 193

Reading Mormon V: To the Future 199

Part II In Dialogue

So What, If Barack Hussein Obama Were a Muslim? 205

The Hindus Are-Here! 207

Contra Interreligious Ignorance 211

Karl Barth, Thomas Merton: Forty Years Later 213

The Loud Silencing of Roger Haight, SJ 215

The Death of a Swami, and His Bliss 219

A Hare Krishna Swami Tells All 223

Pope Benedict's Most Generous Interreligious Vision 227

A Hindu-Christian Conversation Begins 231

A Hindu-Christian Conversation II: A Hindu View of Dialogue 233

A Hindu-Christian Conversation III: A Christian Reply 237

A Hindu-Christian Conversation IV: Some Final Exchanges 241

Archbishop Nichols at the Hindu Temple: Idol Worship? 245

Obama, Gandhi, Jesus: Realism and Nonviolence 249

From Rome, in Tibet: Interreligious Learning 253

The Pope and Other Religions-Once Again ... 257

Could Matteo Ricci Have Done It Today? 261

Meeting the Divine Mother: Amritanandamayi and Me 265

A Hindu America? 269

Raimon Panikkar, Rest in Peace 273

Dominus Jesus Ten Years Later I 275

Dominus Jesus Ten Years Later II 279

Dominus Jesus Ten Years Later III 283

Gandhi at 141 287

The Pope, the Jews-and the Pagans 291

Easter and Our (Inter)Religious Imaginations 295

Death of a God-Man: Sai Baba Dies at Eighty-Five 299

Fr. Amorth's Yoga and the Devil 303

To Convert a Hindu ... 307

Buddhist Christian Prayer(s) 311

Margaret Farley on the Kama Sutra 313

The Interreligious Mary of Colm Tóibín 317

9/11-1893: A Day of Interreligious Hope 321

Is Allah Not Our God? 323

Finding God in Uluru 327

BKS Iyengar: Rest in Peace 331

High Holy Days, Twice Over: When Jewish and Hindu Feasts Coincide 335

The Pope and the Hugging Guru 337

Caste and Christianity: Old, New, Old Insights 339

Compassion and Dialogue Shall Embrace 343

Jews and Christians Together: On the Deep, Too-Brief Wisdom of Joseph Redfield Palmisano, SJ 347

Should Christians Fast This Ramadan? 351

Hindus and Catholics Together in Washington, DC 355

We Can't All Be Mother Teresa 359

The Clash of Religions Is Overstated: The Coming of Interfaith Awareness Is Irreversible 363

What Catholics Can Learn from a Hindu Saint on His Thousandth Birth Anniversary 367.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

150641771X

9781506417714

OCLC:

1012816912