Francis X. Clooney, SJ is Parkman Professor of Divinity and professor of comparative theology at Harvard Divinity School. After earning his doctorate in South Asian languages and civilizations, he taught at Boston College for twenty-one years before coming to Harvard. He is also a leading figure globally in the developing field of comparative theology.
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Part One Interreligious Reading (arranged according to the Christian Liturgical Year) Krishna in Advent I Krishna in Advent II Krishna in Advent III Swami Yogananda's Wisdom on the Birth of Christ Baby Krishna, Infant Christ at Christmas Singing the Baby Jesus in South India Yoga and Lent I Yoga and Lent II: Sede Vacante Yoga and Lent III: Empty Wisdom Yoga and Lent IV: To See as Wisdom Sees Yoga and Lent V: Ten Lenten Commandments Yoga and Lent VI: Sit, Breath, Let Go Yoga and Lent VII: The Contemplative Gaze Yoga and Lent VIII: The Samadhi of Jesus The Gita in Lent I The Gita in Lent II The Gita in Lent III: You Are the Temple The Gita in Lent IV: Waking Up, Slowly The Gita in Lent V: Learning To Do Nothing The Gita in Lent VI: The Worst in Us, in Holy Week The Gita in Lent VII: The Many Meanings of Sacrifice Stopping on Holy Thursday: How a Hindu Sacred Text Helps A Hindu View of Holy Thursday: Yogananda I A Hindu View of Good Friday: Yogananda II A Hindu View of Easter: Yogananda III From Darkness to Light: A Hindu Mantra during the Easter Vigil The Gita At Easter: Our Rising Up Prana, Yoga, Spirit, Pentecost At Pentecost the Spirit Blows, Interreligiously In Ordinary Time: The Sermon on the Mount: A Hindu Reading I Salt and Light: Swami on the Sermon II Jesus the Avatar: Swami on the Sermon III Nonviolence for Some: Swami on the Sermon IV On Being Perfect: Swami on the Sermon, V Do Not Be Anxious: Swami on the Sermon VI Jesus, Spiritual Master: Swami on the Sermon VII A Hindu Response To "Swami on the Sermon" Another Hindu Response To "Swami on the Sermon" Additional Experiments in Interreligious Reading How I Preach, after Hindu Learning: the Example of the Gospel of the 10 Lepers `The Study Qur'an' and the Battle Against Ignorance Studying the Qur'an as a Catholic Violence in the Qur'an Maryam, Mother of Jesus, in the Qur'an Jesus in the Qur'an: Pious, Obedient, Favored Servant of God Reading the Book of Mormon I Reading Mormon II: When Jesus Came to America Reading Mormon III: The Sermon on the Mount Reimagined Reading Mormon IV: Prophecies and Ecstasies Reading Mormon V: To the Future Part Two In Dialogue (arranged chronologically) So What, If Barack Hussein Obama Were a Muslim? The Hindus - Are Here! Contra Interreligious Ignorance Karl Barth, Thomas Merton: 40 Years Later The Loud Silencing of Roger Haight, SJ The Death of A Swami, and His Bliss A Hare Krishna Swami Tells All Pope Benedict's Most Generous Interreligious Vision A Hindu-Christian Conversation Begins A Hindu-Christian Conversation II: A Hindu View of Dialogue A Hindu-Christian Conversation III: A Christian Reply A Hindu-Christian Conversation IV: Some Final Exchanges Archbishop Nichols at the Hindu Temple: Idol-Worship? Obama, Gandhi, Jesus: Realism and Nonviolence From Rome, In Tibet: Interreligious Learning The Pope and Other Religions - Once Again... Could Matteo Ricci Have Done It Today? Meeting the Divine Mother: Amritanandamayi And Me A Hindu America? Raimon Panikkar, Rest in Peace Dominus Iesus 10 Years Later I Dominus Iesus 10 Years Later II Dominus Iesus 10 Years Later III Gandhi at 141 The Pope, the Jews - And the Pagans Easter and Our (Inter)Religious Imaginations Death of A God-Man: Sai Baba Dies At 85 Fr. Amorth's Yoga and the Devil To Convert a Hindu... Buddhist Christian Prayer/s Margaret Farley on the Kama Sutra The Interreligious Mary of Colm Toibin Slow Learning Indeed: My 40 Years of Learning Hinduism 9/11 - 1893: A Day of Interreligious Hope Is Allah Not Our God? Finding God in Uluru BKS Iyengar: Rest in Peace High Holy Days, Twice Over: When Jewish and Hindu Feasts Coincide. The Pope and the Hugging Guru Caste and Christianity: Old, New, Old Insights Compassion and Dialogue Shall Embrace Jews and Christians Together: On the Deep, Too-Brief Wisdom of Joseph Redfield Palmisano, S.J. Should Christians Fast This Ramadan? Hindus And Catholics Together in Washington, D.C. We Can't All Be Mother Teresa The Clash of Religions is Overstated: The Coming of Interfaith Awareness is Irreversible What Catholics Can Learn from A Hindu Saint on His 1,000th Birth Anniversary