Francis X Clooney

Datos Biográficos

ID498044
NOMBREFrancis X Clooney
NOMBRESFrancis X
APELLIDOClooney
FIRMACLOONEY F X
AFILIACIONESHarvard University Press
ORCID0000-0002-6582-2318
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS89
TOTAL DE CITAS9
TOTAL COMO AUTOR88
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1985
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Hindu Poetry and the Project of an Inter-Spiritual Catholic Theology

    Open AccessFrancis X ClooneyARTICLEJournal of Global Catholicism2026

    This article engages the work of the Indian south Indian Tamil-language Vaiṣṇava poet saints known as the Alvārs. The article specifically focuses the First HundredHoly Linked verses of Poykai Ālvār to argue for inter-spiritual learning between Catholics and Hindus. The article concludes with personal reflections on this encounter within the context of the global Catholic Church

  • Jesuit Missions in Coastal and South India (1543–1773)

    Open AccessFrancis X ClooneyARTICLEJournal of Jesuit Studies2026

  • Hinduism Deconstructed and Restored

    Open AccessFrancis X ClooneyARTICLEInternational Journal of Hindu…2025

  • Maṇipravāḷa as an Instrument of Interpretation in Uttamūr Vīrarākavacāriyas Reading of the Tirucantaviruttam

    Open AccessFrancis X ClooneyARTICLEJournal of Indian Philosophy2025

  • Worrying Farquhar's Scholarship about Hinduism

    Francis X ClooneyARTICLECommon Knowledge2025

    Farquhar (1861 – 1929) was a missionary scholar who spent more than thirty years in India, as student secretary and then literary secretary of the YMCA India. He traveled widely for the sake of learning about lived Hinduism and was a popular lecturer in Christian circles. He believed that knowledge of Hinduism was necessary for a proper preaching of the Gospel. Among his well-known and influential books are Permanent Lessons of the Gita (1903), G…

  • The Comparative Theologian at Home and Abroad

    Francis X ClooneyARTICLEToronto Journal of Theology2023

    [Figure: see text] This essay addresses the question of the home of the comparative theologian, arguing that it is not inappropriate for a theologian to have a home, whence the comparative theological work is undertaken, and to which one returns after deep inter-religious learning. Inter-religious learning impresses upon us the value of having a home; certain poetic traditions make it almost impossible to imagine writing from nowhere, without a s…

  • In Love with Islam, Believing in Jesus, written by Paolo Dall’Oglio

    Francis X ClooneyARTICLEInternational Journal of Asian…2023

  • On the Power of Imperfect Words

    Open AccessFrancis X ClooneyARTICLESophia2022

  • Caste

    Francis X ClooneyARTICLECommon Knowledge2022

    For my entire adult life, I have been engaged in study of the Hindu traditions: most of my writing has been perched on the border between my own Catholic tradition and Hindu traditions, and so too my thirty-eight years of teaching have been almost entirely given over to Hindu-Christian themes or simply to the close reading of Hindu texts. As a Jesuit—baptized Francis Xavier, in honor of the first Jesuit to arrive in India in 1542—I also have been…

  • Lessons Learned

    Open AccessFrancis X ClooneyARTICLEContemporary Jewry2021

  • Jesuits and Jews, and the way we dare to think

    Open AccessFrancis X ClooneyARTICLEPhilosophy & Social Criticism2021Referencias: 3

    This essay explores James Bernauer’s Jesuit Kaddish as an extended reflection on the centuries-long troubled relationship between Jesuits and Jews, with attention to egregious instances of moral failure on the part of Jesuits. It investigates too Bernauer’s highlighting of instances of Jesuit spiritual resistance both to evil and to the undue prudence of cautious institutions. Forthright in weaving his own intellectual journey into the book, Bern…

  • Jesus in Asia

    Francis X ClooneyARTICLECommon Knowledge2021

    This learned volume, by a distinguished professor of biblical studies, can be read and assessed on two levels. First, to my knowledge it is the most detailed and nuanced presentation ever made of the reception of the person of Jesus in Asia (with or without the appellation “Christ,” and often enough without Christianity). Second, Sugirtharajah is doing much more than adding new information about Jesus's presence in Asia. Himself an interpreter of…

  • Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray

    Francis X ClooneyARTICLECommon Knowledge2021

    Book Review| January 01 2021 Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray Gray, John, Seven Types of Atheism (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), 176 pp. Francis X. Clooney, SJ Francis X. Clooney, SJ Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (1): 106–107. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8723105 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Francis X. Clooney; Seven Types of At…

  • How to Do Comparative Theology

    Francis X Clooney, Klaus Von StoschBOOKHow to Do Comparative Theology2020

    How To Do Comparative Theology contributes to the maturation of method in the field of comparative theological studies, learning across religious borders, by bringing together essays drawing on different Christian traditions of learning, Judaism and Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, the wisdom of senior scholars, and also insights from a younger generation of scholars who have studied theology and religion in new ways, and are more attuned to the lan…

  • Introduction to Comparative Theology in Australia and Asia

    Francis X ClooneyARTICLEInternational Journal of Asian…2020

    Comparative theology is a form of theology, and as such, a matter of “faith seeking understanding.” Like other forms of Christian theology, it is indebted to scripture and tradition, attentive to texts, and also to images, ritual practice, piety, and experience. Like other forms of theological reflection, it also needs to be contextually nuanced, lest it be too much identified with the North American and Western European academic contexts. The gr…

  • Gerald James Larson

    Open AccessFrancis X ClooneyARTICLEJournal of Dharma Studies2020

  • Rāmānuja’s Nityagrantham (“Manual of Daily Worship”)

    Open AccessFrancis X ClooneyARTICLEInternational Journal of Hindu…2020

  • Learning from a Medieval Hindu Theologian’s Manual of Daily Worship

    Francis X ClooneyARTICLEInternational Journal of Asian…2019

    The Manual of Daily Worship ( Nityagrantham ) of Rāmānuja (1017–1137) is a work of applied, liturgical theology, in a major Hindu tradition. It describes the daily worship of an advanced devotee, melding together purifications, ritual offerings, recitation of mantras, meditations, and acts of surrender to God. As such, it richly fills out the spiritual and intellectual profile of Rāmānuja as an exemplar of integral spiritual, intellectual, and pr…

  • The Experience of God

    Francis X Clooney, Jeffrey M PerlARTICLECommon Knowledge2019

    Research Article| April 01 2019 The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss by David Bentley Hart Hart, David Bentley, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), 365 pp. Francis X. Clooney, SJ Francis X. Clooney, SJ Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 405–409. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7312141 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Shar…

  • Translating Catechisms, Translating Cultures

    Open AccessFrancis X ClooneyARTICLEJournal of Jesuit Studies2018

    Flüchter and Wirbser are to be congratulated for convening a superb group of scholars for a volume that wonderfully advances our understanding of three themes indicated in its title.First, we learn much about "translating catechisms," their composition and translation in multiple settings far from the places in which they were composed.Second, we can better see the (im)possibility of "translating cultures"-the West to the world, the world to the …

  • Alienation, Xenophilia, and Coming Home

    Francis X ClooneyARTICLECommon Knowledge2018

    William Wallace (1863–1922) came to India as an Evangelical Anglican missionary, worked in the Calcutta region from 1889 to 1896, and quickly became disillusioned about the missionary approach and the fruits of missionary activity. After his initial stay of seven years in India, he returned to England, then moved back to Ireland where he had been born, and, after much discernment, converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Jesuit. He returned to…

  • Reading Religiously across Religious Borders

    Open AccessFrancis X Clooney, Francis ClooneyARTICLEReligions2018Referencias: 3

    Oliver Freiberger has done us the great service of drawing our attention to how comparativists do their comparative work. Issues of method-the "methodical aspects"-of course matter greatly in the actual doing of comparison, even if the scholar is not interested in theoretical discussions of method per se. One has to know one's craft, in order to do it well, and to be clear in practice about how to proceed: "How comparison actually works as a meth…

  • How to Do Comparative Theology

    Open AccessFrancis X Clooney, Klaus Von StoschBOOKHow to Do Comparative Theology2017

  • The Bhagavad Gita

    Francis X ClooneyARTICLEReligions of South Asia2016

    The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography, by Richard Davis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. 256 pp., £18.95 (hb). ISBN 978-0-691-13996-8 (hb)

  • Tastes of the Divine

    Francis X ClooneyARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2016

    Tastes of the Divine is the 2015 winner of the AAR's award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the category of “Constructive-Reflective Studies.” The commendation read at the annual meeting states in part, “ Tastes of the Divine is an elegant work in comparative theology, which expands this area by focusing on the affective elements of traditions, rather than on texts alone. ... The book communicates complex ideas clearly and beautifully, …