• COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY: TOWARD A SEMIOTIC THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION 

  Maggioni, Pietro Lorenzo (Georgetown University, 2016)

  The recent proposals in the field of comparative theology distinguish themselves from the previous forms of the so-called “old comparative theology” in the following ways: they choose intentionally to deal with particularity, ...

• Interreligious Debates, Rational Theology, and the ʿUlamaʾ in the Public Sphere: Muḥammad Qāsim Nānautvī and the Making of Modern Islam in South Asia 

  Naeem, Fuad S. (Georgetown University, 2015)

  The nineteenth century was a time of tremendous change for Islamic intellectual traditions in South Asia in an era of colonialism, the decline of traditional authority, and the transformations of modernity. In spite of ...

• Dalit Christians and Caste Consciousness in Pakistan 

  Singha, Sara (Georgetown University, 2015)

  This study explores caste discrimination in Pakistan against untouchable (Dalit) converts to Christianity. During the nineteenth century in India, many Dalits converted to Christianity to escape caste persecution. In the ...

• A Place Between Two Places: The Qur'an's Intermediate State and the Early History of the Barzakh 

  Archer, George (Georgetown University, 2015)

  For those who believe in a future resurrection of the body, there naturally arises the question of what happens after death but before the end of time. This condition is the intermediate state. For most Muslims, the ...

• Knowing The Known Unknown: Comparing The Religious Epistemologies of Edward Schillebeeckx and Gendun Chopel In Response To Modernity 

  VonWachenfeldt, Jason M. (Georgetown University, 2014)

  What can one ever know for certain? On what basis or "authority" can one ever assert any knowledge of objective "truth"? Such questions are not only quite common within much of contemporary society but are indeed becoming ...

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