Postgraduate Reading Lists

MRes Christianity & Interreligious Relations

Preparatory Reading List

For RES401 Research Methods in Theology:

Some introductory reading for background issues:

Veli-Matti Karkkainen, An Introduction to the Theology of Religions, (Dormers Grove: InterVarsityPress, 2003).

Chad Meister (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity, (Oxford: OUP; 2011).

Catherine Cornille, The Im-Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue, (New York: Herder; 2008).

For those wishing to take ABR401 Religion and the Religions in the Modern World:

Introductory reading:

Victoria S. Harrison, Religion and Modern Thought (SCM, 2007)

Linda Woodhead (ed.), Religions in the Modern World (Routledge, 2nd ed 2009)

Further reading:

Ruth Abbey, Charles Taylor (Princeton, 2000)

Tomoko Masuzawa, The Invention of World Religions (Chicago University Press, 2005)

For some of the other modules in the programme:
 
Hugh Goddard, A History of Christian-Muslim Relations (Edinburgh University Press, 2000)
 
Sachiko Murata and William C. Chittick, The Vision of Islam (I.B. Tauris, 2008)

Gavin Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
 
Harold Coward (ed.), Hindu-Christian Dialogue: Encounters and Perspectives (Orbis, 1990)
 
Peter Harvey, An Introduction to Buddhism (Cambridge University Press, 1990)