ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the following chapters of this book. The book uses post-colonial theory to offer a direct challenge to Francis X. Clooney's model of 'deep learning across religious border', illustrating how millennial ways of knowing and being may function to expose the ugly. It offers a more appreciative view of the potential of comparative theology to address particular exigencies of the millennial classroom. The book focuses on queer theory that provides useful corrective to the teaching of comparative theology in the twenty-first century. It also focuses on how comparative theology can address complex dynamics of affiliation and disaffiliation. The book also offers introductions to two different methods of comparative practice, each of which extends vision beyond the traditional use of texts. It defines boundaries of the millennial 'classroom' to other learning spaces that becomes ever more important for education in the twenty-first century.
