Kristin Beise Kiblinger
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies

Kinard Hall 324
803-323-4650
kiblingerk@winthrop.edu

Scholarly Work:

Will present “Theology of Religions Presuppositions for Comparative Theology and the Hegemony Worry” at the 2007 AAR in San Diego.
Currently serve on the steering committee for the comparative theology group of the American Academy of Religion.
Awarded 2006 Winthrop Research Council Grant for Hinduism course development
Respondent on Comparative Theology Panel with theme of divine embodiment, Nov. 2006 national AAR Conference in DC
Presented an overview of Buddhist positions on other religions at the European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies conference in Salzburg, Austria in June 2007, and the conference paper will appear as an article in Buddhist Attitudes Towards Other Religions forthcoming in 2008 with EOS Verlag (St. Ottilien), ed. by Perry Schmidt-Leukel.
"Comparing Comparative Christologies" was delivered in November 2005 for Lutheran Women in Theology and Religious Studies Conference in Philadelphia.
A review of John P. Keenan's The Wisdom of James: Parallels with Mahayana Buddhism appeared in the Journal of Religion 86, no. 1 (Jan. 2006): 149-50.

The book Buddhist Inclusivism: Attitudes Towards Religious Others was published in May 2005 with Ashgate Publishing.

"Using Mahayana Buddhism to Tell the Story of Jesus: On the Work of John P. Keenan" delivered at the Eastern International American Academy of Religion Conference in Montreal in May 2005.
A review of Jonathan Adler's Beliefs Own Ethics was published in the Journal of Religion in April 2004.
"Using Three-Vehicle Theory to Improve Buddhist Inclusivism" published in Buddhist-Christian Studies, 2004.
"Identifying Inclusivism in Buddhist Contexts" published in Contemporary Buddhism, vol. 4. no. 1, 2003.
"Problems with Buddhist Inclusivism" presented at the Eastern International Conference of the American Academy of Religion Conference in Erie in March 2003.

Fall 2007 Office Hours:

Classes offered in Fall 2007