Chapter one: Comparative theology and the practice of Advaita Vedānta
The elements of the experiment
Comparative theology as practical knowledge
Advaita, text and commentary
Chapter two: The texture of the Advaita Vedānta text
The texture of the Advaita text
The rough texture of the Upaniṣads
The organization of Upaniṣadic knowledge in the UMS
The contextualization of meaning through engaged reading
Chapter three: the truth of Advaita Vedānta
The problem of truth in the text
Strategies of textual truth
Truth after the text: the true meaning of the Upaniṣads and the world of Advaita
Defending Brahman: The fragmentation of the other in the text
A concluding note on Advaita and intertextual truth
Chapter four: Advaita Vedānta and its readers
The tension between the text and its truth
Timeless truth, timely reading: the truth in reading
The constraints on liberation and the cessation of reading in UMS III.4: description as prescription
Advaita Elitism and the possibility of the unauthorized reader: finding a loophole
Chapter five: Theology after Advaita Vedānta: the text, the truth, and the Theologian
The practice of comparative theology
The composition of the text for comparative theology: reading the Summa Theologiae and the Uttara Mīmāṃsā Sutras together
The truth of comparative theology
The education of the comparative theologian
Finishing the experiment.
