# Roger Corless

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{{Infobox person
| name        = Roger Corless
| image       = Roger.corless.at.coyote.state.park.jpg
| caption     = At Coyote State Park
| title       = Professor of Religion <br />[Duke University](/source/Duke_University)
| birth_date  = June 26, 1938
| birth_place = [Merseyside](/source/Merseyside), England
| death_date  = January 12, 2007
| death_place = San Francisco, California
| citizenship = American
| education   = Ph.D. (Buddhist Studies), [University of Wisconsin–Madison](/source/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison), 1973
}}

'''Roger Corless''' (1938–2007) made significant contributions to [interfaith dialogue](/source/interfaith_dialogue), particularly on the subject Buddhist-Christian [dual belonging](/source/Dual_Belonging) ("co-inherent consciousness").<ref>See the article below, "On Becoming a Dialogian."</ref>

He was Professor of Religion at [Duke University](/source/Duke_University), and held visiting positions at the [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill](/source/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill), [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University), [Chaminade University of Honolulu](/source/Chaminade_University_of_Honolulu), [California Institute of Integral Studies](/source/California_Institute_of_Integral_Studies), [University of California-Berkeley](/source/University_of_California-Berkeley), and the [Institute of Buddhist Studies](/source/Institute_of_Buddhist_Studies).

==Biographical brief==
Roger Corless studied at [King's College London](/source/King's_College_London) (B.D., 1961) and the [University of Wisconsin–Madison](/source/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison) (Ph.D., Buddhist Studies, 1973). His special interests were [Pure Land Buddhism](/source/Pure_Land_Buddhism), [Christian Spirituality](/source/Catholic_Spirituality), and Buddhist-Christian Dialogue.

He was a co-founder of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies and its journal ''[Buddhist-Christian Studies](/source/Buddhist-Christian_Studies)'' ([University of Hawaii](/source/University_of_Hawaii) Press).

He published four books, including ''[The Vision of Buddhism](/source/The_Vision_of_Buddhism)'', and more than sixty scholarly articles.

==Selected bibliography==
;Books
*''The Art of Christian Alchemy: Transfiguring the Ordinary through Holistic Meditation''. Paulist Press, 1981.
*''I am Food: The Mass in Planetary Perspective''. Wipf and Stock, 2004. Originally published by Crossroad, 1981.
*''[The Vision of Buddhism: The Space under the Tree](/source/The_Vision_of_Buddhism_(book))''. Paragon House, 1989.
*''Buddhist Emptiness and Christian Trinity: Essays and Explorations''. ed. with [Paul F. Knitter](/source/Paul_F._Knitter). Paulist Press, 1990. (Contains his article “Can Emptiness Will?”)
*''Where do we Go from Here? The Many Religions and the Next Step''. Draft completed, publisher being sought.

;Articles
*“An Essay on the Place of the Text in Buddhist and Christian Formation.” ''Studies in Formative Spirituality'' XIV:1 (February 1993), 31–40.
*“The Coming of the Dialogian: A Transpersonal Approach to Interreligious Dialogue.” ''Dialogue and Alliance: A Journal of the International Religious Foundation'' 7:2 (Fall/Winter 1993), 3–17.
*“A Form for Buddhist-Christian Co-Inherence Meditation” and “A Reply to the Responses”. ''Buddhist-Christian Studies'' 14 (1994), 139–144 and 181–184 (part of the forum on Joint Practice, pages 137–196).
*“A Buddhist Understanding of HIV/AIDS.” ''Religion in the Age of AIDS: Strategy and Theology from the AIDS & Religion in America Convention'' (San Francisco: Public Media Center; Washington DC: AIDS National Interfaith Network, 1999), pages 59–63.
*“Towards a Queer Dharmology of Sex.” ''Culture and Religion'' 5:2 (July 2004), 229–243.

==Notes==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.thecorless.com/media/roger/corless.becoming.a.dialogian.text.pdf "On Becoming a Dialogian"] An essay by Roger Corless.
* [http://www.innerexplorations.com/catew/9.htm Profiles in Buddhist-Christian Dialogue] An interview with Roger Corless.

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