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Understanding interreligious relations / edited by David Cheetham, Douglas Pratt, and David Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religions--Relations.
- Religions.
- Relations.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 448 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- The ways in which religious communities interact with one another is an increasing focus of scholarly research and teaching. Issues of interreligious engagement, inclusive of dialogue more specifically and relations more generally, attract widespread interest and concern. In a religiously pluralist world, how different communities get along with each other is not just an academic question; it is very much a focus of socio-political and wider community attention. The study of religions and religion in the twenty-first century world must necessarily take account of relations within and between religions, whether this is approached from a theological, historical, political, or any other disciplinary point of view. Understanding Interreligious Relations is a reference work of relevance to students and scholars as well as of interest to a wider informed public. It comprises two main parts. The first provides expositions and critical discussions of the ways in which æthe otherÆ has been construed and addressed from within the major religious traditions. The second presents analyses and discussions of key issues and topics in which interreligious relations are an integral constituent. The editors have assembled an authoritative and scholarly work that discusses perspectives on the religious æotherÆ and interreligious relations that are typical of the major religious traditions; together with substantial original chapters from a cross-section of emerging and established scholars on main debates and issues in the wider field of interreligious relations. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- ch. 1. Introduction / David Cheetham, Douglas Pratt, and David Thomas
- Part I. Religions and the religious other
- ch. 2. Religion and the religious other / David Cheetham
- ch. 3. Hinduism and the religious other / Jeffery D. Long
- ch. 4. Judaism and the religious other / Ed Kessler
- ch. 5. Buddhism and the religious other / Eizabeth J. Harris
- ch. 6. Christianity and the relgious other / Perry Schmidt-Leukel
- ch. 7. Islam and the religious other / David Thomas
- Part II. Themes and issues in interreligious relations
- ch. 8. Interreligious conversion / Andrew Wingate
- ch. 9. Interreligious dialogue / Marianne Moyaert
- ch. 10. Interreligious majority-minority dynamics / Peter C. Phan and Jonathan Y. Tan
- ch. 11. Fundamentalism, exclusivism, and relgious extremism / Douglas Pratt
- ch. 12. Encounter as conflict : interfaith peace-building / Anna Halafoff
- ch. 13. Interreligious engagement in the public sphere / Nicholas Adams
- ch. 14. Dialogue, liberation, and justice / Mario I. Aguilar
- ch. 15. Multiple religious belonging / Catherine Cornille
- ch. 16. Boundaries and encounters / David R. Vishanoff
- ch. 17. Interreligious cooperation / Paul Weller
- ch. 18. The future of engagement : emerging contexts and trends / David Cheetham, Douglas Pratt, and David Thomas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [402]-426) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199645841
- 9780199645848
- 019964585X
- 9780199645855
- OCLC:
- 830367876
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