Interreligious hermeneutics in pluralistic Europe : between texts and people / edited by David Cheetham . . . [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cheetham, David (David A.)

European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies.

Series:

Currents of encounter ; v. 40.

Currents of encounter ; vol. 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religions--Relations.

Religions.

Religious pluralism--Europe.

Religious pluralism.

Europe--Religion.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Between texts and people

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the second major conference held in Salzburg in 2009 of The European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS), participants probed the broad theme of ‘interreligious hermeneutics in a pluralistic Europe’. Due to the phenomenon of an increasingly plural Europe, questions arise about how we see each other’s cultural heritage, religious traditions and sacred scriptures. Following the discussions that took place at the conference, this book focuses on the usage of texts in our global and mass media world, the possibility of ‘scriptural reasoning’, the theological comparison of selected topics from religious traditions by scholars belonging to multiple religions or interreligious communities of scholars, the pragmatics of using sacred texts in social contexts of family and gender, polemical attacks on the other’s sacred text and the challenge to interreligious hermeneutics of the postcolonial deconstruction of religion by cultural studies. The future of interreligious hermeneutics is going to be complex. This book exhibits the multiple agendas – power, gender, postcolonialism, globalisation, dialogue, tradition, polemics – that will have a stake in these future debates.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

One Text–Different Meanings?: The Notification on Jacques Dupuis in the Light of the Second Vatican Council / Sigrid Rettenbacher

Sifting the Qur’an: Two Forms of Interreligious Hermeneutics in Nicholas of Cusa / Pim Valkenberg

An Exposition and Defence of Jayanta Bhatta’s Inclusivism / David Slakter

Scriptural Reasoning and Interfaith Hermeneutics / Nicholas Adams

Scriptural Reasoning: A Feminist Response / Helene Egnell

Scriptural Reasoning or Symbiosis: Can an Asian Paradigm Have a Message for Europe? / Elizabeth J. Harris

Towards an Interreligious Hermeneutic of Scripture: Problems and Possibilities / Magdalen Lambkin

Comparative Theology–As Theology / Francis X. Clooney

Entitled to Understand: A Critical Look at Comparative Theology / Albertina Nugteren

Comparative Theology in Search of a Hermeneutical Framework / Marianne Moyaert

Confessional and Comparative Theology: Counterparts or Complements? / Hendrik Rungelrath

Guanyin, Queer Theology, and Subversive Religiosity: An Experiment in Interreligious Theology / Paul Hedges

What is Comparative Theology? / Ulrich Winkler

European Islamic Gender Discourses / Anne Sofie Roald

The Forbidden Fruit for the New Eve: The Christian Right’s Adaptation to the (Post)Modern World / Susanne Scholz

Interreligious Learning: The Shaping of Interreligious Identity in Pluralistic Europe / Martin Rötting

Interreligious Hermeneutics and the Ethical Critique of the Scriptures? / Oddbjørn Leirvik

Polemical Revival: Attacking the Other’s Texts / John Chesworth

On the Communication of Sacred Texts: Intercultural Comparison or Intercultural Encounter / Andreas Nehring

Culture/s as a Theological Challenge: Towards a Systematic Approach to Intercultural Theology / Judith Gruber

Double Commitment: or The Case for Religious Mestizaje (Creolization)? / Xavier Gravend-Tirole

Index of Subjects

Contributors.

Notes:

Book inspired by discussions after the second conference of the European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies held in Salzburg, Austria, April 15-17, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-12328-2

9786613123282

94-012-0037-8

OCLC:

729167157

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401200370 DOI