Never wholly other: a Muslima theology of religious pluralism

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamptey, Jerusha Tanner, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious pluralism--Islam.

Religious pluralism.

Qurʼan--Hermeneutics.

Qurʼan.

Qurʼan--Feminist criticism.

Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Other Title:

Never wholly other

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How does the Qur'an depict the religious Other? Throughout Islamic history, this question has provoked extensive and intricate debate about the identity, nature, and status of the religious Other and the religious self. This book critically highlights a pervasive inability to account for both religious commonalities and religious differences without resorting to models that depict religions as isolated entities or models that arrange religions in a static, evaluative hierarchy, and constructs an alternative conceptual and hermeneutical approach.

Contents:

The Qur'an and the religious "other"

Theology of religions and Islamic contributions

Muslima theology?

Qur'an only?

Overview of chapters

Historical and contemporary approaches to religious "otherness"

"Self" and "other" in historical Islamic discourse

Rejecting the "other" and projecting the "self": polemical and apologetic trends

Delineations of Qur'anic difference: exegetical and juridical trends

Theocentric oneness and differentiated multiplicity: mystical and Sufi trends

"Selves" and "others"

Sameness and difference in contemporary Islamic approaches to religious diversity

Prioritization of sameness

Simultaneous affirmation of sameness and difference

Prioritization of difference

Proximity and otherness: the prevailing conception of difference and beyond

Shortcomings

Conceptual and hermeneutical foundations of Muslima theology

Contemporary Muslim women interpreters of the Qur'an: hermeneutical approach and conception of difference

Qur'an-centered hermeneutical approach

(Re)conception of difference

Forays into religious difference

Trajectories of analysis

From sexual difference to religious difference: feminist theological approaches to religious difference

Dialogue amidst diversity

Theology of religions: feminist theological critiques & contributions

Insights and extensions: towards a Muslima theology of religious pluralism

From holistic interpretation to relational hermeneutics: Toshihiko Izutsu's semantic analysis of the Qur'an

Relational meaning and the semantic Weltanschauung: Toshihiko Izutsu's method of analysis

The Qur'anic Weltanschauung: conceptual opposition and a basic moral dichotomy

Insights: towards a Muslima hermeneutic of relationality

A Muslima theology of religious pluralism

Lateral and hierarchical religious difference in the Qur'an

Defining characteristics of hierarchical and lateral difference

Hierarchical religious difference: the semantic field of taqwa

Lateral religious difference: the semantic field of umma

Umma and reification?

Taqwa and denotative stability?

Relational mapping of the semantic field of taqwa: concepts of hierarchical religious difference

Recognition of and attitude towards God

Response to God's guidance

Type and nature of actions

Observations and implications

Never wholly "other": sameness, difference and relationality

Creation and theological anthropology

Creation and revelation

Revelation and revelation

Purpose of lateral religious difference

The religious "other" and the Qur'an.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 14, 2014).