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A communication perspective on interfaith dialogue : living within the Abrahamic traditions / Daniel S. Brown, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Daniel S., 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religions--Relations.
- Religions.
- Communication--Religious aspects.
- Communication.
- Dialogue--Religious aspects.
- Dialogue.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Communication Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue: Living Within the Abrahamic Traditions is designed with upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, professionals, and laypersons in mind. Partners in interfaith dialogue will value the practical advice for those who converge in councils and agencies, schools, synagogues, churches, mosques, and other faith-based organizations; academic readers will benefit by seeing how rhetorical and communication theory is applied and refined when brought into conversation with the relig
- Contents:
- A Communication Perspective on INTERFAITH DIALOGUE; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1 Foundations; 1 Communication Theory Meets Interfaith Dialogue; 2 Managing the Anxiety and Uncertainty of Religious Otherness: Interfaith Dialogue as a Problem of Intercultural Communication; 3 Humanizing and Dehumanizing Responses Across Four Orientations to Religious Otherness; 4 Rhetorology and Interfaith Dialogue; Part 2 Applications; 5 A Narrative Approach to Interfaith Dialogue: Explanations & Recommendations; 6 St. Francis and the Sultan: Adaptive Structuration Theory
- 7 Hope Analysis: Pathways, Agency, and Interfaith Dialogue8 The Power of Living Parables for Transformative Interfaith Encounters; 9 Memory and Interfaith Dialogue in the Context of Globalization; 10 Speech and Silence as Rhetorical Space: Lessons from an Inter-Racial Church; Part 3 Challenges; 11 Not in My Sandbox: Organizational Culture, Identity, and Interfaith Collaboration; 12 Hindu Interfaith Discourse: Spiral of Silence as a Theological Inevitability; 13 The "God Problem" in Interfaith Dialogue: Situating Divine Speech in the Seven Traditions of Communication Theory; Index
- About the Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-31621-2
- 0-7391-7871-7
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