Interreligious Encounters

Author : Jennifer Howe Peace
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781608331178

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My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious, Encounter, Growth, and Transformation by Jennifer Howe Peace Pdf

This groundbreaking volume gathers an array of inspiring and penetrating stories about the interreligious encounters of outstanding community leaders, scholars, public intellectuals, and activist from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. With wisdom, wit, courage, and humility, these writers from a range of religious backgrounds share their personal experience of border-crossing, and the lessons learned from their interreligious adventures. We live in the most religiously diverse society in the history of humankind. Every day, people of different religious beliefs and practices encounter one another in a myriad of settings. How has this new situation of religious diversity impacted the way we understand the religious other, ourselves, and God? Can we learn to live together with mutual respect, working together for the creation of a more compassionate and just world? Contributors include: Mary Boys, Rita Nakishima-Brock; Arthur Green; Ruben Habito; Paul Knitter; Michael Lerner; Eboo Patel; Judith Plaskow; Paul Raushenbush; Arthur Waskow; and many more.

Author : Aaron Rosen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art and religion
ISBN : 2503580327

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Encounters by Aaron Rosen Pdf

The 21st century is a new era for interfaith dialogue. Leaders of many of the world's faiths have begun, often for the first time, to sit down together and consider the possibilities for cooperation and dialogue between the practitioners of their religions. While in the past such encounters might have been stiff affairs contrived to generate a politically expedient photo-op, what is remarkable today is the depth of relationships being formed across historically deep divides. Acclaimed artist Nicola Green has had a front row seat to many of these encounters, spending years accompanying former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams in meetings with religious leaders across the world. In her wide-ranging project Only through Others, Green presents photographs and paintings inspired by Dr. Williams' intimate conversations with figures including Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the Dalai Lama, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, and former British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Green's works-resulting from unprecedented access yielding thousands of photographs, drawings, and pages of notes-provide a dynamic lens for the authors in this book to analyze what makes for productive and lasting interfaith dialogue. By paying attention to neglected factors in such encounters, from the set up of physical spaces to bodily gestures and even the clothing of participants, this book provides a truly embodied perspective on interfaith dialogue. It refuses to see theology in a vacuum, placing faith fully within the context of visual, material, and sensory culture.

Author : Kate McCarthy
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813541358

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Interfaith Encounters in America by Kate McCarthy Pdf

From its most cosmopolitan urban centers to the rural Midwest, the United States is experiencing a rising tide of religious interest. While terrorist attacks keep Americans fixed on an abhorrent vision of militant Islam, popular films such as The Passion of the Christ and The Da Vinci Code make blockbuster material of the origins of Christianity. The 2004 presidential election, we are told, was decided on the basis of religiously driven moral values. A majority of Americans are reported to believe that religious differences are the biggest obstacle to world peace.Beneath the superficial banter of the media and popular culture, however, are quieter conversations about what it means to be religious in America today-conversations among recent immigrants about how to adapt their practices to life in new land, conversations among young people who are finding new meaning in religions rejected by their parents, conversations among the religiously unaffiliated about eclectic new spiritualities encountered in magazines, book groups, or online. Interfaith Encounters in America takes a compelling look at these seldom acknowledged exchanges, showing how, despite their incompatibilities, Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Hindu Americans, among others, are using their beliefs to commit to the values of a pluralistic society rather than to widen existing divisions.Chapters survey the intellectual exchanges among scholars of philosophy, religion, and theology about how to make sense of conflicting claims, as well as the relevance and applicability of these ideas "on the ground" where real people with different religious identities intentionally unite for shared purposes that range from national public policy initiatives to small town community interfaith groups, from couples negotiating interfaith marriages to those exploring religious issues with strangers in online interfaith discussion groups.Written in engaging and accessible prose, this book provides an important reassessment of the problems, values, and goals of contemporary religion in the United States. It is essential reading for scholars of religion, sociology, and American studies, as well as anyone who is concerned with the purported impossibility of religious pluralism.

Author : Hava Lazarus-Yafeh
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Arabic literature
ISBN : 3447040416

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The Majlis by Hava Lazarus-Yafeh Pdf

This book deals with a well-known and widespread phenomenon in medieval Islam which has not been studied in detail. The Majlis (pl. Majalis) is a forum devoted to interreligious polemics, as well as to the discussion of a variety of other topics. The concept and practise of the Majlis are examined from different angles by ten scholars. approach (H. Kuhne).

Author : Michael Amaladoss
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608336869

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Interreligious Encounters by Michael Amaladoss Pdf

Author : Marc A. Pugliese,Alexander Y. Hwang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190677589

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Teaching Interreligious Encounters by Marc A. Pugliese,Alexander Y. Hwang Pdf

In Teaching Interreligious Encounters, Marc A. Pugliese and Alexander Y. Hwang have gathered together a multidisciplinary and international group of scholar-teachers to explore the pedagogical issues that occur at the intersection of different religious traditions. This volume is a theoretical and practical guide for new teachers as well as seasoned scholars. It breaks the pedagogy of interreligious encounters down into five distinct components. In the first part, essays explore the theory of teaching these encounters; in the second, essays discuss course design. The parts that follow engage practical ideas for teaching textual analysis, practice, and real-world application. Despite their disciplinary, contextual, and methodological diversity, these essays share a common vision for the learning goals and outcomes of teaching interreligious encounters. This is a much-needed resource for any teacher participating in these conversations in our age of globalization and migration, with its attendant hopes and fears.

Author : Marc A. Pugliese,Alexander Y. Hwang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190677565

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Teaching Interreligious Encounters by Marc A. Pugliese,Alexander Y. Hwang Pdf

At head of title: American Academy of Religion.

Author : SimonMary Asese A. Aihiokhai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030178055

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Fostering Interreligious Encounters in Pluralist Societies by SimonMary Asese A. Aihiokhai Pdf

This book calls attention to ways of fostering dialogue among members of different religious traditions in an era of cultural and religious pluralism. To achieve this, the author analyzes the results of an ethnographic study of Ihievbe, a town in Midwestern Nigeria that is religiously pluralistic. Emphasis is given to hospitality and friendship—two key relational, cultural, philosophical, and theological virtues—as tools for constructing healthy interreligious dialogue that is relevant for our times. A critical study is done on the importance of these two dialogical virtues in the religious expressions of Roman Catholicism, Islam, and Ihievbe Traditional Religion. Preference for ethnographic studies is based on stressing the relevance of context in articulating useful practices of interreligious dialogue. Finally, the book articulates ways the fruits of interreligious dialogue can be celebrated in the liturgical rituals of each religion, especially the three religions that are addressed here.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004401792

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Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

This book focuses on polemical religious texts of Iberia’s long fifteenth century, a period characterized by both social violence and cultural exchange. It highlights how polemical texts often reveal the interconnected nature of social and cultural intimacy, promoting dialogue and cultural transfer.

Author : Julia Ipgrave,Thorsten Knauth,Anna Körs,Dörthe Vieregge,Marie von der Lippe
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783830987949

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Religion and Dialogue in the City by Julia Ipgrave,Thorsten Knauth,Anna Körs,Dörthe Vieregge,Marie von der Lippe Pdf

Urban spaces throughout Europe are increasingly characterised by a mixture of different religions and worldviews. Being home to a wide range of religious and non-religious groups and individuals does not mean that cities are automatically also spaces of interreligious and interfaith encounters. Whether a city is a venue for interreligious encounter and dialogue, or merely a place where various religions and worldviews exist side by side, is a central question for the continuing social cohesion of modern societies. This volume presents selected findings of the international research project 'Religion and Dialogue in Modern Societies' (ReDi) which investigated dialogical practice in the five metropolitan cities Oslo, Stockholm, London, Hamburg and Duisburg. It offers a range of case studies addressing two fields of activity: dialogue and interreligious encounters in the urban space and dialogue in education.

Author : Mercedes García-Arenal,Gerard Albert Wiegers,Ryan Szpiech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9004401768

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Interreligious Encounters in Polemics Between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond by Mercedes García-Arenal,Gerard Albert Wiegers,Ryan Szpiech Pdf

This book focuses on polemical religious texts of Iberia's long fifteenth century, a period characterized by both social violence and cultural exchange. It highlights how polemical texts often reveal the interconnected nature of social and cultural intimacy, promoting dialogue and cultural transfer.

Author : Edmund Kee-Fook Chia
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814684474

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World Christianity Encounters World Religions by Edmund Kee-Fook Chia Pdf

Synthesizing the thinking of the most prominent scholars, Professor Edmund Chia discusses practically everything that should be known about Christianity’s encounter with other religions in this comprehensive book. Topics include: the invention of the idea of World Religions and World Christianity the Bible and the church’s attitude toward other faiths Vatican II, Asian Christianity, and interfaith dialogue the what, why, when, and how of dialogue the global ecumenical movement theologies of religious pluralism cross-textual hermeneutics comparative theology interfaith worship religious syncretism multiple religious belonging interfaith learning in seminaries.

Author : Mercedes García-Arenal,Gerard Wiegers
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271082974

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Polemical Encounters by Mercedes García-Arenal,Gerard Wiegers Pdf

This collection takes a new approach to understanding religious plurality in the Iberian Peninsula and its Mediterranean and northern European contexts. Focusing on polemics—works that attack or refute the beliefs of religious Others—this volume aims to challenge the problematic characterization of Iberian Jews, Muslims, and Christians as homogeneous groups. From the high Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century, Christian efforts to convert groups of Jews and Muslims, Muslim efforts to convert Christians and Jews, and the defensive efforts of these communities to keep their members within the faiths led to the production of numerous polemics. This volume brings together a wide variety of case studies that expose how the current historiographical focus on the three religious communities as allegedly homogeneous groups obscures the diversity within the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities as well as the growing ranks of skeptics and outright unbelievers. Featuring contributions from a range of academic disciplines, this paradigm-shifting book sheds new light on the cultural and intellectual dynamics of the conflicts that marked relations among these religious communities in the Iberian Peninsula and beyond. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Antoni Biosca i Bas, Thomas E. Burman, Mònica Colominas Aparicio, John Dagenais, Óscar de la Cruz, Borja Franco Llopis, Linda G. Jones, Daniel J. Lasker, Davide Scotto, Teresa Soto, Ryan Szpiech, Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, and Carsten Wilke.

Author : Peter Feldmeier
Publisher : Anselm Academic Christian Brothers Pub.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 1599820315

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Encounters in Faith by Peter Feldmeier Pdf

With Christianity as a counterpoint, Feldmeier explores the spirituality and theology of Christianity, mysticism, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Zen, the Chinese spirit, indigenous traditions, and the New Age movement. The text provides a model for how religious traditions are more powerfully experienced and learned in interrelationship than in isolation. In the process, Feldmeier provides opportunities and inspiration for investigating and reflecting on one's own religious beliefs.--From publisher's description.

Author : Dagmar Grefe
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781621893417

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Encounters for Change by Dagmar Grefe Pdf

Weaving together insights from social psychology, theology, and experiences of interfaith religious leaders, Dagmar Grefe develops practical strategies that support interreligious contact at a grassroots level. She shows that by working together, religious communities can more effectively address global and local problems that all people face: poverty, environmental destruction, and armed conflict. Grefe describes interreligious cooperation at work in local communities. She develops tools that equip religious leaders with the interreligious competence needed for spiritual care and counseling with individual persons in crisis. Cooperation is not only effective in the care for communities and persons in crisis, it also heals distant and strained interreligious relationships. In the process of working together, perceptions of each other can transform.