The Necessity Of Interfaith Dialogue

Author : Muthuraj Swamy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474256421

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The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue by Muthuraj Swamy Pdf

Muthuraj Swamy provides a fresh perspective on the world religions paradigm and 'interreligious dialogue'. By challenging the assumption that 'world religions' operate as essential entities separate from the lived experiences of practitioners, he shows that interreligious dialogue is in turn problematic as it is built on this very paradigm, and on the myth of religious conflict. Offering a critique of the idea of 'dialogue' as it has been advanced by its proponents such as religious leaders and theologians whose aims are to promote inter-religious conversation and understanding, the author argues that this approach is 'elitist' and that in reality, people do not make sharp distinctions between religions, nor do they separate political, economic, social and cultural beliefs and practices from their religious traditions. Case studies from villages in southern India explore how Hindu, Muslim and Christian communities interact in numerous ways that break the neat categories often used to describe each religion. Swamy argues that those who promote dialogue are ostensibly attempting to overcome the separate identities of religious practitioners through understanding, but in fact, they re-enforce them by encouraging a false sense of separation. The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue: Plurality, Conflict and Elitism in Hindu-Christian-Muslim Relations provides an innovative approach to a central issue confronting Religious Studies, combining both theory and ethnography.

Author : Fethullah Gülen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Islam
ISBN : OCLC:1181684175

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The Necessity of Interfaith Dialogue by Fethullah Gülen Pdf

Author : Fethullah Gülen
Publisher : Tughra Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Dialogue
ISBN : 1932099654

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The Necessity of Interfaith Dialogue by Fethullah Gülen Pdf

Religious progress is possible not by consciences being narrow and separate from each other, but by their being universal and broad.

Author : Edmund Kee-Fook Chia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137596987

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Interfaith Dialogue by Edmund Kee-Fook Chia Pdf

This book addresses issues central to today’s Catholic Church, focusing on the relationship between various religions in different contexts and regions across the world. The diverse array of contributors present an inclusively interfaith enterprise, investigating a wide range of encounters and perspectives. The essays include approaches from the Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and Bahá’í traditions, in a variety of geographic contexts. Contributors reflect on Muslims in the West, Christian-Buddhist social activism, and on Chinese, Indian, and Japanese religions. The volume also explores the experiences of communities that are often marginalized and overlooked such as the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia and the Karen tribal peoples of Thailand. Contributors examine the works of the Focolare, Gülen, and Risshō Kōsei-kai movements, and integrate the vision of Raimon Panikkar and Ken Wilber. Chapters incorporate discussions of dialogue documents such as Nostra Aetate and Dabru Emet, and methodologies such as Receptive Ecumenism, Comparative Theology, and Scriptural Reasoning. Among other goals, the book seeks to offer glimpses into interfaith dialogues across the world and examine what Christians can learn from other religions and global contexts.

Author : Catherine Cornille
Publisher : Herder & Herder
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124108734

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The Im-possibility of Interreligious Dialogue by Catherine Cornille Pdf

In the face of competing religious claims in our shrinking world, many turn to dialogue as a hopeful way of fostering understanding and reducing violence. But why does actual dialogue so often fail? This provocative study investigates the possibilities and limits of interreligious dialogue. By showing the significant obstacles for dialogue within Christianity, the book also proposes ways in which these obstacles may be overcome from within. Major themes include Humility, Conviction, Interconnection, Empathy, and Generosity.

Author : Jijimon Alakkalam Joseph SVD
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506470788

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Christian - Zen Dialogue by Jijimon Alakkalam Joseph SVD Pdf

This book is an attempt to contribute to interfaith-dialogue initiatives spearheaded by the Catholic Church with Zen, one of the major and fast-growing spiritual traditions in East Asia. In recent years, the Catholic Church has emphasized the importance of interfaith dialogue in its missionary activities and has encouraged all to take part actively. The number of conferences organized, discussions held, and articles written on interfaith dialogue has escalated. However, interfaith dialogue remains mostly in the realm of specialists. The majority of ordinary believers/laity have not yet become part of interfaith-dialogue activities. Many are unaware of such activities because often they don't take place where ordinary people spend their daily lives. Others shy away because interfaith-dialogue activities are too specialized. But Joseph's experience growing up in a multireligious context in India taught him that the participation of ordinary believers is necessary if interfaith dialogue is to achieve its intended results. Christian - Zen Dialogue focuses on narratives of faith in Christianity and Zen. Can these sacred stories--gospel stories of Jesus and Chan/Zen stories (K_ans)--be a starting point for dialogue between the two faiths? The book focuses on two aspects: First, what model of interfaith dialogue can help Catholics and Zen followers of all walks of life engage in faith dialogue while remaining in their own life situations? Second, how can they make use of the common elements found in their narratives of faith as the most appropriate starting point for dialogue between them? To achieve the intended results, Joseph applies the hermeneutic phenomenological approach of Paul Ricoeur.

Author : Lutheran World Federation,Catholic Church
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802847749

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Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification by Lutheran World Federation,Catholic Church Pdf

This volume presents in English the official Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, confirmed by the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church in Augsburg, Germany, in October 1999. The result of decades of Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue, this primary document represents an ecumenical event of historical significance. Included in the volume are the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification and the Official Common Statement with its Annex. These texts are recommended for careful study in seminaries and parishes and for reading by individual Christians. It is hoped that the Joint Declaration will deepen understanding of the biblical message of justification and also serve to further reflection within the wider ecumenical movement.

Author : David R. Smock
Publisher : 成甲書房
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1929223358

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Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding by David R. Smock Pdf

As the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish contributors to this volume have discovered firsthand, religion is better at fostering peace than at fueling war. Rarely, conclude the authors, is religion the principal cause of international conflict, even though some adversaries may argue differently. But religion can often be invaluable in promoting understanding and reconciliation-and the need to exploit that potential has never been greater. Drawing on their extensive experience in organizing interaction and cooperation across religious boundaries in the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, Northern Ireland, and the Balkans, the contributors explore the formidable potential of interfaith dialogue. The first part of the volume analyzes the concept and its varied application; the second focuses on its practice in specific zones of conflict; and the third assesses the experiences and approaches of particular organizations. When organized creatively, interfaith dialogue can nurture deep engagement at all levels of the religious hierarchy, including the community level. It draws strength from the peacemaking traditions shared by many faiths and from the power of religious ritual and symbolism. Yet, as the authors also make plain, it also has its limitations and carries great risks.

Author : Anglican Consultative Council
Publisher : Church House Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Anglican Communion
ISBN : 0715155253

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Towards a Theology for Inter-faith Dialogue by Anglican Consultative Council Pdf

This is a joint publication with the Board of Mission which includes an essay by Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali on interfaith dialogue in Pakistan.

Author : Aaron Rosen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Scott Blakemore
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004408951

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Faith-based Diplomacy and Interfaith Dialogue by Scott Blakemore Pdf

Interfaith dialogue is a practice that could benefit diplomatic strategies but has not yet been brought into diplomacy’s scope. This paper uses the theoretical construct of faith-based diplomacy to recommend interfaith dialogue as a viable strategy within diplomatic activities.

Author : Richard M. Landau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religions
ISBN : OCLC:189824573

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What the World Needs to Know about Interfaith Dialogue-- by Richard M. Landau Pdf

Author : Thomas Albert Howard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300258561

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The Faiths of Others by Thomas Albert Howard Pdf

The first intellectual history of interreligious dialogue, a relatively new and significant dimension of human religiosity In recent decades, organizations committed to interreligious or interfaith dialogue have proliferated, both in the Western and non-Western worlds. Why? How so? And what exactly is interreligious dialogue? These are the touchstone questions of this book, the first major history of interreligious dialogue in the modern age. Thomas Albert Howard narrates and analyzes several key turning points in the history of interfaith dialogue before examining, in the conclusion, the contemporary landscape. While many have theorized about and practiced interreligious dialogue, few have attended carefully to its past, connecting its emergence and spread with broader developments in modern history. Interreligious dialogue—grasped in light of careful, critical attention to its past—holds promise for helping people of diverse faith backgrounds to foster cooperation and knowledge of one another while contributing insight into contemporary, global religious pluralism.

Author : Anna Körs,Wolfram Weisse,Jean-Paul Willaime
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030318567

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Religious Diversity and Interreligious Dialogue by Anna Körs,Wolfram Weisse,Jean-Paul Willaime Pdf

This edited volume offers solutions on the challenges of religious pluralisation from a European perspective. It gives special attention to interreligious dialogue and interfaith relations as specific means of dealing with plurality. In particular, the contributors describe innovative scientific approaches and broad political and social scopes of action for addressing the diversity of beliefs, practices, and traditions. In total, more than 25 essays bring together interdisciplinary and international research perspectives. The papers cover a wide thematic range. They highlight how religious pluralisation effects such fields as theology, politics, civil society, education, and communication/media. The contributors not only illustrate academic debates about religious diversity but they also look at the political and social scope for dealing with such. Coverage spans numerous countries, and beliefs, from Buddhism to Judaism. This book features presentations from the Herrenhausen Conference on "Religious Pluralisation - A Challenge for Modern Societies," held in Hanover, Germany, October 2016. This insightful collection will benefit students and researchers with an interest in religion and laicism, interreligious dialogue, governance of religious diversity, and religion in the public sphere.

Author : Peter C. Phan
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608334735

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Being Religious Interreligiously by Peter C. Phan Pdf