The Religious Other
Hostility, Hospitality, and the Hope of Human Flourishing
Published on 20. August 2014
Book
Hardback
196 pages
978-0-7391-9256-6 (ISBN)
Description
One of the biggest challenges for relations between religions is the view of the religious Other. The question touches the roots of our theological views. The Religious Other: Hostility, Hospitality, and the Hope of Human Flourishing explores the views of multiple religious traditions on how to regard otherness. How does one move from hostility to hospitality? How can hospitality be understood not simply as social hospitality but as theological hospitality, making room for the religious Other on theological grounds? What is our vision for the flourishing of the Other, while respecting his otherness? This volume is an exercise in constructive interreligious theology. By including perspectives of Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic traditions, it approaches these challenges from multiple perspectives, highlighting commonalities in approach and ways in which one tradition might inspire another.
Reviews / Votes
Religion has been and continues to be a factor that breeds conflict leading to violence among human beings. Can religion also provide human beings with a capacity to work creatively together toward a more humane, peaceful, and ecologically sustainable world? This book offers critical and constructive essays by scholars of five major religious traditions that examine the seeds of hostility toward religious Others and seek to highlight those elements that ground attitudes of hospitality and loving kindness toward Others in a way that would lead to harmonious coexistence and cooperation in our world today. -- Ruben L.F. Habito, Southern Methodist University Alon Goshen-Gottstein has put together a beautiful and useful volume. The essays here offer an appreciative view into the rooms of different religious traditions and illuminate the corridors that connect them. Highly recommended for anyone seeking the theological resources to be an interfaith leader. -- Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith America, author of We Need To Build: Field Notes for Diverse DemocracyMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
445 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7391-9256-6 (9780739192566)
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Persons
Alon Goshen-Gottstein is founder and director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute. A noted scholar of Jewish studies, he has held academic posts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University and has served as director of the Center for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morasha College, Jerusalem.
Content
Foreword, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Chapter 1: Overview: Themes and Problematics, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Chapter 2: Judaism: The Battle for Survival, the Struggle for Compassion, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Chapter 3: Making Room for the Other: Hostility and Hospitality from a Christian Perspective, Stephen W. Sykes
Chapter 4: Islam: Epistemological Crisis, Theological Hostility, and the Problem of Difference, Vincent J. Cornell
Chapter 5: Hinduism
Part 1: Metaphysical Unity, Phenomenological Diversity, and the Approach to the Other: An Advaita Vedanta Position, Ashok Vohra
Part 2: Hinduism and the Other: A Madhava Position, Deepak Sarma
Chapter 6: Buddhism, Richard P. Hayes
Addendum: More on the Mahayana Perspective, Dharma Master Hsin Tao
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Comparative Perspectives, Collective Tasks, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Afterword, Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Chapter 1: Overview: Themes and Problematics, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Chapter 2: Judaism: The Battle for Survival, the Struggle for Compassion, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Chapter 3: Making Room for the Other: Hostility and Hospitality from a Christian Perspective, Stephen W. Sykes
Chapter 4: Islam: Epistemological Crisis, Theological Hostility, and the Problem of Difference, Vincent J. Cornell
Chapter 5: Hinduism
Part 1: Metaphysical Unity, Phenomenological Diversity, and the Approach to the Other: An Advaita Vedanta Position, Ashok Vohra
Part 2: Hinduism and the Other: A Madhava Position, Deepak Sarma
Chapter 6: Buddhism, Richard P. Hayes
Addendum: More on the Mahayana Perspective, Dharma Master Hsin Tao
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Comparative Perspectives, Collective Tasks, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Afterword, Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks