Interreligious Studies
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In an increasingly connected world, the question of how different religious traditions relate to one another is more urgent than ever. The study of interreligious encounters and relations, by no means a new endeavor, has recently emerged as a formal multi- and interdisciplinary academic field that seeks not only to understand how worldviews and ways of life interact and intersect, but also to suggest avenues of constructive dialogue.
Interreligious Studies represents a milestone achievement, bringing together thirty-six scholars from four continents to produce "dispatches" on the current state of this burgeoning field. This volume probes the context, parameters, and contours of interreligious studies (IRS), including its relation to other disciplines, its promise as a field of research in secular and nonsecular contexts, its particular terminology and methodology, its civic agenda, and the various scholarly profiles of those who pursue it. Other topics taken up include historical examples of interfaith dialogue, theological and philosophical considerations of truth-seeking in interreligious encounter, and contemporary agendas such as the decolonization of the study of religion and the obligation to respond to antisemitism, Islamophobia, and xenoglossophobia.
Whatever possibilities IRS might hold, there first must be a working definition of the field and its praxis. Interreligious Studies points in this direction as it highlights the practical knowledge generated by IRS: how to cultivate empathy, make peace and build nations, promote scholarly activism, and foster meaningful interreligious relations. Scholars and students who are serious about engaging the many dynamic conversations blossoming within this nascent field will be well served by the contributions of this volume.
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Foreword by Anna HalafoffPrefaceHans Gustafson1 IntroductionHans GustafsonPart 1. Sketching the Field2 Area, Field, DisciplineOddbjørn Leirvik3 Identifying the Field of ResearchGeir Skeie4 A Civic Approach to Interfaith StudiesEboo Patel5 The Scholar, the Theologian, and the ActivistMarianne Moyaert6 Lessons from a Liminal SaintMark E. Hanshaw7 Interreligion and InterdisciplinarityJeanine Diller8 Interreligious or Transreligious?Anne Hege GrungPart 2. History and Method9 Historical PrecedentsThomas Albert Howard10 From Comparison to ConversationFrans Wijsen11 Ethnographic Approaches and LimitationsNelly van Doorn-Harder12 Vitality of Lived Religion ApproachesHans Gustafson13 Empirical Approaches to Interreligious RelationsÅnund Brottveit14 Ecumenical and InterreligiousAaron Hollander15 Places and Spaces of EncounterTimothy ParkerPart 3. Theological and Philosophical Considerations16 Grist for Theological MillsJ. R. Hustwit17 Dialogical Theology and PraxisWolfram Weisse18 Interreligious Theology and Truth SeekingPerry Schmidt-Leukel19 Vivekananda's VisionJeffery D. LongPart 4. Contemporary Challenges20 Decolonizing the Study of ReligionKevin Minister21 Decolonizing Interreligious StudiesPaul Hedges22 Secular ImperativesKate McCarthy23 (Neo)Liberal ChallengesBrian K. Pennington24 Complicating Religious IdentityRussell C. D. Arnold25 In Reactionary TimesRachel S. Mikva26 Confronting XenoglossophobiaCaryn D. Riswold and Guenevere Black Ford27 Kairos Palestine and Autoimmune RejectionPeter A. PettitV Praxis and Possibility28 Cross-Cultural Leadership as Interfaith LeadershipBarbara A. McGraw29 Interreligious EmpathyCatherine Cornille30 Howard Thurman's Mentorship of Zalman Schachter-ShalomiOr N. Rose31 PeacebuildingNavras J. Aafreedi32 Nation BuildingAsfa Widiyanto33 Scholarship as ActivismJeannine Hill Fletcher34 Dialogue and Christian-Muslim RelationsDouglas Pratt35 Gender and Christian-Muslim RelationsDeanna Ferree Womack36 ConclusionHans Gustafson
