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Book SynopsisExamines different traditions' understandings of the stranger, the "other"
Trade Review"The subject is critical. In our pluralistic world, the need to encounter the stranger is not only a question of hospitality. It is a matter of our survival. Given the enormity of our global issues, it is clear that no one nation, culture, or religion can solve the problems. We simply have to co-operate and collaborate." -Imam Jamal Rahman, author of The Fragrance of Faith: The Enlightened Heart of Islam "Encountering the Stranger is an exciting, rewarding book, a pathbreaking work full of theological treasures, insights, and stimulating ideas." -Martin Rumscheidt, Atlantic School of Theology "This is an important scholarly event, a teaching tool, and a resource for clergy formation and informal adult religious studies. The prominence of the contributors will help the book reach a wide range of constituencies and the accessible presentation of the divergent perspectives gathered here will grip readers." George R. Wilkes, University of Edinburgh
Table of ContentsPrologue: Trialogue Is the Way
Leonard Grob and John K. Roth
i. In The Shadow of the Holocaust: Safeguarding the Stranger
1 "You Shall Not Murder": A Foundation for Trialogue?
John K. Roth
2 Whom May I Kill?
Zayn Kassam
3"Where Is Your Brother?": Jewish Teachings on the "Stranger"
David Patterson
4?Canopies of Hospitality: Post-Shoah Christian Faith and Making Room for Others?
Henry F. Knight
5 The Place of Non-Muslims in the Islamic Concept of the "Other": The Need for Rethinking Islamic Tradition in the Pursuit
of Religious Pluralism
Bassam Tibi
6 The Jewish Roots of Emmanuel Levinas's
Metaphysics of Welcome
Leonard Grob
ii. The "Other" in the Scripture and Tradition: Valuing the Stranger
7 Encountering the Stranger in Classic Rabbinic Judaism
Peter J. Haas
8 Encountering the Stranger: Aspects of Medieval Christianity
Margaret Brearley
9Noah and Others: Pluralism in Ancient and Modern Judaism
Rochelle L. Millen
10Normative Islamic (Qur'anic) Teachings on Pluralism: Reflections on "The People of the Book"
Riffat Hassan
11 Reflexivity and Tawallî between Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Bülent Senay
12 Encountering the Other: Enemy or Stranger?
Hubert G. Locke
iii. The Hospitality of Pluralism: Welcoming the Stranger
13 Ora
Henry Greenspan
14Bearers of the Rings: Reflections on Christian Spirituality and the Theology of Religions
Britta Frede-Wenger
15 Litarafoo: The Dialogical Method
Sana Tayyen
16 Loving the Stranger: Intimacy between Jews and Non-Jews
Rachel N. Baum
17 When Certainty Becomes Immaterial
Khaleel Mohammed
18 Interreligious Dialogue beyond Absolutism, Relativism, and
Particularism: A Catholic Approach to Religious Diversity
Didier Pollefeyt
Epilogue: What Should Be Remembered?
Leonard Grob and John K. Roth
Selected Bibliography
Editors and Contributors
Index?
