Description
Book SynopsisBrings together scholars from four continents to produce “dispatches” on the current state of this burgeoning field. The volume probes the context, parameters, and contours of interreligious studies, including its relation to other disciplines, its promise as a field of research, its particular terminology and methodology, and its civic agenda.
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Anna Halafoff
- Preface—Hans Gustafson
- 1 Introduction—Hans Gustafson
- Part 1. Sketching the Field
- 2 Area, Field, Discipline—Oddbjørn Leirvik
- 3 Identifying the Field of Research—Geir Skeie
- 4 A Civic Approach to Interfaith Studies—Eboo Patel
- 5 The Scholar, the Theologian, and the Activist—Marianne Moyaert
- 6 Lessons from a Liminal Saint—Mark E. Hanshaw
- 7 Interreligion and Interdisciplinarity—Jeanine Diller
- 8 Interreligious or Transreligious?—Anne Hege Grung
- Part 2. History and Method
- 9 Historical Precedents—Thomas Albert Howard
- 10 From Comparison to Conversation—Frans Wijsen
- 11 Ethnographic Approaches and Limitations—Nelly van Doorn-Harder
- 12 Vitality of Lived Religion Approaches—Hans Gustafson
- 13 Empirical Approaches to Interreligious Relations—Ånund Brottveit
- 14 Ecumenical and Interreligious—Aaron Hollander
- 15 Places and Spaces of Encounter—Timothy Parker
- Part 3. Theological and Philosophical Considerations
- 16 Grist for Theological Mills—J. R. Hustwit
- 17 Dialogical Theology and Praxis—Wolfram Weisse
- 18 Interreligious Theology and Truth Seeking—Perry Schmidt-Leukel
- 19 Vivekananda's Vision—Jeffery D. Long
- Part 4. Contemporary Challenges
- 20 Decolonizing the Study of Religion—Kevin Minister
- 21 Decolonizing Interreligious Studies—Paul Hedges
- 22 Secular Imperatives—Kate McCarthy
- 23 (Neo)Liberal Challenges—Brian K. Pennington
- 24 Complicating Religious Identity—Russell C. D. Arnold
- 25 In Reactionary Times—Rachel S. Mikva
- 26 Confronting Xenoglossophobia—Caryn D. Riswold and Guenevere Black Ford
- 27 Kairos Palestine and Autoimmune Rejection—Peter A. Pettit
- V Praxis and Possibility
- 28 Cross-Cultural Leadership as Interfaith Leadership—Barbara A. McGraw
- 29 Interreligious Empathy—Catherine Cornille
- 30 Howard Thurman's Mentorship of Zalman Schachter-Shalomi—Or N. Rose
- 31 Peacebuilding—Navras J. Aafreedi
- 32 Nation Building—Asfa Widiyanto
- 33 Scholarship as Activism—Jeannine Hill Fletcher
- 34 Dialogue and Christian–Muslim Relations—Douglas Pratt
- 35 Gender and Christian–Muslim Relations—Deanna Ferree Womack
- 36 Conclusion—Hans Gustafson
