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Interreligious Events in the Public Space: Performing Togetherness in Times of Religious Pluralism
This chapter analyzes the spread and global diffusion of interreligious public events that are intended to commemorate traumatic memories, to mourn...
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Fostering Interreligious Encounters in Pluralist Societies Hospitality and Friendship
This book calls attention to ways of fostering dialogue among members of different religious traditions in an era of cultural and religious...
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The Religious Educational Habitus of Islamic Religion Teachers. A Reconstructive Study of Collective Frameworks of Orientation in the Context of (Inter-) Religious Education
Islamic religious pedagogy is sort of a poor relative in educational and directional discourse in Austria. In particular, the perspective of the...
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Introduction
Over the last few years, we have witnessed a surge in protest movements around the world. As planet Earth shows its vulnerability and a global...
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Contemporary Trends in (Post)secular Higher Education
Besides problems related to secularization highlighted in the previous chapter, there recently has been (1) a renewed interest in matters related to...
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The Philosophy of Friendship and Its Place in Constructing Interreligious Encounters
This chapter will explore the role of friendship can play in making sure that relationships built on hospitality can endure the tensions that...
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Migration and the Mystical-Theological Tradition: Migration Experiences and the Experience of a Dark Night
In this chapter, I address the theological discourse on migration and spirituality and mediate a correlation between narratives of African migrants...
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African Eco-feminisms: African Women Writing Earth, Gender and the Sacred
The chapter’s exposition highlights that African eco-feminisms are founded upon African cosmologies; African histories; and contemporary experiences...
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Fixing a God’s Mess: Jewish Tikkun Olam and Interreligious Action
The concept of tikkun olam, often translated as “repairing the world,” has spread widely as a popular name for Jewish social and environmental...
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Taking the Liturgical Turn in Comparative Theology: Monastic Interreligious Dialogue as a Supporting Case
What would it mean to take a liturgical turn in comparative theology? The author considers this enterprise as one in which learning across religious...
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Broadening the Scope of Interreligious Studies: Interrituality
The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a radical shift in the relations between religions (Swidler, Death or Dialogue: From the Age of...
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Transcending the Letter, Awakening the Mind: Maximos the Confessor and Tsong kha pa and the Challenge of Textual Supersessionism
The goal of this chapter will compare and contrast two allegorical traditions of lectio divina, focusing on the Byzantine author Maximos the...
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Open Temple and Dialogical Church: How to Fulfill the Reform of Paul and the Protestant Reformation? A Keynote Address
It is the task of contemporary Christians to continue the reforms begun by Paul and Luther, especially in areas where they were not successful. The...
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Pope Francis’ Four Words to Meet the Challenge of Migrations: Welcoming, Protecting, Promoting and Integrating
Pope Francis’ commitment to help the Catholic Church and society meet the challenges posed by migrations is widely acknowledged. From the beginning...
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Nostra Aetate 2: Between Dialogue and Proclamation
This chapter engages with a popular passage from Vatican II’s Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate...
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The Inter-Religious Council of Uganda and Development
This chapter analyses the efforts of the Interreligious Council of Uganda (IRCU) in the holistic development of Uganda. Starting with a meta-survey...
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A Grounded Theory of Spiritual Leadership and Social Transformation : A Case Study of Peacebuilding and Human Rights Advocacy Interventions
This chapter addresses the conventional belief that Christian religious leaders are tasked with converting individuals into their “one true...
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Al-Fana’ in Ibn ‘Arabi’s and Eckhart’s Thoughts: The Annihilation of the Many in the One
This chapter discusses the mystical concept of al-fana’ in the thoughts of the Muslim mystic Muhyi al-Din ibn ‘Arabi (d. 1240) and the Christian...
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Reversals and Reconstructions: The Place of Interreligious Rituals of Reconciliation in Forming a New Relationship Between Indigenous and Non-indigenous Canadians
As Canadian churches seek to atone for their role in the colonial subjugation of Indigenous peoples and particularly for running residential schools...