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Faith-Based Diplomacy as a New (and Old) Practice in Foreign Policy: Concepts and Cases
The close ties between religion and diplomacy are not new, yet in the past decades, religion has gained visibility in world affairs for various...
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Interreligious Dialogues: First Contacts of the Jewish Community in the Kumamoto’s Prefecture (Japan) During the Kofun Period
The Far East is shrouded in a great mystery that has always intrigued and stimulated Western culture. It is not easy to reconstruct the historical...
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KAICIID: An Emerging Significant Player in Global Interfaith and Development Initiatives
This chapter focuses on the initiatives of King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID)...
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A Journey Beyond Babel
How do religions and languages interact? This inquiry prompts us to explore not only various religious traditions and their respective languages but...
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Interfaith Engagement: The State of the Art
The planetary-scale problems of our current era make contemporary interfaith research, education and practice a fertile agenda for sustainable human...
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John Hick’s Religious Pluralism: Home and Abroad
The volume represents a global response to Hick's philosophy of religious pluralism. Setting out the historical and theological background against...
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Is Interreligious Dialogue Changing the Church? The Significance of the Document on Human Fraternity
The document titled “Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” signed in Abu Dhabi in February 2019 by Pope Francis and Grand Imam Ahmad...
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Interfaith Engagement Beyond the Divide Approaches, Experiences, and Practices
This book features reflections by scholars and practitioners from diverse religious traditions. It posits that the global challenges facing humanity...
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Divine Darkness and Legal Darkness: Apophasis, Cataphasis and the Making of Legal Cultures of the First Millennium
The article explores the long lost synthesis between apophatic and cataphatic theological strategies and early legal systematizations which shaped...
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Chinese Daoism and Ultimate Reality: An Interpretation Based on John Hick’s Religious Pluralism
John Hick has made significant contributions to the contemporary philosophy of religion and theology, particularly in the field of theodicy,...
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Christian Africans, Muslim Africans, and the European Colonial Project
This chapter examines intricate and varied Christian-Muslim relationships in colonized African societies. Whereas once it was assumed that European...
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Discussing God: The Effect of (Ir)Religious Identities on Topic-Sentiment Polarization in Online Debates
Amidst growing societal tensions, social media platforms become hubs of heated intergroup exchanges. According to social identity theory, group...
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From Anekānta-vāda to Sarva-tantra-sva-tantra: Pluralism About Views and Philosophical Systems
This article discusses the unique practice of many philosophers in classical India to write on several philosophical and religious systems, each time...
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Images, Metaphors, and Models in the Quest for Sustainability: The Overlap** Geography of Scientific and Religious Insights
There is a renewed interest in the role religions and Faith Based Organizations play in the global quest for sustainability, as well as in the...
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Religious Pluralism and Critical Realism
This chapter discusses Hick’s pluralism in the overall context of his critical realist interpretation of religion and his defence of a religious...
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The Study of ‘Hinduism’ and the Study of ‘Judaism’: A Personal Journey
Two religious traditions have informed my personal and academic life – Judaism and Hinduism. This is a reflection on their intersection over a period...
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American Jews, Judaism and Other Faith Communities
Eugene Korn analyzes the relationships between Jews and other faith communities in America. The contemporary Jewish interreligious agenda, derived...
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A Pneumatological Kālī-logy and Imago Dei: Contribution of the Yoginī Tantra and Hindu Goddess Traditions to Reconceptualizing the Christian Trinity
Goddess traditions have much to contribute to reflections on the feminine in Imago Dei. Christian theologians and scholars have found goddess...
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Introduction
Two central questions are the focus of discussion in this book: (1) What is the aim of interreligious dialogue? Under what conditions is this kind of...
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Framing, Negotiating and Living an Interreligious Order
This chapter notes that change is the urban context and that ‘interreligious’ is both experience of change and response to it. It considers the power...