Interreligious studies : a relational approach to religious activism and the study of religion. /

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Author / Creator:Leirvik, Oddbjørn.
Imprint:New York, N.Y. : Bloomsbury, 2015
©2015
Description:196 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10874214
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ISBN:9781474254755
1474254756
Notes:Includes bibliographical references ( pages 175-187) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : religious activism, interfaith dialogue, and interreligious studies
  • A relational approach to the study of religion
  • Philosophies of interreligious dialogue : practice in search of theory
  • Interreligious dialogue and secularity
  • The image of the Other and othering discourses
  • Faith-based diplomacy and interfaith activism : dialogue from above and below
  • Tolerance, conscience, and solidarity : globalized concepts in ethical and religious education?
  • Interreligious hermeneutics and the ethical critique of the scriptures
  • The sacred space between : a relational theology in dialogue with Islam
  • Interreligious studies and interfaith dialogue, in academia
  • Postscript : united against extremism?