Overview

At the second major conference held in Salzburg in 2009 of The European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS), participants probed the broad theme of 'interreligious hermeneutics in a pluralistic Europe'. Due to the phenomenon of an increasingly plural Europe, questions arise about how we see each other's cultural heritage, religious traditions and sacred scriptures. Following the discussions that took place at the conference, this book focuses on the usage of texts in our global and mass media world, the possibility of 'scriptural reasoning', the theological comparison of selected topics from religious traditions by scholars belonging to multiple religions or interreligious communities of scholars, the pragmatics of using sacred texts in social contexts of family and gender, polemical attacks on the other's sacred text and the challenge to interreligious hermeneutics of the postcolonial deconstruction of religion by cultural studies. The future of interreligious hermeneutics is going to be complex. This book exhibits the multiple agendas - power, gender, postcolonialism, globalisation, dialogue, tradition, polemics - that will have a stake in these future debates.

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Author:   David Cheetham ,  Ulrich Winkler ,  Oddbjorn Leirvik ,  Judith Gruber
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   40
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.846kg
ISBN:  

9789042033375

ISBN 10:   9042033371
Pages:   450
Publication Date:   01 January 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Preface Uses of Texts Sigrid Rettenbacher: One Text - Different Meanings? The Notification on Jacques Dupuis in the Light of the Second Vatican Council Pim Valkenberg: Sifting the Qur'an: Two Forms of Interreligious Hermeneutics in Nicholas of Cusa David Slakter: An Exposition and Defence of Jayanta Bhatta's Inclusivism Scriptural Reasoning and Interreligious Hermeneutics Nicholas Adams: Scriptural Reasoning and Interfaith Hermeneutics Helene Egnell: Scriptural Reasoning: A Feminist Response Elizabeth J. Harris: Scriptural Reasoning or Symbiosis: Can an Asian Paradigm Have a Message for Europe? Magdalen Lambkin: Towards an Interreligious Hermeneutic of Scripture: Problems and Possibilities Comparative Theology Francis X. Clooney SJ: Comparative Theology - As Theology Albertina Nugteren: Entitled to Understand: A Critical Look at Comparative Theology Marianne Moyaert: Comparative Theology in Search of a Hermeneutical Framework Hendrik Rungelrath: Confessional and Comparative Theology: Counterparts or Complements? Paul Hedges: Guanyin, Queer Theology, and Subversive Religiosity: An Experiment in Interreligious Theology Ulrich Winkler: What is Comparative Theology? Sacred Text and Social Context Anne Sofie Roald: European Islamic Gender Discourses Susanne Scholz: The Forbidden Fruit for the New Eve: The Christian Right's Adaptation to the (Post)modern World Martin Rotting: Interreligious Learning: The Shaping of Interreligious Identity in Pluralistic Europe Oddbjorn Leirvik: Interreligious Hermeneutics and the Ethical Critique of the Scriptures Polemical Revival John Chesworth: Polemical Revival: Attacking the Other's Texts Interreligious Hermeneutics in the Light of the Postcolonial Deconstruction of Religion Andreas Nehring: On the Communication of Sacred Texts: Intercultural Comparison or Intercultural Encounter Judith Gruber: Culture/s as a Theological Challenge: Towards a Systematic Approach to Intercultural Theology Xavier Gravend-Tirole: Double Commitment: or The Case for Religious Mestizaje (Creolization) Index of Subjects Contributors

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