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Author: Professor Oddbjørn Leirvik (University of Oslo, Norway)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.472kg
ISBN: 9781472524492
ISBN 10: 1472524497
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 13 February 2014
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This book is valuable and a scholarly contribution to inter-religious and interfaith dialogue. As many of us in the religious academia are critically engaged to determine the place of inter-religious and interfaith dialogue in the academic study of religion, this book makes a remarkable contribution to this discussion. The Book will serve as a guide to the interfaith community to learn from the experience of interfaith dialogue in Norway and how to expand on their own. -- Muhammad Shafiq, Professor & Executive Director, The Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue, Nazareth College, USA Professor Leirvik has provided us with an insightful and stimulating introduction to the emerging field of Interreligious Studies that is likely to be an important and standard work in this area for years to come. Not only does he explain the rationale and background to this new and emerging field, but he also seeks to expand its boundaries and set out a compelling vision for it. At the heart of this is the concept of relationality which is explored with much nuance and clarity. The book draws many important theorists into the debate, and is at the cutting edge of thinking about interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work in the study of religion, especially at the intersection of fields like theology, Religious Studies, ethics, critical theory, and sociology. All scholars who see their work as in any way related to the growing field of Interreligious Studies will feel indebted to Leirvik for this book. -- Dr Paul Hedges, Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies, University of Winchester, UK
This book is valuable and a scholarly contribution to inter-religious and interfaith dialogue. As many of us in the religious academia are critically engaged to determine the place of inter-religious and interfaith dialogue in the academic study of religion, this book makes a remarkable contribution to this discussion. It will serve as a guide to the interfaith community to learn from the experience of interfaith dialogue in Norway and how to expand on their own. -- Muhammad Shafiq, Professor & Executive Director, The Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue, Nazareth College, USA Professor Leirvik has provided us with an insightful and stimulating introduction to the emerging field of Interreligious Studies that is likely to be an important and standard work in this area for years to come. Not only does he explain the rationale and background to this new and emerging field, but he also seeks to expand its boundaries and set out a compelling vision for it. At the heart of this is the concept of relationality which is explored with much nuance and clarity. The book draws many important theorists into the debate, and is at the cutting edge of thinking about interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work in the study of religion, especially at the intersection of fields like theology, Religious Studies, ethics, critical theory, and sociology. All scholars who see their work as in any way related to the growing field of Interreligious Studies will feel indebted to Leirvik for this book. -- Dr Paul Hedges, Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies, University of Winchester, UK
This book is valuable and a scholarly contribution to inter-religious and interfaith dialogue. As many of us in the religious academia are critically engaged to determine the place of inter-religious and interfaith dialogue in the academic study of religion, this book makes a remarkable contribution to this discussion. The Book will serve as a guide to the interfaith community to learn from the experience of interfaith dialogue at Norway and how to expand on their own. -- Muhammad Shafiq, Professor & Executive Director, The Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue, Nazareth College, USA Professor Leirvik has provided us with an insightful and stimulating introduction to the emerging field of Interreligious Studies that is likely to be an important and standard work in this area for years to come. Not only does he explain the rationale and background to this new and emerging field, but he also seeks to expand its boundaries and set out a compelling vision for it. At the heart of this is the concept of relationality which is explored with much nuance and clarity. The book draws many important theorists into the debate, and is at the cutting edge of thinking about interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work in the study of religion, especially at the intersection of fields like theology, Religious Studies, ethics, critical theory, and sociology. All scholars who see their work as in any way related to the growing field of Interreligious Studies will feel indebted to Leirvik for this book. -- Dr Paul Hedges, Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies, University of Winchester, UK
Author Information
Oddbjørn Leirvik is Professor of Interreligious Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is co-initiator of the European Society of Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies, and has written extensively in English and Norwegian on Christian-Muslim Relations and Interreligious Dialogue.
