Weiße / Amirpur / Körs Religions and Dialogue

International Approaches
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8309-8036-0
Verlag: Waxmann Verlag GmbH
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 321 Seiten

Responding to plurality is a demanding task. Nonetheless it is one of the challenges that European countries are facing today. Over the past decades, the social and religious make-up of Central Europe has changed, and this has led to resentment and fears of mass immigration, social disintegration and the emergence of parallel societies. However, we also find empirical proof that prejudice is lowest where there is direct contact. Therefore, there appears to be an increasing need for more dialogue in order to make the stranger less strange, the unknown known, the other no longer entirely other. This is equally true in academic research: There is a definite need, yet research on questions of interreligious dialogue remains in its infancy throughout the various disciplines engaged in it. The project 'Religion and Dialogue in Modern Societies' (ReDi) that started at the Academy of World Religions at the Hamburg University in 2011 seeks to contribute to remedying this deficit. Like the ReDi-Project, this book looks at dialogue from different perspectives. It includes both theoretical and empirical approaches as well as a variety of theological viewpoints on a theology of plurality and dialogue from the perspective of different religions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weiße, Wolfram

Amirpur, Katajun

Körs, Anna

Vieregge, Dörthe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Buchtitel;1
2;Contents ;6
3;Introduction;8
4;Religion, Society and Dialogue:
Theoretical Approaches;20
4.1;Secularisation, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship;22
4.2;Values and Religion;34
4.3;Philosophy of Dialogical Encounter with the World;42
5;Religious Diversity and the Need for Dialogue: Empirical Approaches;48
5.1;Global Migration, Religious Diversity and Dialogue;50
5.2;Attitudes towards Members of Different Religious Communities in Five European Countries;64
5.3;The Dialogos Project. ;76
5.4;The Many Faces of Dialogue;86
6;Thelogy in Plural: Interreligious and Dialogical Approaches;100
6.1;Intercultural Theology as Interreligious Theology;102
6.2;Dialogue from a Christian and Muslim Perspective;114
7;Dialogue in Jewish Thinking;124
7.1;Building Stones for an Interreligious Dialogue and Theology;126
8;Dialogue in Christianity;138
8.1;Jesus Christ as a Stumbling Block in Interreligious Dialogue?;140
8.2;In Search of a ‘New We’ Connecting the Differences ;152
8.3;Inter Religious Relations and the English Model of Church Establishment in Nation and Parish ;168
9;Dialogue in Islam;186
9.1;“Straight Paths”;188
9.2;Religious Pluralism and the Qur’an;202
9.3;Islam and Interfaith Dialogue;216
10;Dialogue in Hinduism;232
10.1;The Nature and Authority of Scripture;234
11;Dialogue in Buddhism;244
11.1;Interreligious Dialogue in Buddhism from
a Gender Perspective;246
11.2;Buddhism and Dialogue: On Zen and the West;284
11.3;Multifaith Dialogue;296
11.4;Dialogue in Buddhism;308
12;List of Authors;319