Interreligious hermeneutics in pluralistic Europe : between texts and people /

Interreligious hermeneutics in pluralistic Europe : between texts and people /

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 Euro...

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Corporate Author: European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies.

Other Authors: Cheetham, David

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.

Series: Currents of Encounter 40.
Rodopi Religion, Theology and Philosophy Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357938.

Subjects:

Religions > Relations.
Religion.
Religious pluralism.
Europe > Religion.
Europe.

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Call Number: BL695 .I57 2011

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Summary: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.
Item Description:Book inspired by discussions after the second conference of the European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies held in Salzburg, Austria, April 15-17, 2009.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 449 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789401200370
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