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UNINA9910478934203321 |
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Thatamanil John J. |
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Circling the elephant : a comparative theology of religious diversity / / John J. Thatamanil |
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New York : , : Fordham University Press, , [2020] |
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1 online resource (xviii, 296 pages) |
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Comparative theology: thinking across traditions |
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Christianity and other religions |
Religious pluralism |
Religions - Relations |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface: Autobiography and Comparative Theology -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Revisiting an Old Tale -- 1. Religious Difference and Christian Theology: Thinking About, Thinking With, and Thinking Through -- 2. The Limits and Promise of Exclusivism and Inclusivism: Assessing Major Options in Theologies of Religious Diversity -- 3. No One Ascends Alone: Toward a Relational Pluralism -- 4. Comparative Theology after Religion? -- 5. Defining the Religious: Comprehensive Qualitative Orientation -- 6. The Hospitality of Receiving: Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Interreligious Learning -- 7. God as Ground, Singularity, and Relation: Trinity and Religious Diversity -- 8. This Is Not a Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
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Christian theologians have for some decades affirmed that they have no monopoly on encounters with God or ultimate reality and that other religions also have access to religious truth and transformation. If that is the case, the time has come for Christians not only to learn about but also from their religious neighbors. Circling the Elephant affirms that the best way to be truly open to the mystery of the infinite is to move away from defensive postures of religious isolationism and self- |
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sufficiency and to move, in vulnerability and openness, toward the mystery of the neighbor. Employing the ancient Indian allegory of the elephant and blind(folded) men, John J. Thatamanil argues for the integration of three often-separated theological projects: theologies of religious diversity (the work of accounting for why there are so many different understandings of the elephant), comparative theology (the venture of walking over to a different side of the elephant), and constructive theology (the endeavor of re-describing the elephant in light of the other two tasks).Circling the Elephant also offers an analysis of why we have fallen short in the past. Interreligious learning has been obstructed by problematic ideas about “religion” and “religions,” Thatamanil argues, while also pointing out the troubling resonances between reified notions of “religion” and “race.” He contests these notions and offers a new theory of the religious that makes interreligious learning both possible and desirable. Christians have much to learn from their religious neighbors, even about such central features of Christian theology as Christ and the Trinity. This book envisions religious diversity as a promise, not a problem, and proposes a new theology of religious diversity that opens the door to robust interreligious learning and Christian transformation through encountering the other. |
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UNINA9910552973203321 |
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Yassine-Diab Nadia |
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Aliénation et réinvention dans l’œuvre de Jamaica Kincaid / / Nadia Yassine-Diab |
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Montpellier, : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2021 |
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1 online resource (334 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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histoire |
colonisation |
identité |
Caraïbe |
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Caribbean literature maintains a dual relationship with the culture of the former colonizers, hesitating between resistance and imitation, deterritorialization and reterritorialization, alienation and reinvention. Jamaica Kincaid’s connection with her literary and historical heritage is a dynamic one. Her writing is postcolonial in the political more than the historical sense. Like Kincaid herself, the characters explore the boundaries between filiation and affiliation, adopting strategies of reappropriation to respond to their alienation in their relationships with their mothers. Their reclaiming of their bodies leads to self-reinvention, and to the reappropriation of history and space. Kincaid herself searches for an artistic space in which to reinvent herself. She combines photography, painting, and gardening with writing, adopting different strategies for reappropriating and decolonizing language. She writes in the oppressor’s tongue and subverts it, combining different voices in the space of her texts. L’écriture caribéenne entretient un double rapport avec la culture des anciens colons, oscillant entre résistance et imitation, déterritorialisation et reterritorialisation, aliénation et réinvention. Jamaica Kincaid est dans une relation |
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dynamique avec son héritage littéraire et historique. Son écriture se veut postcoloniale au sens politique plus qu’historique du terme. À l’instar de Kincaid elle-même, les personnages kincaidiens explorent les limites entre filiation et affiliation : face à l’aliénation de la jeune fille dans la relation à sa mère, elle met en place des stratégies de réappropriation. Réappropriation du corps, qui mène à la réinvention du moi, mais aussi réappropriation de l’histoire et de l’espace. Kincaid est elle-même à la recherche d’un espace artistique dans lequel se réinventer : photographie, peinture et jardinage se mêlent ainsi à son écriture, et s’ajoutent à diverses stratégies de réappropriation et de décolonisation de la langue.… |
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