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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779060303321

Titolo

Between terror and tolerance [[electronic resource] ] : religious leaders, conflict, and peacemaking / / Timothy D. Sisk, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-58901-797-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SiskTimothy D. <1960->

Disciplina

201/.7273

Soggetti

Political violence - Religious aspects

Violence - Religious aspects

Terrorism - Religious aspects

Toleration - Religious aspects

Terror - Religious aspects

Religion and politics

Peace - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: religious leaders, conflict, and peacemaking / Timothy D. Sisk -- Religion, nationalism, and intolerance / David Little -- Religious leaders, sectarianism, and the Sunni-Shi'a divide in Islam / Nader Hashemi -- Between intolerance and coexistence: the Vatican, Maronites, and the war in Lebanon / George Emile Irani -- Globalization, religion, and nationalism in Israel and Palestine / Micheline Ishay -- Egypt and the legacy of sectarianism / Scott W. Hibbard -- Religion, war, and peacekeeping in Sudan: Shari'a, identity politics, and human rights / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban -- Nigeria's religious leaders in an age of radicalism and neoliberalism / Rosalind I. J. Hackett -- Just enough to hate - not enough to love: religious leaders in Northern Ireland / Mari Fitzduff -- Religion, war, and peace in Tajikistan / Karina Korostelina -- The spoiler and the reconciler: Buddhism and the peace process in Sri Lanka / Susan Hayward -- Piety and politics: religious leadership and the conflict in Kashmir / Sumit Ganguly and Praveen Swami -- Conclusion: From terror to tolerance to coexistence in deeply divided societies / Timothy D. Sisk.



Sommario/riassunto

Civil war and conflict within countries is the most prevalent threat to peace and security in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. A pivotal factor in the escalation of tensions to open conflict is the role of elites in exacerbating tensions along identity lines by giving the ideological justification, moral reasoning, and call to violence. Between Terror and Tolerance examines the varied roles of religious leaders in societies deeply divided by ethnic, racial, or religious conflict. The chapters in this book explore cases when religious leaders have justified or catalyzed violence

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796350403321

Titolo

How to Do Comparative Theology / / Klaus von Stosch, Francis X. Clooney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2017]

©2018

ISBN

0-8232-8051-9

0-8232-7843-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions ; ; 2

Disciplina

202.07

Soggetti

Religion - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. The Problem of Choice in Comparative Theology -- 2. Reflecting on Approaches to Jesus in the Qur’ān from the Perspective of Comparative Theology -- 3. The Moment of Truth -- 4. Rhetorics of Theological One-Upsmanship in Christianity and Buddhism -- 5. “An Interpreter and Not a Judge”: Insights into a Christian- Islamic Comparative Theology -- 6. On Some Suspicions Regarding Comparative Theology -- 7. Embodiment, Anthropology, and Comparison -- 8. Comparative Theology After the Shoah -- 9. Using Comparative Insights in Developing Kalām -- 10. Difficult Remainders -- 11. Sagi Nahor— Enough Light -- 12. Methodological Considerations on the Role of Experience in



Comparative Theology -- 13. Incarnational Speech -- 14. Living Interreligiously -- 15. Theologizing for the Yoga Community? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

For a generation and more, the contribution of Christian theology to interreligious understanding has been a subject of debate. Some think of theological perspectives are of themselves inherently too narrow to support interreligious learning, and argue for an approach that is neutral or, on a more popular level, grounded simply open-minded direct experience. In response, comparative theology argues that theology, as faith seeking understanding, offers a vital perspective and a way of advancing interreligious dialogue, aided rather than hindered by commitments; theological perspectives can both complement and step beyond the study of religions by methods detached and merely neutral. Thus comparative theology has been successful in persuading many that interreligious learning from one faith perspective to another is both possible and worthwhile, and so the work of comparative theology has become more recognized and established globally. With this success there has come to the fore new challenges regarding method: How does one do comparative theological work in a way that is theologically grounded, genuinely open to learning from the other, sophisticated in pursuing comparisons, and fruitful on both the academic and practical levels? How To Do Comparative Theology therefore contributes to the maturation of method in the field of comparative theological studies, learning across religious borders, by bringing together essays drawing on different Christian traditions of learning, Judaism and Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, the wisdom of senior scholars, and also insights from a younger generation of scholars who have studied theology and religion in new ways, and are more attuned to the language of the “spiritual but not religious.” The essays in this volume show great diversity in method, and also—over and again and from many angles—coherence in intent, a commitment to one learning from the other, and a confidence that one’s home tradition benefits from fair and unhampered learning from other and very different spiritual and religious traditions. It therefore shows the diversity and coherence of comparative theology as an emerging discipline today.