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UNINA9910794051703321 |
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Autore |
Thatamanil John J. |
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Titolo |
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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©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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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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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-sufficiency and to move, in vulnerability and openness, toward the |
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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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UNINA9910960080303321 |
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Autore |
Eyraud Luc |
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Madagascar : : A Competitiveness and Exchange Rate Assessment / / Luc Eyraud |
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Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009 |
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9786612843228 |
9781462366873 |
1462366872 |
9781451872545 |
1451872542 |
9781451988277 |
1451988273 |
9781282843226 |
1282843222 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Competition - Madagascar |
Foreign exchange rates - Madagascar |
Competition |
Currency |
Exchange rates |
Export performance |
Exports and Imports |
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Finance |
Finance: General |
Foreign Exchange |
Foreign exchange |
General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) |
International economics |
Real effective exchange rates |
Real exchange rates |
Trade: General |
Madagascar, Republic of |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- I. Introduction -- II. Export Performance of Madagascar -- A. Export Acceleration and Better Trade Specialization Since the 1990s -- B. Decline in Market Share Since the 1990s -- III. Price Competitiveness: A Descriptive Analysis -- A. Real Depreciation of the Ariary During the 1980s -- B. Real Appreciation of the Ariary since 2004 -- IV. Price Competitiveness: Exchange Rate Assessment -- A. The Macroeconomic Balance Approach -- B. The External Sustainability Approach -- C. The Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate Approach -- V. Nonprice Competitiveness: A Descriptive Analysis -- A. Assessment of Structural Competitiveness -- B. Constraints on Trade and Business in Madagascar and Mauritius -- VI. Conclusions and Policy Implications -- APPENDIX -- List of Figures -- 1: Growth in Export Volume -- 2: Structure of Exports in Value -- 3: Nominal Market Share Since 1980 -- 4: Market Share in Nominal and Real Terms since 1990 -- 5: Real Market Share Relative to SADC and Asian Competitors -- 6: Real Effective Exchange Rate -- 7: Consumer Price Index -- 8: Nominal and Real Effective Exchange Rates -- 9: Results from the MB Method -- 10: NEP-Stabilizing CA -- 11: Actual and Estimated REER of the Ariary -- 12: Composite Indicators of Competitiveness -- 13: Trading Across Borders Index -- List of Tables -- 1: Wage and Nonwage Costs in Madagascar and Comparator Countries -- 2: Summary of the Results from the Three Methods -- 3: Comparison of Madagascar and Mauritius on World Bank Surveys -- 4: Assumptions Underlying the Three Cases -- 5: Current Account Elasticity Formulas -- 6: Estimates of the Export and Import Elasticities -- 7: Estimates of the Current Account Elasticity -- 8: Panel Unit Root Tests -- 9: Panel Cointegration Tests -- 10: Panel Estimates. |
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The purpose of this paper is to assess Madagascar's competitiveness in recent years, using both price and nonprice indicators and an exchange rate assessment of the currency. We estimate the distance between the equilibrium and the actual real exchange rates using three methods: the macroeconomic balance approach, the external sustainability approach, and the reduced-form equilibrium real exchange rate approach. These methods suggest that in the medium term the real exchange rate is only slightly overvalued. We also carry out a comparative analysis of nonprice indicators and find that Madagascar performs less favorably than its competitors on structural competitiveness. |
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