Friendship across Religions

Alon Goshen-Gottstein is founder and director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute. A noted scholar of Jewish studies, he has held academic posts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University and has served as director of the Center for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morasha College, Jerusalem.

Better understanding of self and other, on its own, is enough reason to value highly the importance of interreligious friendship and to include this text in any contemporary canon on interreligious studies. The volume concludes with a useful eightfold shared manifesto on interreligious friendship which can also be publicly accessed at elijah-interfaith.org/addressing-the-world/friendship-across-religions.

• Foreword, Alon Goshen-GottsteinOverview: Introducing Interreligious Friendship: Types of Friendship, Alon Goshen-GottsteinSummary of Essays on Interreligious Friendship, Stephen Butler MurrayIntroduction: Friendship Across Religions—Project Overview and Synthesis, Alon Goshen-GottsteinChapter 1: Understanding Jewish Friendship, Extending Friendship beyond Judaism, Alon Goshen-GottsteinChapter 2: Very Two as Very One: A Response to Understanding Jewish Friendship, Meir SendorChapter 3: A Christian Perspective on Interreligious Friendship, Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-LinzChapter 4: The Sacramentality of Inter-religious Friendship, Johann M. VentoChapter 5: Toward a Muslim Theology of Interreligious Friendship, Timothy J. GianottiChapter 6: “Love Speaking to Love”: Friendship Across Religious Traditions, Anantanand RambachanChapter 7: Interreligious Friendship: Insights from the Sikh Tradition, Eleanor NesbittChapter 8: Sikh Perspective on Friendship: Inside View, Balwant Singh DhillonConclusion: Friendship Across Religions: An Interreligious Manifesto, Alon Goshen-Gottstein