Ulrich Winkler is Extraordinary Professor of Systematic Theology and Co-Director of the Centre for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies at Salzburg University, Austria.Lidia Rodríguez Fernández, is biblical lecturer at the University of Deusto (Bilbao and Donostia) in Spain. She has published several articles on religious diversity and secularization in the Basque Country. Oddbjørn Leirvik is Professor of Interreligious Studies at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo, Norway.

• ContentsDedicationPrefacePart I - Approaching the ToposChapter 1. In Search of Pastoral Power: Religious Confrontations with Thirdspace - Hans-Joachim SanderChapter 2. Texts as Places of Sacred Meeting: Towards an Ethic for Comparative and Interreligious Readings and Transgressions - Paul HedgesChapter 3. Interreligious Studies: A New Academic Discipline? - Oddbjørn LeirvikChapter 4. Religious Identities in Third Space: The Location of Comparative Theology - Ulrich WinklerPart II - Changing SpacesChapter 5. The Maps and Tours of Theological Knowledge: Reading Melchior Cano’s De Locis Theologicis after the Spatial Turn - Judith GruberChapter 6. Sacred Time as Sacred Space: The Spaces of Memory and Anticipation in Christianity and Judaism - Emma O’DonnellChapter 7. Metaphors We Dialogue By: Spatial Metaphors in the Common Word Dialogue Process - Vebjørn L.HorsfjordChapter 8. Hagia Sophia and the Third Space. An Enquiry into the Discursive Construction of Religious Sites - Sigrid RettenbacherChapter 9. Reform in a Muslim Context: Contested Interpretations Through Time and Space - Yaser EllethyChapter 10. The Location of Religion in Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball: Common Ground Prior to ‘Religious’ and ‘Secular’? - Henry JansenPart III - Theological Transgression: Facing the Other in Migration and GenderChapter 11. Christian Migrants and the Theology of Space and Place - Mechteld JansenChapter 12. Transreligious Critical Hermeneutics and Gender Studies: Contested Gendered Spaces - Anne Hege GrungChapter 13. Claiming Space for Women: Women Reading Scripture in Critical Dialogue - Gé SpeelmanPart IV - Islam in SpainChapter 14. The Reconquista Reversed? Muslim Presence in Contemporary Spain - John ChesworthChapter 15. Blazing Light and Perfect Death: The Martyrs of Córdoba and the Growth of Polemical Holiness - Aaron T. HollanderChapter 16. From Acceptance to Religious Freedom: Considerations for Convivencia in Medieval Spain and Multireligious Coexistence Today - Mariano DelgadoPart V - The Basque Country: Sharing Space as a Minority ReligionChapter 17. Religious Minorities and Access to Public Space in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country and in Navarre: The Perspective of Religious Minorities - Lidia Rodríguez Fernández and Luzio Uriarte GanzálezChapter 18. Contested Spaces and Religious Minorities: The Basque Experience and the Swiss Pyrenees - Eduardo J Ruiz VieytezChapter 19. Scenarios of Interreligious Dialogue in the Basque Country - José Luis Villacorta NúñezPart VI - Space and Eastern ReligionChapter 20. The Secular and the Sacred as Contested Spaces? A Cross-Cultural Hermeneutical Investigation into Western and Chinese Perspectives - André van der BraakChapter 21. A Style for Better Understanding: A Buddhist-Christian Approach to ‘Truly Beautiful Spaces’ - Sybille Fritsch-OppermannChapter 22. Time and History in Buddhist-Christian Relations - John D’Arcy MayPart VII - Europe and the CityChapter 23. Europe as a Contested Space and European Cities as Shifting Symbols of Europe throughout History: Historical Changes in the Spatial Orientation of Europe and its Images of ‘Europeanness’ - Lourens MinnemaChapter 24. The Festival as Heterotopia in the City as Shared Religious Space - Jaco BeyersChapter 25. Between Fear, Freedom, and Control: Islam and the Construction of a Modern European Identity - Lucien van LiereIndex of SubjectsIndex of NamesContributors to this Volume