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Migration as a Sign of the Times
Towards a Theology of Migration
Av Judith Gruber, Sigrid Rettenbacher
Häftad, 2015
1058 kr
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Migrations are contested sites of identity negotiations: they are not simply a process of border crossings but more so of border shiftings. Rather than allowing migrants to swiftly move across stable borders from one clearly defined identity to another, migrations question and renegotiate these …
Gender Justice in Muslim-Christian Readings
Christian and Muslim Women in Norway: Making Meaning of Texts from the Bible, the Koran, and the Hadith
Häftad, 2015
1397 kr
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In recent decades, women in the Christian and Islamic traditions have been negotiating what it means to participate in religious practice as a woman within the two traditions, and how to interpret canonical scripture. This book creates a shared space for Muslim and Christian women with diverse …
Twenty-First Century Theologies of Religions
Retrospection and Future Prospects
Häftad, 2016
1436 kr
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Within Christian theology, debates on the theology of religions have intensified over the last thirty or so years. This volume surveys the field and maps future directions in this expanding and important area of research. Both established experts and new voices address typological debates, …
Contested Spaces, Common Ground
Space and Power Structures in Contemporary Multireligious Societies
Häftad, 2016
1345 kr
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Spaces are produced and shaped by discourses and, in turn, produce and shape discourses themselves. ‘Space’ is becoming a significant and complex concept for the encounter between people, cultures, religions, ideologies, politics, between histories and memories, the advantaged and the …
Jain Approaches to Plurality
Identity as Dialogue
Häftad, 2017
914 kr
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In Jain Approaches to Plurality Melanie Barbato offers a new perspective on the Jain teaching of plurality (anekāntavāda) and how it allowed Jains to engage with other discourses from Indian inter-school philosophy to global interreligious dialogue. Jainism, one of the world’s oldest religions, has …
Common Words in Muslim-Christian Dialogue
A study of texts from the Common Word dialogue process
Häftad, 2017
1061 kr
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In Common Words in Muslim-Christian Dialogue Vebjørn L. Horsfjord offers an analysis of texts from an international dialogue process between Christian and Muslim leaders. Through detailed engagement with the Muslim dialogue letter A Common Word between Us and You (2007) and a large number of …
Hope and Otherness: Christian Eschatology and Interreligious Hospitality
Häftad, 2017
1084 kr
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In Hope and Otherness, Jakob Wirén analyses the place and role of the religious Other in contemporary eschatology. In connection with this theme, he examines and compares different levels of inclusion and exclusion in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish eschatologies. He argues that a distinction should …
Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Interreligious Hermeneutics
Ways of Seeing the Religious Other
Häftad, 2018
914 kr
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Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Interreligious Hermeneutics: Ways of Seeing the Religious Other, edited by Emma O’Donnell Polyakov, examines the hermeneutics of interreligious encounter in contexts of conflict. It investigates the implicit judgments of Judaism and Islam that often arise in response …
Walking on the Pages of the Word of God
Self, Land, and Text Among Evangelical Volunteers in Jerusalem
Av Aron Engberg
Häftad, 2019
914 kr
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In Walking on the Pages of the Word of God Aron Engberg explores the religious language and identities of evangelical volunteer workers in contemporary Jerusalem. The volunteers are connected to Christian organizations which consider their work a natural consequence of the biblical promises to …
Religious Pluralism and Pragmatist Theology
Openness and Resistance
Häftad, 2019
1032 kr
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Inspired by pragmatism, this book addresses religious plurality with the aim of bringing forth how it may be approached constructively by Christian theology. Accordingly, not doctrine, but practices are focussed in its analyses of interreligious topics. Henriksen argues that engagement with the …
Critical Perspectives on Interreligious Education
Experiments in Empathy
Häftad, 2020
1032 kr
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The editors of Experiments in Empathy: Critical Reflections on Interreligious Education have assembled a volume that spans multiple religious traditions and offers innovative methods for teaching and designing interreligious learning. This groundbreaking text includes established interreligious …
Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation
A Comparative Theology of Divine Possessions
Häftad, 2020
999 kr
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In Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation, Joshua Samuel constructs an embodied comparative theology of liberation by comparing divine possessions among Hindu and Christian Dalits in South India. Critiquing the problems inherent in prioritizing texts when studying religious traditions, …
European Encounter with Hinduism in India
Häftad, 2020
895 kr
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In The European Encounter with Hinduism Jan Peter Schouten offers an account of European travellers coming into contact with the Hindu religion in India. From the thirteenth century on, both traders and missionaries visited India and encountered the exotic world of Hindus and Hinduism. Their travel …
Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age
Charles Taylor and Zen Buddhism in the West
Häftad, 2020
1010 kr
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In Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age André van der Braak offers an account of the exciting but also problematic encounter between enchanted Japanese Zen Buddhism and secular Western modernity over the past century, using Charles Taylor’s magnum opus A Secular Age as an interpretative lens.As the …
Theologising with the Sacred ‘Prostitutes’ of South India
Towards an Indecent Dalit Theology
Häftad, 2021
875 kr
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In Theologising with the Sacred ‘Prostitutes’ of South India, Eve Rebecca Parker theologises with the Dalit women who from childhood have been dedicated to village goddesses and used as ‘sacred’ sex workers. Parker uses ethnographic, anthropological, theological, hermeneutical and historical …
Comparative History of Catholic and Aš‘arī Theologies of Truth and Salvation
Inclusive Minorities, Exclusive Majorities
Häftad, 2021
875 kr
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In A Comparative History of Catholic and Aš‘arī Theologies of Truth and Salvation Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour analytically and critically compares the historical development of the Catholic theologies of truth and salvation with those of its Islamic counterpart, Ašʿarism. The monograph moves the …
Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints
The Community of God’s Friends
Häftad, 2022
993 kr
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In A Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology of Saints: The Community of God’s Friends, Hans A. Harmakaputra focuses on a question that emerges from today’s multi-faith context: “Is it possible for Christians to recognize non-Christians as saints?” To answer affirmatively, he offers a Christian …
Witnessing God
Christians, Muslims, and the Comparative Theology of Missions
Häftad, 2024
967 kr
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This book is a comparative theological investigation into the following question: how does one theologically understand the sincere-truth-seeking religious other who rejects one’s truth claims not out of animosity or ignorance, but rather from a desire to worship God in spirit and in truth? …
Social Cohesion, Peacebuilding, Human Rights, and Dialogue
Global Interreligious Perspectives
Häftad, 2025
1042 kr
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Increasingly, discussions of religious difference and diversity are moving from the theological and theoretical towards the practical and contextual. This volume explores, through global cases and discussions, questions around social cohesion, peacebuilding, human rights, and dialogue across a …
Sacred Protest
Religion, Power and Resistance in an Era of Upheaval
Häftad, 2026
880 kr
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Analysis of the complex interrelations of religion and modern protest movements draws attention to the ways that pervasive societal anxieties are taken up in religious, interreligious and transreligious discourses. The last years have seen forms of major social upheaval in the form of protests the …
Is the Quest for Meaning the Quest for God?
The Religious Ascription of Meaning in Relation to the Secular Ascription of Meaning: A Theological Study
Häftad, 1996
1136 kr
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Traditionally, religion was the supplier of meaning. It is often said that the quest for meaning is at bottom a quest for God, a quest that can only find an adequate answer in religion. But then what is the alternative for those who reject religion? Emptiness and meaninglessness, as Nietzsche …
Limping but Blessed
Jürgen Moltmann’s Search for a Liberating Anthropology
Häftad, 2004
1957 kr
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For Jürgen Moltmann, theological anthropology must be liberating. It should take a stand against dehumanizing images and concepts of human life and point out ways to “true humanity.” In his view, a theologian can develop such a liberating anthropology only if he speaks explicitly from the …
Charting Churches in a Changing Europe
Charta Oecumenica and the Process of Ecumenical Encounter
Häftad, 2006
1957 kr
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The countries of Europe are seeking to redefine themselves, both individually and in relation to each other. This volume examines the role of the Christian churches at various levels of that process. The Charta Oecumenica, a ground-breaking document from the Conference of Churches in Europe and the …
Naming and Thinking God in Europe Today
Theology in Global Dialogue
Inbunden, 2007
3498 kr
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Is there a new need and place for God-talk in Europe? The present volume both confirms this and opens up new questions for discussion. It shows how different traditions of naming and thinking God in Europe draw on various theoretical and philosophical foundations that are in competition with one …
Jesus as Guru
The Image of Christ among Hindus and Christians in India
Inbunden, 2008
2479 kr
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People in India form images of Jesus Christ that link up with their own culture. Hindus have given Jesus a place among the teachers and gods of their own religion, seeing in his life something of the wisdom and mysticism that is so central to Hinduism. Christians in India also make use of the …
Roots and Routes
Identity Construction and the Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue
Häftad, 2010
1397 kr
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Dialogue participants demonstrate strong motivations for contributing to interreligious dialogue, based on a firm belief that encountering the other generates understanding – the contact thesis. Interreligious dialogue meets with both suspicion and cynicism: the former because it may result in loss …
Crossroad Discourses between Christianity and Culture
Inbunden, 2010
3613 kr
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Christianity exists in relation to and interacts with its cultural environment in a number of ways. In this volume authors from a wide variety of backgrounds explore various facets of the relationship and interaction of Christianity with its cultural environment: politics, society, esthetics, …
Crossroad Discourses between Christianity and Culture
Häftad, 2010
1367 kr
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Christianity exists in relation to and interacts with its cultural environment in a number of ways. In this volume authors from a wide variety of backgrounds explore various facets of the relationship and interaction of Christianity with its cultural environment: politics, society, esthetics, …
Fragile Identities
Towards a Theology of Interreligious Hospitality
Häftad, 2011
1353 kr
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Interreligious dialogue is one of the major challenges confronting contemporary theology. In particular, the so-called “dialogical tension” between openness and identity has been a central issue: Can one maintain one’s religious identity without closing oneself off from the other? In general, …
Interreligious Hermeneutics in Pluralistic Europe
Between Texts and People
Inbunden, 2011
3495 kr
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At the second major conference held in Salzburg in 2009 of The European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS), participants probed the broad theme of ‘interreligious hermeneutics in a pluralistic Europe’. Due to the phenomenon of an increasingly plural Europe, …
