The faiths of others : a history of interreligious dialogue
Thomas Albert Howard
Bok · Engelsk · 2021
| Omfang | X, 359 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | "In recent decades, organizations committed to "interreligious" or "interfaith" dialogue and activity have proliferated in the West and across the globe. Why, how so, and what exactly do these terms even mean? These serve as the touchstone questions for this book, which represents the first major intellectual history of interreligious dialogue in the modern age. The book focuses on premodern harbingers of interreligious dialogue and several major turning points in the modern age before profiling instances of it in the contemporary world. Throughout, the author argues that while many have practiced and/or theorized about interreligious dialogue, few have attended carefully to its genesis and development, connecting its emergence with broader trends in modern history. The book shows that interreligious dialogue has often produced ironic consequences, dividing liberal boosters of it from more conservative detractors. Furthermore, interreligious dialogue has heavily relied on Western conceptions of "religion"-understood as an easily distinguished cultural variable and as a genus with subordinate "isms" (i.e., Hinduism), many of which were named for the first time only by Western scholars. Despite these limitations, interreligious dialogue, observed with a more critical, perspicacious grasp of its history, has the potential to promote irenicism, contribute to understanding contemporary pluralism, and promote a cosmopolitan social ethic. The depth and breadth of interfaith activity today has no precedent in human history. In world-historical terms, this represents a new and intriguing dimension of human religiosity"--
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| ISBN | 9780300249897
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