Islam and Global Dialogue

Religious Pluralism and the Pursuit of Peace
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4094-0344-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

At a time when the world is becoming increasingly interdependent, multi-cultural and multi-religious, the concept of religious pluralism is under assault as a result of hatred, prejudice and misunderstanding from both religious exclusivists and dogmatic secularists. In this important and timely book, twenty internationally acclaimed scholars and leading religious thinkers respond to contemporary challenges in different ways. Some discuss the idea of a dialogue of civilisations; others explore the interfaith principles and ethical resources of their own spiritual traditions. All of them reject the notion that any single religion can claim a monopoly of wisdom; all are committed to the ideal of a just and peaceful society in which people of different religions and cultures can happily coexist. More space is here given to Islam than to Judaism and Christianity because, as a result of negative stereotypes, it is the most misunderstood of the major world religions. HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan contributes the Foreword.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boase, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I Defining the Issue; Chapter 1 Religious Pluralism and the Heritage of the Enlightenment, JohnBowden; Chapter 2 Is Our God Listening? Exclusivism, Inclusivism, and Pluralism, Diana L.Eck; Chapter 3 A Muslim’s Non-Reductive Religious Pluralism, MuhammadLegenhausen; Part II Islam and the West: Clash or Dialogue?; Chapter 4 Islam and the West, FrancisRobinson; Chapter 5 Of Saints and Sufis in the Near East, WilliamDalrymple; Chapter 6 Islam and the West, Akbar S.Ahmed; Chapter 7 The “Clash of Civilisations”?, FredHalliday; Chapter 8 The Dignity of Difference, JonathanSacks; Chapter 9 Conservative Ecumenism, Antony T.Sullivan; Chapter 10 From Clashing Civilisations to a Common Vision, RobertDickson Crane; Chapter 11 The Orphans of Modernity and the Clash of Civilisations, Khaled AbouEl Fadl; Part III Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Responses to Religious Diversity; Chapter 12 September 11, TonyBayfield; Chapter 13 Towards a Jewish Theology of Trilateral Dialogue, NormanSolomon; Chapter 14 Christians and People of Other Faiths, MarcusBraybrooke; Chapter 15 Mystery and Plural Faiths, Frank JulianGelli; Chapter 16 Religious Pluralism and Islam in a Polarised World, Murad WilfriedHofmann; Chapter 17 Ecumenical Islam, RogerBoase; Chapter 18 The Challenge of Pluralism and the Middle Way of Islam, JeremyHenzell-Thomas; Chapter 19 The Qur’an and Religious Pluralism, Mahmoud M.Ayoub; Part IV Postscript; Chapter 20 The Failure of War, WendellBerry;

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Boase is an Honorary Research Fellow at Queen Mary College, University of London, and was a Professor at the University of Fez. He has been involved in interfaith discussions for many years. His publications include The Origin and Meaning of Courtly Love (1977), The Troubadour Revival (1978), 'The Muslim Expulsion from Spain', History Today (April 2002), and, with Aisha Ahmad, Pashtun Tales from the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier (2003).