Interfaith relations

A Hopeful Calvinist's Quest for Common GroundRichard Mouw, one of the most influential evangelical voices in America, has been on a lifelong "quest for commonness"--engaging with others in a positive manner and advocating for a "convicted civility" when conversing with those with whom we disagree.

Yakshini – mystische Göttinnen und Hüterinnen der Natur, deren Kraft und Symbolik über Jahrtausende hinweg die spirituelle und kulturelle Landschaft Indiens geprägt haben.

This challenging and provocative book reimagines the justification, substance, process, and study of education in open, pluralistic, liberal democratic societies.

When the Ottoman Empire fell apart, colonial powers drew straight lines on the map to create a new region the Middle East made up of new countries filled with multiple religious sects and ethnicities.

Moral injury is a profound violation of a human being's core moral identity through experiences of violence or trauma.

During the nineteenth century, white Americans sought the cultural transformation and physical displacement of Native people.

This book develops a new theory of the conditions under which in-group pride can facilitate out-group tolerance.

From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest.

This text offers an approach to understanding religious interaction in the fourth century AD.

Langton explores a wide variety of Jewish attitudes towards the Apostle Paul in the context of modern Jewish thought.

Wendy Doniger's foundational study is both modern in its engagement with a diverse range of religions and refreshingly classic in its transhistorical, cross-cultural approach.

Polarized debates about 'Islam' and 'the West' are now so ubiquitous that it is easy to forget how damaging they can be.

The contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically produced or, put another way, as a doctrine that is embedded within a range of political, civic, and cultural institutions.

During the nineteenth century, white Americans sought the cultural transformation and physical displacement of Native people.

Despite predictions of continuing secularisation, the twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of religious extremism and violence in the name of God.

Pastor of a bilingual, multicultural church for more than a decade, Gary Commins knows that "e;diversity"e; is a spiritual exercise that can be as charged with anxiety as it is laced with hope.

What does the term 'common good' means to thinkers of different, primarily - but not exclusively - Christian traditions.

Christians and Muslims together make up about 57% of the world's population today, and by the end of the century they will constitute about 66% of the world's population.

Engages with a range of questions on religious diversity and how far humans have come in their religious development.

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are considered kindred religions-holding ancestral heritages and monotheistic belief in common-but there are definitive distinctions between these "e;Abrahamic"e; peoples.

What do Christian Churches say Islam is?

This collection of seven essays offers wide-ranging and in-depth studies of locations sacred to Muslims, of the histories of these sites (real or imagined), and of the ways in which Muslims and members of other religions have interacted peaceably in sacred times and spaces.

Joseph Palmisano explores the interreligious significance of empathy for Jewish-Christian understanding.

The notion of Interreligious Studies signals a new academic perspective on the study of religion, characterized by a relational approach.

Often Christian interfaith engagement has been viewed through the lense of theology of religions where the primary questions are often about the salvific destiny of people of other faiths.

The call to contemplative Christianity is not an easy one.

This collection deals with challenges and opportunities faced by Muslims and the wider society in Europe following the Madrid train bombings of 2004 and the London Transport attacks of 2005.

In On Religious Diversity Robert McKim distinguishes and examines a number of possible responses to the knowledge of diverse religious traditions that is available to all of us today.

How to meaningfully engage with interfaith questions?

What could Roman Catholicism and Mormonism possibly have to learn from each other?

Muthuraj Swamy provides a fresh perspective on the world religions paradigm and 'interreligious dialogue'.

The renowned Christian preacher and New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching world religions to undergraduates in Baptist-saturated rural Georgia, revealing how God delights in confounding our expectations.

A fresh exploration of a redeeming, dynamic, and radically different way to hold one's religion Samir Selmanovic who grew up a in a culturally Muslim family in Croatia, converted to Christianity as a soldier in the then-Yugoslavian army, and went on to become a Christian pastor in Manhattan and in Southern California looks at how our ongoing and sometimes violent power struggles over who owns God and what God wants for the world and its peoples are not serving God, humanity, or our planet.

In this interfaith book Lucinda Mosher investigates different understandings of destiny, loss, death, and remembrance in America's many religions.

Gehört der Islam zu Europa?

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are considered kindred religions-holding ancestral heritages and monotheistic belief in common-but there are definitive distinctions between these "e;Abrahamic"e; peoples.

This Reader brings together nearly 80 extracts from major works by Christians and Muslims that reflect their reciprocal knowledge and attitudes.

What is the role of scripture in illuminating the lives of the faithful today?

Recent years have seen a meteoric rise in the power and importance of organized religion in many parts of the world.

Die Beziehungsgeschichte von Christen und Muslimen war im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit äußerst vielschichtig, woraus sich besondere Anforderungen für das historische Lernen ergeben.

This comprehensive volume brings together a distinguished editorial team, including some of the field s pioneers, to explore the aims, practice, and historical context of interfaith collaboration.

Religious faith is a powerful source of comfort and support for individuals and families facing dementia.

This book reflects on one of the most pressing challenges of our time: the current and historical relationships that exist between the faith-traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Recent studies have examined martyrdom as a means of constructing Christian identity, but until now none has focused on Stephen, the first Christian martyr.

Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "e;religion"e; continues to be central.