This book investigates interreligious hospitality from five different religious perspectives: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. "Hosting the Stranger" features ten powerful meditations on the theme of interreligious hospitality by eminent scholars and practitioners from the five different wisdom traditions: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. By gathering thinkers from different religious traditions around the same timely topic of what it means to "host the stranger," this text enacts the hospitality it investigates, facilitating a hopeful and constructive dialogue between the world's major religions. The first part of the volume offers five different hermeneutic readings that each wrestle with what interreligious hospitality means and what it demands. The second part is divided equally between the five different religious perspectives on hosting the stranger, with two thinkers representing each religion. Together these essays remind us of the urgent need for interreligious hospitality, and more importantly, they testify to its ongoing possibility.
| ISBN | 1441158081 | | Pages | 176 | | ISBN13 | 9781441158086
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 318 | | Publisher | Continuum Publishing Corporation | | Published in | New York | | Imprint | Continuum Publishing Corporation | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Publication date | 14 Apr 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 13 | | DEWEY | 201.5 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: HOSTING THE STRANGER; Between Hospitality and Hostility, by Richard Kearney (Boston College); Translating Hospitality: Paul Ricoeur's Ethics of Translation, by James Taylor (Boston College); Abraham's Strangers: A Hermeneutic Wager, by Marianne Moyaert (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven); Hosts and Guests: East-West Dialogue, by Joseph O'Leary (University Sophia, Tokyo); Impossible Hospitality: A Deconstructive Dilemma, by Chris Yates (Boston College); PART TWO: INTERRELIGIOUS HOSPITALITY; I. Jewish Perspectives; The Open Tent: Angels and Strangers, by Edward Kaplan (Brandeis University); Widows, Orphans, Strangers, by Jacob Meskin (Northeastern University); II. Christian Perspectives; Interreligious Hospitality and its Limits, by Catherine Cornille (Boston College); Welcoming the Stranger, by Patrick Hederman (Abbot, Glenstal Abbey); III. Buddhist Perspectives; The Awakening of Hospitality, by John Makransky (Boston College); Buddhism and Hospitality: Expecting the Unexpected and Acting Virtuously, by Andy Rotman (Smith College); IV. Hindu Perspectives; Hindu Hostings, by Francis Clooney (Harvard University); The Hospitality of Worship, by Swami Tyagananda (Harvard University); V. Islamic Perspectives; The Dead and the City: The Limits of Hospitality in the Early Modern Levant, by Dana Sadji (Boston College); This House is Your House: The Islamic Virtue of Hospitality, by Joseph Lumbard (Brandeis University).
"Hosting the Stranger is an exciting contribution to a new generation of inter-religious dialogue and scholarship harmonizing an explicit hopefulness for hospitality within and between religions with an insistent respect for differing understandings of what constitutes hospitality. The book presses the urgency of the need for inter-religious hospitality without ignoring the risk entailed in 'welcoming the stranger'. It is a wonderfully balanced collection of essays bringing together theoretical and methodological investigations with a number of concrete discussions of the sources, understandings, and examples of hospitality in five different religious traditions.Accessible, yet historically attuned and theoretically nuanced, this collection of essays on hospitality in religion is an indispensable resource for students of religious studies as well as religious practitioners engaged in inter-religious dialogue." Tamsin Jones, Lecturer on Religion, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harva
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