Contemporary Muslim-Christian Encounters: Developments, Diversity and Dialogues
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Contemporary Muslim-Christian Encounters: Developments, Diversity and Dialogues addresses the key issues in the present day global encounter between Christians and Muslims. Divided into two parts, the first examines theoretical issues and concerns which affect dialogue between the two traditions. The second part highlights case studies from around the world. Chapters come from established scholars including Reuven Firestone, Douglas Pratt and Clinton Bennett, emerging scholars, as well as practitioner perspectives.
Highlighting the diversity within the field of "Christian-Muslim" encounter, case studies cover examples from the US and globally, and include dialogue in the US post 9/11, Nigerian Muslims and Christians, and Christian responses to Islamophobia in the UK.
Covering unique areas and those not explored in detail elsewhere, Contemporary Muslim-Christian Encounters: Developments, Diversity and Dialogues will be of interest to advanced students, researchers, and interfaith professionals.
Contemporary and up-to-date coverage of the key theories and factors in Muslim-Christian relations, highlighting global case studies.
Inclusion of both academic and practitioner perspectives in Muslim-Christian dialogue
Up-to-date coverage by leading experts on recent developments
Provides a global perspective, with writers and discussions from or about the US, Europe, Africa and Australia.
Preface, Leonard Swidler (Temple University, USA)
Forward, Alan Race (University of Winchester, UK)
1. Dialogue before Dialogue, David Thomas (University of Birmingham, UK)
2. The Contemporary Context of Muslim-Christian Dialogue, Paul Hedges (University of Winchester, UK)
3. Can those Chosen by God Dialogue with Others?, Reuven Firestone (University of Southern California and Hebrew Union College, USA)
4. Interreligious Dialogue as Lay, Institutional, and Academic: Muslim Perspectives, Khaleel Mohammed (San Diego State University, USA)
5. Gender and Muslim-Christian Dialogue, Anne Hege Grung (University of Oslo, Norway)
6. Applying Sharia Principles of Religious Tolerance to the Protection of Children: Nigerian Religious Conflict and Reconciliation amongst Muslims and Christians, Yusuff J. Amuda (International Islamic University, Malaysia)
7. Peace-building Through Interfaith Dialogues: The DRC Model, Jean-Daniel Kabati (University of Kwazalu Natal, South Africa)
8. Initiative and Response: The Future of Muslim-Christian Dialogue, Douglas Pratt (University of Waikato, New Zealand, and University of Bern, Switzerland)
9. Christian Responses to Islamophobia, Ray Gaston (Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, UK)
10. Christian Muslim Relations in the USA: A Postmodern Analysis after 9/11, Clinton Bennett (State University of New York, USA)
11. 'Bringing Faith Back In': Muslim and Christian Approaches to Nuclear (Non-)Proliferation and Disarmament, Shirin Shafaie (School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK)
12. Vatican and World Council of Church Initiatives: Weaving Interreligious Threads on Ecumenical Looms, Clare Amos (World Council of Churches)
Bibliography
Index
A thorough and well-shaped publication which makes a significant contribution to the field … The editor has succeeded in bringing together a notable group of writers who have succeeded in demonstrating the breadth and complexity of contemporary Muslim-Christian encounter as well as raising a number of significant issues relating to interreligious dialogue in general.
[The book's] greatest strength is the bringing together of a diverse range of topics and issues under discussion in a variety of local, national and international contexts ... I would recommend the book to all those interested in inter-religious studies, and interfaith dialogue in particular, be they academics, students and/or practitioners.
A comprehensive contribution to the literature on Christian-Muslim relations and interfaith dialogue.
This is a timely and useful collection which combines historical, theoretical and empirical approaches to contemporary Muslim-Christian encounters – including the two religions' relation to "Shifting Thirds" such as Judaism, secularism and shared social challenges in differing contexts.
In this superb edited collection, Paul Hedges confirms again his characteristically open-hearted approach and integrity – both by his own substantial contribution and by the very choice of contributors. Along with the editor, the varied writers extend the range and deepen the quality of modern Christian-Muslim encounter.
This volume brings together very useful insights from, on the one hand, the history and theory and, on the other, the contemporary praxis of Christian-Muslim encounter, from a wide variety of geographical contexts, including Nigeria and the DRC, Germany and Norway, Tower Hamlets and Bradford, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and the situation in the USA from both Christian and Muslim perspectives. A wide range of themes is also discussed, including gender and nuclear non-proliferation, with input from Jewish and Muslim, as well as Christian, commentators, and overall the complexity and multi-dimensionality of Christian-Muslim Relations are very well illustrated.
Religious leaders, seasoned interreligious relations practitioners, and newcomers to dialogue all will find something useful …a thought-provoking collection of perspectives on the history, methodology, theology, and practice of Christian-Muslim dialogue in a variety of contexts.
- Title: Contemporary Muslim-Christian Encounters: Developments, Diversity and Dialogues
- Author: Paul Hedges
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781472588555, 9781350022539, 1350022535, 147258855X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781472588555
- Resource Type: Monograph
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