Tag: Interreligious

Free Download W. Jakob Wirén, "Hope and Otherness: Christian Eschatology and Interreligious Hospitality "
English | ISBN: 900435705X | 2017 | 328 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Hope and Otherness, Jakob Wirén analyses the place and role of the religious Other in contemporary eschatology. In connection with this theme, he examines and compares different levels of inclusion and exclusion in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish eschatologies. He argues that a distinction should be made in approaches to this issue between soteriological openness and eschatological openness. By going beyond Christian theology and also looking to Muslim and Jewish sources and by combining the question of the religious Other with eschatology, Wirén explores ways of articulating Christian eschatology in light of religious otherness, and provides a new and vital slant to the threefold paradigm of exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism that has been prevalent in the theology of religions.

Free Download Mohammed Abu-Nimer, "Evaluating Interreligious Peacebuilding and Dialogue: Methods and Frameworks "
English | ISBN: 3110618079 | 2021 | 200 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1494 KB + 1367 KB
In the emerging fields of religious and interreligious peacebuilding, the question of monitoring and evaluation is a challenging, yet necessary process. The need to develop comprehensive yet fitting evaluation models for religious and interreligious peacebuilding is not only important for donor interests, but also critical as a means of documenting and learning for peacebuilders themselves. Theories and best practices in monitoring and evaluation have become prevalent in many fields, yet the amount of literature on evaluating intercultural and, especially, religious and interreligious projects remains scant in comparison. This volume offers a unique contribution that not only looks at several of the challenges and implications faced by religious and interreligious peacebuilders but also provides concrete examples of new models and tools for monitoring and evaluating religious and interreligious peacebuilding projects. In doing so, this volume serves as a tool and point of reference for individuals and organizations developing and implementing interreligious dialogue and peacebuilding projects.

Free Download Maciej Ptaszynski, "Searching for Compromise?: Interreligious Dialogue, Agreements, and Toleration in 16th-18th Century Eastern Europe "
English | ISBN: 9004446400 | 2022 | 424 pages | PDF | 4 MB
How did toleration and interreligious agreements function in Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern Age? 14 scholars have the answer.

Free Download Jan Winkler, "Interreligious Encounters in Europe "
English | ISBN: 1032121823 | 2023 | 266 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book examines interreligious dialogue in Europe and how interreligious encounters are framed, expressed and practised. Throughout Europe religious identities have increasingly become significant categories within debates on migration, cohesion, diversity and belonging. By focusing on the spatialities, materialities and practices of interreligious dialogues and encounters, the volume sheds light on the heterogeneous domains where the visibility and inclusion of religious and cultural differences are currently negotiated and contested. The chapters draw on social science perspectives and include a range of empirical case studies from a variety of European settings. The contributions (a) shed light on the subjectivities, relations and modes of behaviour produced, negotiated and contested in and through locally embedded interreligious encounters and dialogue-oriented practices, (b) observe the power dynamics that shape those practices and encounters and © discuss their implications for the place(s) of religion in the public sphere. Overall the book contributes to a better understanding of how cultural, religious and political identities are reconfigured across Europe.

Free Download Interreligious Studies: A Relational Approach to Religious Activism and the Study of Religion By Oddbjørn Leirvik
2014 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1472524497 | PDF | 2 MB
The notion of Interreligious Studies signals a new academic perspective on the study of religion, characterized by a relational approach. Interreligious Studies defines the essential features of interreligious studies compared with alternative conceptions of religious studies and theology. The book discusses pressing and salient challenges in interreligious relations, including interreligious dialogue in practice and theory, interfaith dialogue and secularity, confrontational identity politics, faith-based diplomacy, the question of interfaith learning in school, and interreligious responses to extremism.Interreligious Studies is a cutting-edge study from one of the most important voices in Europe in the field, Oddbjørn Leirvik, and includes case study material from his native Norway including interreligious responses to the bomb attack in Norway on 22nd July 2011, as well as examples from a number of other national and global contextsExpanding discussions on interreligious dialogue and the relationship between religions in new and interesting ways, this book is a much-needed addition to the growing literature on interreligious studies.

Free Download Lucinda Mosher, "The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies"
English | ISBN: 1647121639 | 2022 | 564 pages | PDF | 10 MB
A comprehensive collection provides guidance and deep insight from a variety of experts in this emerging field