New PDF release: Understanding Interreligious Relations

By David Cheetham,Douglas Pratt,David Thomas

ISBN-10: 0199645841

ISBN-13: 9780199645848

ISBN-10: 019964585X

ISBN-13: 9780199645855

The ways that non secular groups engage with each other is an expanding concentration of scholarly examine and instructing. problems with interreligious engagement, including discussion extra in particular and relatives extra ordinarily, allure common curiosity and main issue. In a religiously pluralist international, how various groups get in addition to one another is not only an educational query; it's very a lot a spotlight of socio-political and wider neighborhood recognition. The
study of religions and faith within the twenty first century international needs to inevitably take account of kinfolk inside and among religions, no matter if this is often approached from a theological, historic, political, or the other disciplinary aspect of view.

Understanding Interreligious kin is a reference paintings of relevance to scholars and students in addition to of curiosity to a much wider proficient public. It contains major elements. the 1st presents expositions and significant discussions of the ways that 'the different' has been construed and addressed from in the significant spiritual traditions. the second one offers analyses and discussions of key matters and subject matters during which interreligious relatives are an essential constituent.

The editors have assembled an authoritative and scholarly paintings that discusses views at the non secular 'other' and interreligious kinfolk which are commonplace of the main non secular traditions; including large unique chapters from a cross-section of rising and tested students on major debates and concerns within the wider box of interreligious relations.

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