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Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions Professor Richard Kearney (Boston College, USA)

Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions By Professor Richard Kearney (Boston College, USA)

Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions by Professor Richard Kearney (Boston College, USA)

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Investigates interreligious hospitality from five different religious perspectives: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. This volume offers five different hermeneutic readings that each wrestle with what interreligious hospitality means and what it demands. It remind us of the urgent need for interreligious hospitality.

Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions Summary

Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions by Professor Richard Kearney (Boston College, USA)

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.

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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, Harvard University, USA
This is an important, open-hearted and useful collection of essays on the subject of hospitality, which often takes language as the first sign of its difficulty. The ghosts of Ricoeur and Derrida haunt the first half of the volume, and then it opens into Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Islamic and Hindu perspectives on the subject of welcome in which God is the long-awaited guest. Almost any one of these essays could be read by students in a number of disciplines; the volume opens doors to discussions about translation and uprootedness, liturgies and history. They are written with great clarity and ease by people who know their subject and want to share it. It is, as its title suggests, a cheering book. -- Fanny Howe, Chair, Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, Georgetown University
this volume of high quality and accessible papers probes hospitality as a task toward the stranger, alien, and victim through Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist wisdom traditions (Part 2) under the hermeneutical influence of Levinas and Derrida (Part 1)... [It] will invigorate student learning in university classrooms across an array of theological subdisciplines for all intent on responding constructively to the scandals of alienation, violence, and their religious legitimation. * Religious Studies Review *

About Professor Richard Kearney (Boston College, USA)

James Taylor is a teaching fellow in the Philosophy Department at Boston College, USA. His main areas of expertise are Ricoeur, Foucault, Heidegger and Gadamer. Richard Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and has served as a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin, the University of Paris (Sorbonne) and the University of Nice. He is the author of over 20 books on European philosophy and literature and has edited or co-edited 14 more. He was formerly a member of the Arts Council of Ireland, the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and chairman of the Irish School of Film at University College Dublin.

Table of Contents

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).

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NLS9781441158086
9781441158086
1441158081
Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions by Professor Richard Kearney (Boston College, USA)
Professor Richard Kearney (Boston College, USA)
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Continuum Publishing Corporation
2011-03-10
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