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One and Holy
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Karl Adam; Translated by Cecily Hastings
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Communication is vital to the prosperity and survival of the
community, with the quality of communication amongst its members
directly improving or worsening the value of the community.
However, with the increase in immigration and relocation of
refugees, the need to accommodate diverse cultural groups becomes
imperative for the viability and survivability of a community while
posing challenges to communication. Intercultural and interfaith
dialogue can be used constructively to cultivate, manage, and
sustain diversity and wellbeing in particularly deeply divided
communities. Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogues for Global
Peacebuilding and Stability is a critical research publication that
explores the importance of conflict resolution strategies among
populations that include a varied amalgamation of cultural and
religious backgrounds. With the increasing emphasis on
intercultural understanding promoted by governments, civil
societies, and international mediators, this book offers relevant
remedies for major afflictions in the world today, such as
exclusion, marginalization, xenophobia, and racism. It is ideal for
government officials, policymakers, activists, diplomats, lawyers,
international trade and commerce agencies, religious institutions,
academicians, researchers, and students working in a variety of
disciplines including political science, international relations,
law, communication, sociology, and cultural studies.
This volume presents international perspectives on interreligious
dialogue, with a particular focus on how this can be found or
understood within biblical texts. The volume is in four parts
covering both the Old and New Testaments (and related Greco Roman
texts) as well as the history of reception and issues of
hermeneutics. Issues of the relationships between religious
cultures are assessed both in antiquity and modernity In Part 1
(Old Testament) contributions range from the discussion of the
bible and plurality of theologies in church life (Erhard
Gerstenberger) to the challenge of multi-culturalism (Cornelis Van
Dam). Part 2 (New Testament and Greco-Roman Texts) considers such
things as Pagan, Jewish and Christian historiography (Armin Baum)
and the different beliefs it is possible to discern in the Ephesian
community (Tor Vegge). Part 3 provides issues from the history of
reception - including the role of Jesus in Islam (Craig A. Evans).
The volume is completed by a hermeneutical reflection by Joze
Krasovec, which draws the threads of dialogue together and
questions how we can best examine the bible in a modern,
international, multicultural society.
Uri Ehrlich addresses a relatively neglected but central component
of the act of prayer: its nonverbal aspects, represented by such
features as the worshiper's gestures, attire and shoes, and vocal
expression. In the first part of this book, the author engages in a
two-tiered examination of nine nonverbal elements integral to the
rabbinic Amidah prayer: a detailed historical-geographical
consideration of their development, followed by an analysis of each
gesture's signification, the crux of this study. Of all the
possible models, it was the realm of interpersonal communication
which had the strongest impact on this consideration of the
rabbinic Amidah gesture system. The concluding chapters explore the
broader rabbinic conception of prayer embodied in these nonverbal
modes of expression. Unlike mainstream prayer studies, which
concentrate on the textual and spoken facets of prayer, the
holistic approach taken here views prayer as a complex of verbal,
physical, spiritual and other attributes.
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