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Refuge in Crestone - A Sanctuary for Interreligious Dialogue (Hardcover)
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Refuge in Crestone - A Sanctuary for Interreligious Dialogue (Hardcover)
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As globalization proceeds at an ever increasing and more
unrelenting pace, relations among the world's religions are taking
on both a new visibility and a new urgency. Christian theologians
and others intent on innovative formulations in the theology of
religions are making interreligious dialogue with non-Christians a
priority. One way to promote creative scholarship in this quest is
to tap into interdisciplinary resources, and the author of this
volume is uniquely qualified to do so since he holds graduate
degrees in both theology and cultural anthropology. Aaron Thomas
Raverty's Refuge in Crestone: A Sanctuary for Interreligious
Dialogue elucidates how the praxis of interreligious dialogue, as
outlined in key Vatican documents in the Catholic Church, could be
better served by attending to the qualitative ethnographic methods
of sociocultural anthropology. Because the material, behavioral,
and cognitive aspects of dialogue-as revealed in daily life, common
social and political action, religious experience, and theological
exchange-are embedded in culture, they are amenable to ethnographic
analysis. Using the unique, multi-religious Colorado site of
Crestone and its environs as a fieldwork "laboratory" and
self-described "Refuge for World Truths," the ethnographic data
gleaned from this project exemplify the creative interdisciplinary
contributions of anthropology to theologizing. It seeks to
demonstrate, using an empirical, multi-religious community as its
focus, how anthropology can support interreligious dialogue. The
results of such dialogue could not only assist the scholarly
community by helping theologians arrive at new formulations in the
burgeoning area of the theology of religions, but might also serve
the more practical goal of promoting peace-as an alternative to
violence-in today's complex and sorely troubled world.
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