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Never Wholly Other - A Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism (Paperback)
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Never Wholly Other - A Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism (Paperback)
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How does the Qur'an depict the religious Other? Historically, this
question has provoked extensive debate among Islamic scholars about
the identity, nature, and status of such religious Others. Today,
this debate assumes great importance because of the widening
experience of religious plurality, which prompts inquiry into
convergences and divergences in belief and practice as well as
controversy over the appropriate forms of interaction among
different religions. The persistence of religious violence also
gives rise to difficult questions about the relationship between
the depiction of religious Others, and intolerance and oppression.
Scholars have traditionally accounted for the coexistence of
religious similarity and difference by resorting either to models
that depict religions as isolated entities or models that arrange
religions in a static, evaluative hierarchy. In response to the
limitations of this discourse, Jerusha Tanner Lamptey constructs an
alternative conceptual and hermeneutical approach that draws
insights from the work of Muslim women interpreters of the Qur'an,
feminist theology, and semantic analysis. She employs this approach
to reevaluate, reinterpret, and reenvision the Qur'anic discourse
on religious difference. Through a close reading of the Qur'anic
text, she distinguishes between two forms of religious difference:
hierarchical and lateral. She goes on to explore the complex
relationality that exists among Qur'anic concepts of hierarchical
religious difference and to articulate a new, integrated model of
religious pluralism. Using an interdisciplinary approach to
confront existing Islamic scholarship, Lamptey's Never Wholly Other
offers a new genre of theology.
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