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Is the world created by a divine creator? Or is it the constant
product of karmic forces? The issue of creation was at the heart of
the classic controversies between Buddhism and Hindu Theism. In
modern times it can be found at the centre of many polemical
debates between Buddhism and Christianity. Is this the principal
barrier that separates Buddhism from Christianity and other
theistic religions? The contributions to Part One explore the
various aspects of traditional and contemporary Buddhist objections
against the idea of a divine creator as well as Christian
possibilities to meet the Buddhist critique. Part Two asks for the
potential truth on both sides and suggests a surprising way that
the barrier might be overcome. This opens a new round of
philosophical and theological dialogue between these two major
traditions with challenging insights for both. Contributors: Jose
I. CabezA(3)n, John P. Keenan, Armin Kreiner, Aasulv Lande, John
D'Arcy May, Eva K. Neumaier, Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Ernst
Steinkellner.
Is the world created by a divine creator? Or is it the constant
product of karmic forces? The issue of creation was at the heart of
the classic controversies between Buddhism and Hindu Theism. In
modern times it can be found at the centre of many polemical
debates between Buddhism and Christianity. Is this the principal
barrier that separates Buddhism from Christianity and other
theistic religions? The contributions to Part One explore the
various aspects of traditional and contemporary Buddhist objections
against the idea of a divine creator as well as Christian
possibilities to meet the Buddhist critique. Part Two asks for the
potential truth on both sides and suggests a surprising way that
the barrier might be overcome. This opens a new round of
philosophical and theological dialogue between these two major
traditions with challenging insights for both. Contributors: Jose
I. CabezA(3)n, John P. Keenan, Armin Kreiner, Aasulv Lande, John
D'Arcy May, Eva K. Neumaier, Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Ernst
Steinkellner.
One of the most comprehensive volumes on Myanmar’s identity
politics to date, this book discusses the entanglement of ethnic
and religious identities in Myanmar and the challenges presented by
its extensive ethnic-religious diversity. Religious and ethnic
conjunctions are treated from historical, political, religious and
ethnic minority perspectives through both case studies and overview
chapters. The book addresses the thorny issue of Buddhist
supremacy, Burmese nationalism and ethnic-religious hierarchy,
along with reflections on Buddhist, Christian and Muslim
communities. Bringing together international scholars and Burmese
scholars, this book combines the perspectives of academic observers
with those of political activists and religious leaders from
different faiths. Through the breadth of its disciplinary approach,
its focus on identity issues and its inclusion of insider and
outsider perspectives, this book provides new insights into the
complex religious situation of Myanmar.
One of the most comprehensive volumes on Myanmar’s identity
politics to date, this book discusses the entanglement of ethnic
and religious identities in Myanmar and the challenges presented by
its extensive ethnic-religious diversity. Religious and ethnic
conjunctions are treated from historical, political, religious and
ethnic minority perspectives through both case studies and overview
chapters. The book addresses the thorny issue of Buddhist
supremacy, Burmese nationalism and ethnic-religious hierarchy,
along with reflections on Buddhist, Christian and Muslim
communities. Bringing together international scholars and Burmese
scholars, this book combines the perspectives of academic observers
with those of political activists and religious leaders from
different faiths. Through the breadth of its disciplinary approach,
its focus on identity issues and its inclusion of insider and
outsider perspectives, this book provides new insights into the
complex religious situation of Myanmar.
Can religions be compared? For decades the discipline of religious
studies was based on the assumption that they can. Postmodern and
postcolonial reflections, however, raised significant doubts. In
social and cultural studies the investigation of the particular
often took precedence over a comparative perspective.
Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology
questions whether religious studies can survive if it ceases to be
comparative religion. Can it do justice to a globalized world if it
is limited on the specific and turns a blind eye on the general?
While comparative approaches have come under strong pressure in
religious studies, they have started flourishing in Theology.
Comparative theology practices interfaith dialogue by means of
comparative research. This volume asks whether theology and
religious studies are able to mutually benefit from their critical
and constructive reflections. Can postcolonial criticism of
neutrality and objectivity in religious studies create new links
with the decidedly perspectival approach of comparative theology?
In this collection scholars from theology and religious studies
discuss the methodology of interreligious comparison in the light
of recent doubts and current objections. Together with the
contributors, Perry Schmidt-Leukel and Andreas Nehring argue that
after decades of critique, interreligious comparison deserves to be
reconsidered, reconstructed and reintroduced.
Can religions be compared? For decades the discipline of religious
studies was based on the assumption that they can. Postmodern and
postcolonial reflections, however, raised significant doubts. In
social and cultural studies the investigation of the particular
often took precedence over a comparative perspective.
Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology
questions whether religious studies can survive if it ceases to be
comparative religion. Can it do justice to a globalized world if it
is limited on the specific and turns a blind eye on the general?
While comparative approaches have come under strong pressure in
religious studies, they have started flourishing in Theology.
Comparative theology practices interfaith dialogue by means of
comparative research. This volume asks whether theology and
religious studies are able to mutually benefit from their critical
and constructive reflections. Can postcolonial criticism of
neutrality and objectivity in religious studies create new links
with the decidedly perspectival approach of comparative theology?
In this collection scholars from theology and religious studies
discuss the methodology of interreligious comparison in the light
of recent doubts and current objections. Together with the
contributors, Perry Schmidt-Leukel and Andreas Nehring argue that
after decades of critique, interreligious comparison deserves to be
reconsidered, reconstructed and reintroduced.
A growing number of people experience their own spiritual lives as
being inspired by more than one religious tradition.
Multi-religious identity formation and double-belonging are obvious
signs of a process of significant transformation as a result
inter-faith encounter - a transformation that had been expected and
positively willed by various inter-faith theologians.
"Transformation by Integration" looks more deeply at a number of
issues involved, including: What does it mean theologically to move
beyond tolerance towards a genuine appreciation of other religions?
How can multi-religious identity be assessed theologically? And,
will we have to reconsider the widespread dismissal of syncretism?
Perry Schmidt-Leukel takes the next theological step on the basis
of a pluralist paradigm within the theology of religions.
Der Begriff Dialog ist in unserer Zeit in allen gesellschaftlichen
Bereichen zu einem dominanten Schlagwort geworden. Schuld daran ist
die Situation einer zunehmenden Pluralisierung und
Fragmentarisierung des Geistes- und Gesellschaftslebens, die
zunachst in einer Reihe von Verlusten erlebbar wird, namlich als
Verlust verbindlicher Einheit und eines absoluten
Erkenntnisfundaments, damit auch als Verlust von Sicherheit und
Orientierung. Die Dynamik der Moderne hat eine Situation entstehen
lassen, die eine Gleichzeitigkeit unterschiedlicher Lebensformen
und Wirklichkeitsverstandnisse hervorgebracht hat, was eine
Potenzierung der Konfrontationen mit Anders- oder Fremdheit mit
sich bringt. Im besonderen Masse betrifft dies die
geistig/gesellschaftliche Situation von Religion, denn gerade sie
wird durch die Konfrontation mit anderen Erfahrungsgebieten und
Traditionen zu einer Stellungnahme herausgefordert: das gilt vor
allem fur eine Konfrontation der Religionen miteinander sowie fur
die Konfrontation mit einer vorherrschenden naturwissenschaftlichen
Weltsicht. Religion in der heutigen Zeit einer globalisierten
Moderne ist daher "Religion im Dialog". Dabei zeigt sich die
Notwendigkeit, dass die Beschaftigung mit dem Thema selbst nur
dialogisch, d.h. interdisziplinar erfolgen kann. Der vorliegende
Sammelband vereint daher Beitrage, welche die spezifischen Probleme
und Moeglichkeit von Dialog im Bereich des Dialogs der Religionen
untereinander und des Dialogs Naturwissenschaft-Religion naher
beleuchten, mit dem Ziel, die Bausteine zu liefern zu einer
interdisziplinar ausgerichteten Bestimmung einer Theorie des
Dialogs.
Islam and Inter-Faith Relations is an insightful inquiry into the
relationship of Islam with the World's other religions. Both the
current religious diversity and the historical relationships with
the major religious traditions are examined here. In this succinct,
clarifying volume, five world-renowned Muslim theologians meet with
scholars of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism to engage
in a vivid dialogue. The Muslim realm once stretched from Spain to
China. Islam encountered and connected with a vast spectrum of
different cultures and today is obviously an incredibly significant
influence across the globe. What can Islam give to and what might
Islam receive from other great faiths? What are the major points of
conflict and how can these be resolved? Each chapter follows a
similar pattern of presenting an Islamic view, followed by the view
of another world religion. Then both contributors to each chapter
reflect on the shared values as well as the conflicting areas,
looking to possible resolutions for the future.
This series of lectures by eminent authors from Britain and Germany
is an excellent grounding in a wide range of World Religions and
their attitudes and approaches to war and peace. Suitable for all
undergraduates of Biblical Studies, Religious Studies and Theology,
this text would particularly suit second year students studying
World Religions or Ethics. Split into three manageable sections,
part one looks at war and peace in the Eastern Religions of
Hinduism, Buddhism and Classical Chinese Thought. Part two looks at
war and peace in the Abrahamic Religions, i.e. Judaism,
Christianity and Islam. The final forward looking part brings
themes and commonalities together in a discussion of various
developments towards peace, including a discussion of "The World
Conference on Religion and Peace" as well as Hans Kung's excellent
lecture on "Global Ethic - Development and Goals". With an
Introduction by Perry Schmidt-Leukel, this is a rigorous, yet
accessible text for anyone with an interest in the discussion of
religion and international conflict. Contents: 1. 'Part of the
Problem, Part of the Solution': An Introduction - Perry
Schmidt-Leukel Part I War and Peace in Eastern Religions 2. War and
Peace in Hinduism - Michael von Bruck 3. War and Peace in Buddhism
- Perry Schmidt-Leukel 4. War and Peace in Classical Chinese
Thought, with Particular Regard to Chinese Religion - Gregor Paul
Part II War and Peace in Abrahamic Religions 5. War and Peace in
Judaism - Dan Cohn-Sherbok 6. War and Peace in Christianity - Ian
Hazlett 7. War and Peace in Islam - Lloyd Ridgeon Part III
Inter-religious Foundations for Peace 8. Global Ethic: Development
and Goals Hans Kung 9. Peace and Multireligious Co-operation: The
World Conference of Religious for Peace (WCRP) Norbert Klaes. About
the editor Perry Schmidt-Leukel is Professor of Systematic Theology
and Religious Studies, holds the Chair of World Religions for Peace
and is Director of the Centre for Inter-Faith Studies at the
University of Glasgow.
'A major publishing event, not only in Buddhist studies but also
for those working in the area of interfaith encounter and theology
of religions.' Japanese Journal of Religious Studies In today's
globalized world, religious diversity has become one of the
strongest challenges to the self-understanding of any major
religious tradition, provoking two interdependent questions. How
does it see itself in the light of others? And, how does it see
others in the light of its own teachings? While the Abrahamic
religions are often accused of a predominantly intolerant and
exclusivistic attitude to the religious 'other', Eastern
religions-and Buddhism in particular-enjoy the reputation of being
naturally tolerant, absorbing, and even pluralistic towards
competing faiths. Some thinkers (from David Hume to Jan Assmann)
understood religious intolerance as an inevitable property of
monotheism, supposedly absent in the case of non-theistic or
polytheistic religions. More recent research, however, has
suggested that this impression, part of a whole cluster of Western
cliches, is false. Buddhism is-and has been-as much convinced of
its own superiority as any other faith, and has also been involved
in various inter-religious tensions and violent conflicts. The
ways, however, in which Buddhists have thought about the religious
'other', and practically dealt with it, display peculiar features,
which do indeed differ profoundly from what we find in the
Abrahamic faiths. Yet today, Buddhism must address the question
whether it can arrive at a genuine appreciation of religious
diversity, and recognize other religions as different but
nevertheless equally valid. This new four-volume collection from
Routledge's acclaimed Critical Concepts in Religious Studies series
enables users to make sense of this and other dizzying questions.
It brings together the best thinking on Buddhism's relationship
with other faiths and provides a one-stop collection of classic and
contemporary contributions to facilitate ready access to the most
influential and important scholarship. Fully indexed and with a
general and volume introductions, newly written by the editor,
which carefully locate the collected materials in their historical
and intellectual context, Buddhism and Religious Diversity is an
essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by
specialists and scholars working in related areas as a vital
research tool.
Interreligiose Theologie behandelt theologische Fragen nicht nur
auf der Basis der christlichen Tradition, sondern in Bezugnahme auf
andere religiose Traditionen. In diesem Programm bundeln sich
Entwicklungen, die sich in den letzten 50 Jahren in verschiedenen
Bereichen der Theologie ergeben haben, wie z. B.
Interkulturelle/Kontextuelle Theologie, Interreligioser Dialog,
Theologie der Religionen, Systematische Theologie im Horizont der
Religionen, Komparative Theologie, Interreligiose Feministische
Theologie. Die Religionswissenschaft ist dabei eine wichtige
Gesprachspartnerin. Die Beitragerinnen und Beitrager diskutieren
methodische und inhaltliche Fragen einer interreligios arbeitenden
Theologie, konkretisieren sie an exemplarischen Beispielen und
erschliessen sowohl Probleme als auch Chancen einer interreligios
ansetzenden Theologie. Mit Beitragen von Reinhold Bernhardt,
Michael von Bruck, Catherine Cornille, Ulrich Dehn, Wolfgang
Gantke, Michael Huttenhoff, Anja Middelbeck- Varwick, Marianne
Moyaert, Sigrid Rettenbacher, Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Werner Ustorf.
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