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This book explores the notion of interreligious friendship as a resource for advancing interfaith relations. Robust theories of interreligious friendship are developed for each of the six participating faith traditions, supported by representative case studies.

List of contents

Foreword, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Overview: Introducing Interreligious Friendship: Types of Friendship, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Summary of Essays on Interreligious Friendship, Stephen Butler Murray
Introduction: Friendship Across Religions-Project Overview and Synthesis, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Chapter 1: Understanding Jewish Friendship, Extending Friendship beyond Judaism, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Chapter 2: Very Two as Very One: A Response to Understanding Jewish Friendship, Meir Sendor
Chapter 3: A Christian Perspective on Interreligious Friendship, Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Chapter 4: The Sacramentality of Inter-religious Friendship, Johann M. Vento
Chapter 5: Toward a Muslim Theology of Interreligious Friendship, Timothy J. Gianotti
Chapter 6: "Love Speaking to Love": Friendship Across Religious Traditions, Anantanand Rambachan
Chapter 7: Interreligious Friendship: Insights from the Sikh Tradition, Eleanor Nesbitt
Chapter 8: Sikh Perspective on Friendship: Inside View, Balwant Singh Dhillon
Conclusion: Friendship Across Religions: An Interreligious Manifesto, Alon Goshen-Gottstein

About the author

Edited by Alon Goshen-Gottstein - Contributions by Balwant Singh Dhillon; Timothy Gianotti; Alon Goshen-Gottstein; Maria Reis Habito; Ruben Habito; Ryan McAnnally-Linz; Eleanor Nesbitt; Anantanand Rambachan; Meir Sendor; Johann M. Vento and Miroslav Volf

Summary

This book explores the notion of interreligious friendship as a resource for advancing interfaith relations. Robust theories of interreligious friendship are developed for each of the six participating faith traditions, supported by representative case studies.

Product details

• Authors: Goshen-Gottstein
• Assisted by: Alon Goshen-Gottstein (Editor), Goshen-Gottstein Alon (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2015
• EAN: 9781498526357
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2635-7
• Series: Interreligious Reflections; Interreligious Reflections
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Family & relationships, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Social groups: religious groups and communities