Religion in Dialogue with Late Modern Society - A Constructive Contribution to a Christian Spirituality- Informed by Buddhist-Christian Encounters

This book is a constructive contribution to a Christian spirituality for the late modern religiously plural society. Based on a description of contemporary religion, in which the author refers to modern sociologists (some general and some specifically involved with religion), this study outlines certain recent characteristics of our contemporary way of relating to religion, and formulates a spirituality for the late modern religiously plural society. It detects such spirituality arising within three dynamic fields: 'continuity and internal diversity', 'formal and informal structures' and 'vita activa and vita contemplativa'. Against this background the author presents and analyses a case study of Aloysius Pieris, a Christian theologian active in 'Buddhist' Sri Lanka, and of Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk active in 'Christian' France. Based on identified presuppositions and in dialogue with these two personalities the book proceeds towards a construction which contains some basic indicators of a Christian spirituality for the late modern religiously plural society. The concepts 'community', 'baptism' and 'grace and concern' are central to the construction.

List of contents

Contents: Religion - Dialogue - Late Modern - Modernity - Religion and Modernity - Society - Christian Spirituality - Spirituality - Buddhism - Christian - Buddhist-Christian - Constructive Theology - Aloysius Pieris - Thich Nhat Hanh.

About the author

The Author: Ann Aldén is presently involved in a research project at Lund University where she is tracing the concept of mission in a Swedish ecumenical context and reflects on its implications in a contemporary and multireligious milieu. This book is her Ph.D. thesis that she wrote at Lund University as well. Since 1991, Ann Aldén has been a minister in the Church of Sweden.

Product details

• Authors: Ann Aldén
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9783631551219
• ISBN: 978-3-631-55121-9
• No. of pages: 178
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 10 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 260 g
• Series: Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums / Etudes d'histoire interculturelle du christianisme / Studies in the Intercultural History o; Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums / Etudes d'histoire interculturelle du chri; Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums / Etudes d'histoire interculturelle du christianisme / Studies in the Intercultural History o; Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums / Etudes d'histoire interculturelle du chri; Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums / Etudes d'histoire interculturelle du christianisme / Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology