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Informationen zum Autor Mona Siddiqui is Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the University of Edinburgh. In 2011 she was awarded an OBE for services to interfaith relations. She is the author of many celebrated titles in religion, including – most recently – Christians, Muslims and Jesus (Yale University Press, 2013), My Way (IB Tauris, 2014) and Human Struggle (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Nathanael Vette is Issachar Postdoctoral Fellow in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His first book, Writing with Scripture: Scripturalized Narrative in the Gospel of Mark, will be published by T&T Clark in 2022 in the Library of New Testament Studies series. Klappentext "How, from a theological standpoint, should we make sense of gratitude? This rich interdisciplinary volume is the first concertedly to explore theologies of gratitude from both Christian and Muslim perspectives. While the available literature has tended to rhapsodize gratitude to God and others as both a virtue and an obligation, this book by contrast offers something new by detailing ways in which gratitude is complicated by inequality: even to the point of becoming a vice. Gratitude now emerges as something more than a virtue and other than merely transactional. It can be a burden, bringing about indebtedness and an imbalance of power; but it may also be a resonant source of reconciliation and belonging. Topics discussed cover the personal and political dimensions of gratitude, including such issues as justice, multiculturalism, racism, imperialism, grief, memory and hope. The book assembles, from different traditions, some of the leading theologians of our times"-- Zusammenfassung How, from a theological standpoint, should we make sense of gratitude? This rich interdisciplinary volume assembles some of the foremost contemporary theologians. It is the first concertedly to explore theologies of gratitude from both Christian and Muslim perspectives. Gratitude now emerges as a potent source of reconciliation, hope and belonging. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Gratitude and God; 1. Joyful recognition: debt, duty, and gratitude to God Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz; 2. Islam and the Praxis of gratitude: Shukr from divine orientations to the structures of the social Martin Nguyen; 3. Gratitude in creation and in grace: One Protestant approach to the question of whether gratitude is a burden or a hope Tom Greggs; 4. When does a virtue become a vice? Gratitude as panacea and poison in Sufi ethics Atif Khalil; Part II. Gratitude and Humanity; 5. Gratitude: a virtue as vast as life itself? Robert Emmons; 6. Saying thank you in the checkout line, or, taking Thomas to Starbucks, or, gratitude in a money economy Peter J. Leithart; 7. The privilege of gratitude? Linn Marie Tonstad; 8. Gratitude, finitude, and divine providence: living thankfully in Schleiermacher and al-Ghazali Joshua Ralston; Part III. Gratitude and Society: 9. From resentment to gratitude: an essay on multiculturalism Mona Siddiqui; 10. Being black in Britain: a space for gratitude? Anthony Reddie; 11. 'Ungrateful Jews': the Roman empire and early Christian anti-Semitism Nathanael Vette; 12. Paying tribute: Cornel West's prophetic gratitude as social movement building and self-transcendence Joshua Forstenzer....
