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Zusatztext this volume of high quality and accessible papers probes hospitality as a task toward the stranger, alien, and victim through Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist wisdom traditions (Part 2) under the hermeneutical influence of Levinas and Derrida (Part 1)... [It] will invigorate student learning in university classrooms across an array of theological subdisciplines for all intent on responding constructively to the scandals of alienation, violence, and their religious legitimation. Informationen zum Autor Richard Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and has served as a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin, the University of Paris (Sorbonne) and the University of Nice. He is the author of over 20 books on European philosophy and literature and has edited or co-edited 14 more. He was formerly a member of the Arts Council of Ireland, the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and chairman of the Irish School of Film at University College Dublin. As a public intellectual in Ireland, he was involved in drafting a number of proposals for a Northern Irish peace agreement (1983, 1993, 1995) and in speechwriting for the Irish President, Mary Robinson. He has presented five series on culture and philosophy for Irish and/or British television and broadcast extensively on the European media. His most recent work in philosophy comprises a trilogy entitled 'Philosophy at the Limit'. The three volumes are On Stories (Routledge, 2002), The God Who May Be (Indiana UP, 2001) and Strangers, Gods, and Monsters (Routledge, 2003). James Taylor is a teaching fellow in the Philosophy Department at Boston College, USA. His main areas of expertise are Ricoeur, Foucault, Heidegger and Gadamer. Klappentext Investigates interreligious hospitality from five different religious perspectives: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. Vorwort Investigates interreligious hospitality from five different religious perspectives: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. Zusammenfassung Investigates interreligious hospitality from five different religious perspectives: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. This volume offers five different hermeneutic readings that each wrestle with what interreligious hospitality means and what it demands. It remind us of the urgent need for interreligious hospitality. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION PART ONE: HOSTING THE STRANGERChapter 1: Hospitality in Translation: Hosting the Stranger as a Work of MourningJames Taylor Chapter 2: Western Hospitality to Eastern ThoughtJoseph O'Leary Chapter 3: Interreligious Hospitality and its Limits Catherine CornilleChapter 4: Departures: Hospitality as Mediation Kalpana SeshadriChapter 5: Misgivings About Misgivings and the Nature of a Home: Some Reflections on the Role of Jewish Tradition in Derrida's Account of Hospitality Jacob MeskinPART TWO: INTERRELIGIOUS HOSPITALITYI. Jewish PerspectivesChapter 6: The Open Tent: Angels and StrangersEdward KaplanChapter 7: Sukkot: Levinas and the Festival of the CabinsHugh Cummins II. Christian PerspectivesChapter 8: Hospitable by Calling, Inhospitable by NaturePatrick HedermanChapter 9: Biblical, Ethical and Hermeneutical Reflections On Narrative Hospitality Marianne MoyaertIII. Buddhist PerspectivesChapter 10: The Awakening of HospitalityJohn Makransky Chapter 11: Buddhism and Hospitality: Expecting the Unexpected and Acting Virtuously Andy RotmanIV. Islamic PerspectivesChapter 12: The Dead and the City: The Limits of Hospitality in the Early Modern Levant Dana SajdiChapter 13: Some Reflections on Hospitality in IslamJoseph LumbardV. Hindu PerspectivesChapter 14: Food, the Guest, and the Taittiriya Upanisad: Hospitality in the HinduTraditionsFrancis ClooneyChapter 15: God as Guest: Hospitality in ...
