Religion and Culture in Dialogue
Religion and Culture in Dialogue

Author: Janis Talivaldis Ozolinš

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-12

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 3319257242

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This volume addresses the issue of the human encounter with the Mystery of God and the purpose of human life. It explores major themes from diverse cultural and philosophical traditions, starting with questions about the possibility of belief in God, His transcendence as seen in both East and West, and ending with questions about ethics and about personhood, human dignity and human rights. Taking an eclectic approach, the chapters in this book each uniquely address aspects of the human encounter with the Mystery of God, drawing from specific cultures and traditions, and using a particular philosophical and theological style. Together, the chapters provide a fresh approach and a synergy that ensures that each topic contributes something new to the dialogue between religion and culture.

Interreligious Dialogue and Cultural Change
Interreligious Dialogue and Cultural Change

Author: Catherine Cornille

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2012-08-17

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1621894231

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The challenges and changes that take place when religions move from one cultural context to another present unique opportunities for interreligious dialogue. In new cultural environments religions are not only propelled to enter into dialogue with the traditional or dominant religion of a particular culture; religions are also invited to enter into dialogue with one another about cultural changes. In this volume, scholars from different religious traditions discuss the various types of dialogue that have emerged from the process of acculturation. While the phenomenon of religious acculturation has generally focused on Western religions in non-Western contexts, this volume deals predominantly with the acculturation in the United States. It thus offers a fresh look at the phenomenon of acculturation while also lifting up an often implicit or ignored dimension of interreligious dialogue.

Christ and Culture in Dialogue
Christ and Culture in Dialogue

Author: Angus J. L. Menuge

Publisher: Concordia Publishing House

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780570042730

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Divided into three sections, this book illustrates how Christ and Christian faith affect worship, evangelism, and social issues.

Civilizational Dialogue and World Order
Civilizational Dialogue and World Order

Author: M. Michael

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-05-25

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0230621600

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The book comes at a very critical moment in the debate on civilization and responds to the lack of scholarly attention by international relations and political theorists as to how the discourse of dialogue of cultures, religions, and civilizations can contribute to the future of world order.

Debate and Dialogue
Debate and Dialogue

Author: Maijastina Kahlos

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1317154363

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This book explores the construction of Christian identity in fourth and fifth centuries through inventing, fabricating and sharpening binary oppositions. Such oppositions, for example Christians - pagans; truth - falsehood; the one true god - the multitude of demons; the right religion - superstition, served to create and reinforce the Christian self-identity. The author examines how the Christian argumentation against pagans was intertwined with self-perception and self-affirmation. Discussing the relations and interaction between pagan and Christian cultures, this book aims at widening historical understanding of the cultural conflicts and the otherness in world history, thus contributing to the ongoing discussion about the historical and conceptual basis of cultural tolerance and intolerance. This book offers a valuable contribution to contemporary scholarly debate about Late Antique religious history and the relationship between Christianity and other religions.

World Religions in Dialogue, Enhanced Edition
World Religions in Dialogue, Enhanced Edition

Author: Pim Valkenberg

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781599827995

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In our pluralistic world, it's not sufficient to simply learn about other religions: we must learn from them. World Religions in Dialogue: A Comparative Theological Approach, Enhanced Edition, provides an opportunity to do just that. Exploring the five major world religions--Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism--this text offers both insider and outsider perspectives on each religious tradition, creating a dialogical approach that combines scholarship with lived experience. Equipped with glossaries, research questions, and suggestions for experiential learning, World Religions in Dialogue invites students to study world religions--and investigate their own inherited traditions--in a way that reflects our pluralistic world. Pim Valkenberg is an ordinary professor of religion and culture in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

The Art of Dialogue
The Art of Dialogue

Author: Ineke de Feijter

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9783825800505

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Media and culture are deeply intertwined in contemporary society. Religions have problems relating to this media culture, which is shaped by media processes and conditioned by digital media and interactive forms of communication. Media set the agenda and they profoundly challenge religions, both with respect to their public communication, and their very existence and public relevance. People increasingly use media for shaping their religious identity and their search with respect to questions of ultimate meaning. Barely any theological studies exist that reflect on religious policies, and their subsequent praxis, in the field of communication. The author analyzes Christian policy views and identifies the main problems and opportunities in relating to media culture.

Interreligious Dialogue and Cultural Change
Interreligious Dialogue and Cultural Change

Author: Catherine Cornille

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2012-08-17

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1620322633

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The challenges and changes that take place when religions move from one cultural context to another present unique opportunities for interreligious dialogue. In new cultural environments religions are not only propelled to enter into dialogue with the traditional or dominant religion of a particular culture; religions are also invited to enter into dialogue with one another about cultural changes. In this volume, scholars from different religious traditions discuss the various types of dialogue that have emerged from the process of acculturation. While the phenomenon of religious acculturation has generally focused on Western religions in non-Western contexts, this volume deals predominantly with the acculturation in the United States. It thus offers a fresh look at the phenomenon of acculturation while also lifting up an often implicit or ignored dimension of interreligious dialogue.