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Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Interreligious Resilience, Why It Matters, and How We Got Here -- Part 1 Building a Model of Interreligious Resilience -- 1 Interreligious History and Models: Addressing Religious Supremacy and Religious Pluralism -- 2 Interreligious Contexts: Globalization, Postsecularism, Acceleration, and Polarization -- 3 Interreligious Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities -- 4 Interreligious Resilience -- Part 2 Practical Application -- 5 The VITA Pathway of Interreligious Resilience -- 6 Case Studies: From Theory to Practice and From Practice to Theory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright.

"This pioneering handbook proposes an approach to pluralism that is relational, principled, and non-relativistic, going beyond banal calls for mere "tolerance". The growing religious diversity within societies around the world presents both challenges and opportunities. A degree of competition between deeply held religious/worldview perspectives is natural and inevitable, yet at the same time the world urgently needs engagement and partnership across lines of difference. None of the world's most pressing problems can be solved by any single actor, and as such it is not a question of if but when you partner with an individual or institution that does not think, act, or believe as you do. The authors argue that religious literacy - defined as a dynamic combination of competencies and skills, continuously refined through real-world cross-cultural engagement - is vital to building societies and states of neighborly solidarity and civic fairness. Through examination, reflection, and case studies across multiple faith traditions and professional fields, this handbook equips scholars and students, as well as policymakers and practitioners, to assess, analyze, and act collaboratively in a world of deep diversity"--

Chapter 1: The Historic Relation of Islamic and Western Law -- Chapter 2: Al-madhhab al-jarīrī: 'Revealed' Natural Law Theory, Social Contract, and Human Rights in the Islamic Golden Age -- Chapter 3: Natural Law Theory and Ghazali's Moral Epistemology: Reason, God, and Human Nature -- Chapter 4: Elitism, Democracy and Epistemic Equality: Aristotle and Ibn Rushd on the Role of Common Beliefs -- Epilogue: Critical Reflections in Retrospect and Prospect.

"It is a special night in Binyenei HaUma, the International Convention Center in western Jerusalem. There is great excitement in the air as multi-colored spotlights slice through the hall accompanied by a massive soundscape of catchy Evangelical praise music. On stage, the songs are performed by a highly professional 25- piece orchestra and choir, while the 6,000- strong Evangelical audience contributes to the atmosphere by singing the lyrics projected onto three huge television screens that flank the stage"--

Part I: Overcoming Gnosticism -- 1. I Hurt, Therefore I Am: Descartes with Blumenberg (and Job) -- 2. Legitimacy of Nihilism: Blumenberg's Post-Gnosticism -- 3. Blumenberg, Latour and the Apocalypse -- Part II: Political Theologies of Modernity -- 4. The Sovereignity of the World: Towards a Political Theology of Modernity (After Blumenberg) -- 5. Interrogating John Locke and the Propriety of Appropriation with Blumenberg and Voegelin -- 6. Political Legitimacy and Founding Myths -- Part III: Competing Visions of Modernity -- 7. Trial and Crisis: Blumenberg and Husserl on the Genesis and Meaning of Modern Science -- 8. Infinite Progress and the Burdens of Biography -- 9. The Ideal of Optics and the Opacity of Life: Blumenberg on Modernity and Myth -- Part IV: Modernity and Method -- 10. World-Modelling and Cartesian Method: Blumenberg's Hyperopia -- 11. Umbesetzung: Reoccupation in Blumenbergian Modernity -- 12. Modernising Blumenberg.

Confessing Tawhid and the Trinity : towards a Christian-Muslim theology of liberation / Hussam S. Timani -- The politics of paradigms : liberation and difference in Islam and Christianity / Shadaab Rahemtulla -- Human rights as "law of nations" in conversation with contemporary Christian and Islamic liberation theologies / Laura E. Alexander -- Fixing a God's mess : Jewish Tikkun Olam and interreligioxis action / James E. Bowley -- "Work is worship" Swami Vivekananda's philosophy of Seva and its contribution to the Gandhian ethos / Jeffery D. Long -- "Looking upon all beings as one's self" : insights from Advaita Hinduism for racial justice within Christian theology and liberative praxis / Marc A. Pugliese -- Envisioning a Dharmic society : retelling a traditional Buddhist tale / John M. Thompson -- Decolonizing and indigenizing liberation theology / Allen G. Jorgenson -- Mississippi's voices against extremism project : a case study in inclusive interfaith leadership / Hatice Gonul, Fatih Ozcan, Loye Sekihata Ashton.

Balanced Brain in the BibleSummary; Chapter 4: Church and Post-Ecotheology; Re-discovered Chinese Ecotheories; Vanity of Ecotheologies; Biblical Verses of Ecology and Post-Ecology; Church and Post-Ecotheology; Summary; Chapter 5: Capitalism and Post-Ecotheology; Vanity of Rightist and Leftist Ecological Solutions; Vanity of Sustainable Ecotheology; Capitalism and Post-Ecotheology; Summary; Chapter 6: Democracy and Post-Ecotheology; Vanity of Green/Red Authoritarianism; Vanity of Deliberative Democracy; Vanity of Global Ecological Institutions; Vanity of the Kingdom of God on Earth

Generations of festering culture wars, compounded by actual wars in predominantly Muslim countries, the terrorism of Isis, and the ongoing migrant crisis have all combined to make religious discrimination the most pressing challenge now facing many governments. For the leading common law nations, with their shared Christian cultural heritage balanced by a growing secularism, the threat presented by this toxic mix has the potential to destabilise civil society. This book suggests that the instances of religious discrimination, as currently legally defined, are constrained by that cultural context, exacerbated by a policy of multiculturalism, and in practice, conflated with racial, ethnic or other forms of discrimination. Kerry O'Halloran argues that many culture war issues - such as those that surround the pro-choice/pro-life debate and the rights of the LGBT community - can be viewed as rooted in the same Christian morality that underpins the law relating to religious discrimination

"This volume assembles twenty-three essays by Erich S. Gruen, who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. Twenty-two of the articles have previously been published, and one new one was composed for the volume."

This book addresses the eclipse of shame in Christian theology by showing how shame emerges in Christian texts and practice in ways that can be neither assimilated into a discourses of guilt nor dissociated from embodiment. Stephanie N. Arel argues that the traditional focus on guilt obscures shame by perpetuating the image of the lonely sinner in guilt. Drawing on recent studies in affect and attachment theories to frame the theological analysis, the text examines the theological anthropological writings of Augustine and Reinhold Niebuhr, the interpretation of empathy by Edith Stein, and moments of touch in Christian praxis. Bringing the affective dynamics of shame to the forefront enables theologians and religious leaders to identify where shame emerges in language and human behaviour. The text expands work in trauma theory, providing a multi-layered theological lens for engaging shame and accompanying suffering

Front cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword by Tomeu Estelrich -- Simone Weil Bibliography and Abbreviations Used -- English Translations of Simone Weil -- Introduction -- From the Translator -- 1. Timeline and Profile -- 2. Encountering the Poor -- 3. Christic Mysticism and the Exodus of Self -- 4. A Paradoxical Testimony -- Conclusion: A Witness for Difficult Times -- Appendix I: Letter to Georges Bernanos (1938) -- Appendix II: Love (III) -- Appendix III: Letter to Maurice Schumann -- Appendix IV: Come With Me (Prologue) -- Bibliography -- Back cover

Compiling scholarly essays from a unique three-year Democracy, Culture and Catholicism International Research Project, Democracy, Culture, Catholicism richly articulates the diverse and dynamic interplay of democracy, culture, and Catholicism in the contemporary world. The twenty-five essays from four extremely diverse cultures—those of Indonesia, Lithuania, Peru, and the United States—explore the relationship between democracy and Catholicism from several perspectives, including historical and cultural analysis, political theory and conflict resolution, social movements and Catholic social thought