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This book interrogates the theological statement of God loving diversity and justice from the multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary, and multi-gendered identities of the contributors. They engage selectively the various sources of their diverse traditions, including the Sikh scriptures, the Bible, the Qur'an, the movies, the Declaration of Human Rights, and the transgender movement. The result is a serious historical, literary, cultural, and religious discourse that fends against intellectually rigid thought and simplistic belief systems

One of the most striking mutations ocurring in our complex societies is one that affects the traditional relations between so-called 'secularism' and the religious confessions. During the last centuries in the West, these relations have been tense and conflictive. Currently, this relationship is taking on new forms that, moreover, extend to broader and more multifaceted scenarios. This work covers some of these changes, which manifest the enormous plurality of this long relationship. This book brings together a group of experts from Europe, USA and Australasia who, from their respective fields, whether historical, legal or sociological, have investigated the most controversial aspects of this complex reality. [Publisher's text]

Preliminary Material -- One Text–Different Meanings?: The Notification on Jacques Dupuis in the Light of the Second Vatican Council /Sigrid Rettenbacher -- Sifting the Qur'an: Two Forms of Interreligious Hermeneutics in Nicholas of Cusa /Pim Valkenberg -- An Exposition and Defence of Jayanta Bhatta's Inclusivism /David Slakter -- Scriptural Reasoning and Interfaith Hermeneutics /Nicholas Adams -- Scriptural Reasoning: A Feminist Response /Helene Egnell -- Scriptural Reasoning or Symbiosis: Can an Asian Paradigm Have a Message for Europe? /Elizabeth J. Harris -- Towards an Interreligious Hermeneutic of Scripture: Problems and Possibilities /Magdalen Lambkin -- Comparative Theology–As Theology /Francis X. Clooney -- Entitled to Understand: A Critical Look at Comparative Theology /Albertina Nugteren -- Comparative Theology in Search of a Hermeneutical Framework /Marianne Moyaert -- Confessional and Comparative Theology: Counterparts or Complements? /Hendrik Rungelrath -- Guanyin, Queer Theology, and Subversive Religiosity: An Experiment in Interreligious Theology /Paul Hedges -- What is Comparative Theology? /Ulrich Winkler -- European Islamic Gender Discourses /Anne Sofie Roald -- The Forbidden Fruit for the New Eve: The Christian Right's Adaptation to the (Post)Modern World /Susanne Scholz -- Interreligious Learning: The Shaping of Interreligious Identity in Pluralistic Europe /Martin Rötting -- Interreligious Hermeneutics and the Ethical Critique of the Scriptures? /Oddbjørn Leirvik -- Polemical Revival: Attacking the Other's Texts /John Chesworth -- On the Communication of Sacred Texts: Intercultural Comparison or Intercultural Encounter /Andreas Nehring -- Culture/s as a Theological Challenge: Towards a Systematic Approach to Intercultural Theology /Judith Gruber -- Double Commitment: or The Case for Religious Mestizaje (Creolization)? /Xavier Gravend-Tirole -- Index of Subjects -- Contributors.

A key feature of African American performance is the layering of performative voices and the constant shifting of performative focus. To capture this layering, Hinson demonstrates how all the parts of the gospel program work together to shape a single whole, joining speech and song, performer and audience, testimony, prayer, preaching, and singing into a seamless and multifaceted service of worship. Personal stories ground the discussion at every turn, while experiential testimony fuels the unfolding arguments. Fire in My Bones is an original exploration of experience and belief in a community of African American Christians, but it is also an exploration of African American aesthetics, the study of belief, and the ethnographic enterprise.--provided by publisher

This volume is concerned with how we ought to evaluate the individual and collective actions on which the existence, numbers and identities of future people depend - discussed here as the `problem of contingent future persons'. For it seems that those future persons who are brought into existence by such actions cannot benefit from or be harmed by them in any conventional sense. This is a relatively novel problem in ethics and as yet there is simply no consensus on how we ought to evaluate such actions or, indeed, on whether we can. However, the pursuit of a solution to the problem has been interestingly employed by moral philosophers to press the limits of ethics and to urge a reconsideration of the nature and source of value at its most fundamental level. Intended for professional ethicists, policy researchers, and graduate students, this volume explores the theological implications of the problem and advances the investigation of it both in philosophical and in theological terms