Interfaith Engagement Beyond the Divide

Approaches, Experiences, and Practices
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-981-99-3861-2
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 682 g

This book features reflections by scholars and practitioners from diverse religious traditions. It posits that the global challenges facing humanity today can only be mastered if humans from diverse faith traditions can meaningfully collaborate in support of human rights, reconciliation, sustainability, justice, and peace. Seeking to redress common distortions of religious mis- and dis-information, the book aims to construct interreligious common ground ‘beyond the divide’.

Organised into three main sections, the book features sixteen conceptual, empirical, and practice-informed chapters that explore spirituality across faiths and cultures. Chapter 1 delineates the state of the art in relation to interfaith engagement, Chapters 2–8 advance theoretical research, Chapters 9–12 discuss empirical perspectives, and Chapters 13–16 showcase field projects and recount stories and lived experiences.

Comprising works by scholars, professionals, and practitioners from around the globe, Interfaith Engagement Beyond the Divide: Approaches, Experiences, and Practices is an interdisciplinary publication on interreligious thought and engagement:

• Assembles a curated collection of chapters from numerous countries and diverse religious traditions;
• Addresses interfaith scholarship and praxis from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives;
• Comprises interfaith dialogue and collaborative research involving authors of different faiths;
• Envisions prospects for peace, interreligious harmony in diversity, and a world that may be equitably and enduringly shared.

The appraisal of present and future challenges and opportunities, framed within a context of public policy and praxis, makes this interdisciplinary publication a useful tool for teaching, research, and policy development.

Chapter 16 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Luetz, Johannes M.

Duderija, Adis

Austin, Denise A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Religionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Hochschuldidaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Interfaith Engagement: The State of the Art.- Theology of Religions: An Inventory.- Ultimate Reality in Three Distinctive Traditions.- Complete, Idealized Human: An Experiment in Comparative Theology on the Nature of Jesus.- The ‘Son of God’ in the Gospel of John and its Relevance for Muslim-Christian Dialogue.- How can Human Beings Respond to Divine Warnings and Promises? Deciphering the Puzzle of Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom in Christianity and Islam.- Understanding Multicultural Dimensions in the History of Progressive Science in the Classical Period of Islam (610–1258 CE).- Beyond the Face: A Pentecostal’s Re-evaluation of Orthodox Iconography.- Australians’ Attitudes to Various Religions and Interfaith Activities.- Interfaith and Intra-faith Engagement of the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Diaspora in Australia.- Spiritual Formation in Muslim and Pentecostal Higher Education: A Comparative Case Study Between Australia and Indonesia (Part One).- Character Formation in Muslim and Christian Higher Education: A Comparative Case Study Between Australia and Indonesia (Part Two).- Nonviolent Interfaith Solidarity Jihad: Two Autobiographical Accounts.- Interfaith Community Gardening: Growing Food Justice.- Overcoming Religious Distance: Epiphanies in Cross-Cultural Settings.- “All Humans are Strangers—Almost Everywhere”: Autoethnographic Reflections on Interfaith Consciousness.

Über Autor(innen)

Associate Professor Johannes M. Luetz (BA/USA, MBA/Germany, Ph.D./Australia) is a senior social scientist based in Brisbane, Australia. He is the Director of Research Development and research ethics chair at Alphacrucis University College and holds adjunct appointments at the University of New South Wales and the University of the Sunshine Coast. He has lived and worked across countries and continents and conducts interdisciplinary humanitarian research at the science-faith, interfaith, and science-policy interface. As a global citizen raised between Africa, Europe, and Australia, he has published and edited widely in the areas of spirituality, sustainable development, and forced human migration, among others. He serves as editor on major international handbooks and interdisciplinary academic journals.

Professor Denise A. Austin (PhD/MA/BA Hons I) is Vice President (Academic) at Leaders Institute. She was formerly Deputy Vice President Research and Standards at Alphacrucis University College, Director of the Australasian Pentecostal Studies Centre, and Chair of the Theological Commission of Asia Pacific Theological Association. Denise received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Queensland, Australia, and has published widely in Pentecostal, Asian, and oral history, as well as higher education quality assurance. In 2021, she was awarded the Alphacrucis College Doctoral Supervision Excellence Award. Denise and her family have also served as missionaries in Hong Kong. Denise is listed on the Register of Experts for the Australian government’s Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency.

Dr. Adis Duderija is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Islam and Society, and former Senior Fellow of Centre for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue, Griffith University, at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of contemporary Islamic Studies, especially in relation to his work on gender and Islam, interfaith theory, the theory of progressive Islam and the Islamic interpretive tradition generally. In addition to over fifty journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries, Adis is also the author and editor of over half a dozen books at this time. He serves on the editorial board of several academic journals, and his scholarly works have been translated into Arabic, Indonesian, Urdu/Hindi and Bosnian.