{"title":"No Power Over God’s Bounty: A Christian Commentary on the “People of Scripture” in the Qur’an, by Pim Valkenberg.","authors":"Jon Paul Sydnor","doi":"10.1558/isit.21973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.21973","url":null,"abstract":"No Power Over God’s Bounty: A Christian Commentary on the “People of Scripture” in the Qur’an, by Pim Valkenberg. Paris: Peeters, 2021. xv + 444 pages. $103 US. Series: Christian Commentaries on Non-Christian Sacred Texts. ISBN 978 9042941779","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"190 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123386092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love, by David L. Johnston.","authors":"Joshua Canzona","doi":"10.1558/isit.19301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.19301","url":null,"abstract":"Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love, by David L. Johnston. Equinox Publishing, 2020. 202 pp., $32 US. ISBN 978 1781799352","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128869600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law, by Chaim N. Saiman.","authors":"E. Charry","doi":"10.1558/isit.20454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.20454","url":null,"abstract":"Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law, by Chaim N. Saiman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. 320 pp., Hb., $29.95 US/ £25.00. ISBN 978 0691152110","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124087964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theology without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative, edited by Jerry L. Martin.","authors":"H. Gustafson","doi":"10.1558/isit.20249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.20249","url":null,"abstract":"Theology without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative, edited by Jerry L. Martin. Routledge, 2020. xviii + 250 pp., Pb., $48.95 US. ISBN: 978 1032088631.","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124291002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Allah: God in the Qur’an, by Gabriel Said Reynolds.","authors":"George Obinna Ike","doi":"10.1558/isit.22127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.22127","url":null,"abstract":"Allah: God in the Qur’an, by Gabriel Said Reynolds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. x + 344 pages. $11.70 US. ISBN 978 0300246582","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126815960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Distance and Intergroup Contact","authors":"A. Ata, K. Baumann","doi":"10.1558/isit.20520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.20520","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of intergroup contact in reducing prejudices have been well documented, but few studies have investigated the importance of the broader context within which contact occurs. This article examines the predictors of social distance from Muslims in a large sample of (non-Muslim) German university students (N = 404). Intergroup contact was an important predictor of reduced social distance even after demographics and perceptions of parents, tertiary institutions, media and broader intergroup dynamics were taken into account. The contact-social distance relationship was, however, mediated in part by perceived parental support for intergroup relations and perceived fairness of media representation. Students’ perceptions of broader group dynamics relating to assigning positive and negative attributes largely impeded the relationship – more so for male students than female. The findings attest to the importance of the broader context within which contact occurs. Having contact with outgroup members leads to reduced social distance from the outgroup, but perceived norms and outgroup perceptions play a pivotal role in explaining this relationship.","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127736075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coping with a Qur’anic Truth Claim","authors":"Y.A.I.A. Ellethy","doi":"10.1558/isit.19378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.19378","url":null,"abstract":"Since the latter half of the twentieth century, Western philosophers of religion and scholars of religion have been fervently preoccupied with the question of religious truth claims and how to evaluate a Christian theological view of other religious traditions. This resulted in the standardization of inclusivism, exclusivism, and pluralism as distinct universal approaches to the truth claim predicament. Employing Qur’anic exegesis, hermeneutics, and the semantics of core Islamic concepts, this article offers a critique of this standardized typology as less relevant to the Muslim perspective of religious diversity. Based on an Islamic view of the relativity of human knowledge and the centrality of a revelatory epistemic premise, this typology is hardly akin to a Muslim traditional perspective. The Qur’an defines the boundaries between the Islamic truth claim, salvific exclusion, and the ethical codes for Muslims to deal with a worldly context that is ab initio diverse. This article argues that an Islamic pluralistic view, as delineated on the basis of the Qur’an, supersedes the dilemma of religious truth claims and seeks realistic ethical regulations to deal with religious otherness.","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"125 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131443509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward a “Religious Cosmopolitanism” in the Age of Globalization","authors":"Yunchul Yoo","doi":"10.1558/isit.20024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.20024","url":null,"abstract":"This article reflects critically on cosmopolitanism in our contemporary context of globalization. It examines whether cosmopolitanism can serve as an adequate anthropological perspective that responds sufficiently to the challenges of globalization, particularly in its economic, political, and cultural dimensions. Cosmopolitan anthropology is relevant and necessary in the age of globalization in that the critical challenge posed by today’s globalizing world is not only how to recognize differences per se but also, and more importantly, how to live together with all these differences. This requires our cosmopolitan awareness that we all are fellow human beings. This paper argues, however, that cosmopolitanism needs to be sublated into a religious cosmopolitanism by incorporating a theological anthropology that provides a more full-blown conception of being human as a concrete totality of all its constitutive relations whose ultimate source is God.","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128278678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age: Charles Taylor and Zen Buddhism in the West, by André van der Braak.","authors":"Leon Kooijmans","doi":"10.1558/isit.21117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.21117","url":null,"abstract":"Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age: Charles Taylor and Zen Buddhism in the West, by André van der Braak, Brill | Rodopi, 2020. xii + 260 pp., Pb. €55. ISBN 978-9004435070","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125128981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiple Religious Belonging and Religious Communities","authors":"Jonatan Hendriks, A. van der Braak","doi":"10.1558/isit.19596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.19596","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution investigates the concept “community” as a previously underexplored dimension of multiple religious belonging (MRB). A review of the MRB approach to multireligiosity reveals there has been paid relatively little attention to community influence and fluid, non-dualistic styles of religious belonging. We argue that these styles of multiple belonging cannot be accounted for by conventional understandings of MRB that assume a “World Religions Paradigm.” After reviewing two approaches to this problem, the article explores a rhizomatic approach to MRB and religious communities. To illustrate this approach, a brief review of several Dutch multireligious communities is presented.","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130161927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}