{"title":"Coexistence of Pluralities through Practices of Intercultural Relationships","authors":"Jorge E. Castillo Guerra","doi":"10.1558/37327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/37327","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates how migrants and refugees contribute to forms of co-existence among peoples with different religious and cultural orientations. Drawing on theories of intercultural philosophy and decolonial thinking, the author focuses on transformations of identity and faith among Catholic Latin American migrants in Europe and the United Sates of America. He argues that when these migrants encounter exclusion and uprooting, processes of transformation converge in parish communities. There they create mutual learning processes leading to new intercultural practices such as the deaconry of culture and relationship.","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126904994","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":"Editor’s Foreword","authors":"Nelly van Doorn‐Harder","doi":"10.1558/37324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/37324","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114098724","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":"Plenitudo","authors":"Angus M. Slater","doi":"10.1558/36609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/36609","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the possibility for a re-appraisal of the place and significance of the religious other within the work of the Radical Orthodoxy movement, particularly focused on early work by the central figure of John Milbank and the notion of plenitudo deployed and developed by Michael Hanby. In doing so, the notion of plenitude is identified as a critical part of a possible response to the mode of practice and theological conceptualisation of the religious other presented elsewhere within the Radical Orthodoxy movement, such as in the contemporary work and public engagement of John Milbank. This mode of practice remains overly focused on the end goal of narrative out-narration, undercutting broader commitments to the embodiment of Christian social peace. This article aims to show that this mode of practice currently employed is not a necessary one, and only one malfunctioning possibility among many.","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"7 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129445840","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":"Sufism, Pluralism and Democracy, edited by Bennett, Clinton, and Sarwar Alam.","authors":"Hans A. Harmakaputra","doi":"10.1558/35583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/35583","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125046033","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":"Latin American Liberation Theology as a Transforming Political Theology","authors":"S. Silber","doi":"10.1558/37328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/37328","url":null,"abstract":"Latin American Liberation Theology is a transforming theology in two senses: It is able to transform reality, as it has shown in these past decades, and it is transforming itself. This article shows how both types of meaning interweave. The transformations of Liberation Theology enable it to continuously adapt itself to new challenges in history. At present, this global theological movement is diversifying, or even fragmenting, in order to propose creative and effective solutions to different problems. Specifically, the Option for the Poor, which is at Liberation Theology’s core, currently presents profound challenges to European and Western theologies.","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121868870","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":"War, Musar, and the Construction of Humility in Modern Jewish Thought","authors":"Geoffrey D. Claussen","doi":"10.1558/37329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/37329","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers how the musar (virtue-focused) tradition in Jewish ethics may shape Jewish moral judgments on questions of war and peace, focusing on various constructions of the virtue of humility in modern Jewish thought. It gives particular attention to concepts of humility advanced by Menachem Mendel Lefin, the leading figure of the Polish Haskalah, and it suggests that Lefin’s model of critical selfassessment, especially if carried out in partnership with those from different nations or traditions, could help to restrain the misplaced pride, enthusiasm, and impulses to dehumanize enemies that may emerge at times of war. The article brings Lefin’s approach into dialogue with three Jewish thinkers who argued that proper humility should in some cases encourage the use of violence and even the dehumanization of enemies: the Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv, the American Reform rabbi Kaufmann Kohler, and the militant Orthodox Israeli rabbi Meir Kahane.","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117072908","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":"Religion and Extremism: Rejecting Diversity, by Douglas Pratt.","authors":"I. Mevorach","doi":"10.1558/37330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/37330","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123712332","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":"Is Political and Intercultural Theology Real Theology, and Why Should Anyone Care?","authors":"J. Rieger","doi":"10.1558/37326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/37326","url":null,"abstract":"Few would dispute that political and intercultural theologies are here to stay. What is disputed, however, is their place in the academy. It is frequently assumed that political and intercultural theologies are merely examples of special interests and concerns and thus optional, to be embraced by some but not by others. The terminology of contextual theology has added to the confusion, as contexts are often misunderstood as the special interests and concerns of some rather than others. This article argues that political and intercultural theologies are not optional but necessary for the academic study of theology and religion today. Rather than special interest, they promote fresh approaches to the common interest, challenging seemingly unilateral and universal approaches.","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126486632","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":"Why We Need an Engaged Interreligious Theology","authors":"P. Schmidt-Leukel","doi":"10.1558/ISIT.37325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/ISIT.37325","url":null,"abstract":"In contrast to various recent trends, this paper understands the engagement in “engaged interreligious theology” primarily as an engagement with the various religious truth claims. The overall goal of such engagement is not defined in terms of political or practical commitment but as the search for truth. Although the question of how the religions assess the salvific potential of other faiths and the compatibility or incompatibility of their respective beliefs has significant political implications, the paper argues that political or ideological interest must not take precedence over an open inquiry into truth according to the general standards of academic scholarship.","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126190762","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":"A Critical Reading of C.S. Song’s Asian Third-eye Liberation Theology for a Myanmar Intercontextual Liberation Theology of Pyithu-dukkha","authors":"D. Moe","doi":"10.1558/ISIT.33364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/ISIT.33364","url":null,"abstract":"Choan-Seng Song appeared when Asian theology was largely unknown to the world. He is one of the foremost Asian theologians to sing an Asian melody in a contextual key. His theology, however, is largely ignored today. This article rediscovers a new voice in Song for Asian contemporary theology. It pays particular attention to Song’s conceptualization and contextualization of Christology and its implications for his renowned hermeneutics of Asian Third-eye liberation theology. The author puts Song in a dialectical dialogue with his new hermeneutics of a Myanmar intercontextual liberation theology of Pyithu-dukkha and argues that liberation theology is deeply grounded in our spiritual and social reflection on God’s orthopathy (heart) and orthopraxy (hand). The article concludes by going with and beyond Song’s vision of Asian liberation as limited to the oppressed by proposing an inclusive liberation of both the oppressed and the oppressors. It shows how such an inclusive liberation can be attainable for a mutual vision of liberation from and liberation for. It is suggested that Asian Third-eye liberation theology should be reconceptualized and recontextualized as an orthopathic and orthopraxic theology that gives witness to the compassion and passion of Jesus Christ who takes a stand with the oppressed, resists and reconciles the oppressors for an embracive communion with him and with one another by the healing power of the Spirit.","PeriodicalId":323507,"journal":{"name":"Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130132077","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}