Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue

ISBN-13: 9781138008717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str.

Henrique Pinto

Opis

This work develops a new model for interfaith dialogue and the role it ought to play in the constitution of the self and the making of society using Foucault's work on the de-centring of transcendence and human reason.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Roman Catholic Church and the other of itself -- The Roman Catholic Church and the other of other faiths -- Alternative approaches to other religions -- A centred theology of religions -- Michel Foucault -- Foucault’s critique of the anthropological sleep of modernity -- Power, truth and critique -- The constitution of self as an ethical subject -- An ethical sensibility to the other -- The human /divine face of existence in the flux of bio-history -- Language, theology and the More

O autorze

Henrique Pinto is the Founder of the Portuguese Association for Interfaith Dialogue, UNIVERSOS and lectures in the Philosophy of Religions at the Modern University in Lisbon. He is an invited researcher and a member of the scientific counsel of a Centre of Studies (CEPCEP) at the Portuguese Catholic University in Lisbon. He has also contributed to Foucault and Theology edited by James Benhaven and Jeremy Carrette. He is currently working on a study relating to religion and immigration.