Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions

ISBN-13: 9781441158086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str.

James Taylor

Opis

'Hosting the Stranger' investigates interreligious hospitality from five different religious perspectives: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION PART ONE: HOSTING THE STRANGER Chapter 1: Hospitality in Translation: Hosting the Stranger as a Work of Mourning James Taylor Chapter 2: Western Hospitality to Eastern Thought Joseph O'Leary Chapter 3: Interreligious Hospitality and its Limits Catherine Cornille Chapter 4: Departures: Hospitality as Mediation Kalpana Seshadri Chapter 5: Misgivings About Misgivings and the Nature of a Home: Some Reflections on the Role of Jewish Tradition in Derrida's Account of Hospitality Jacob Meskin PART TWO: INTERRELIGIOUS HOSPITALITY I. Jewish Perspectives Chapter 6: The Open Tent: Angels and Strangers Edward Kaplan Chapter 7: Sukkot: Levinas and the Festival of the Cabins Hugh Cummins II. Christian Perspectives Chapter 8: Hospitable by Calling, Inhospitable by Nature Patrick Hederman Chapter 9: Biblical, Ethical and Hermeneutical Reflections On Narrative Hospitality Marianne Moyaert III. Buddhist Perspectives Chapter 10: The Awakening of Hospitality John Makransky Chapter 11: Buddhism and Hospitality: Expecting the Unexpected and Acting Virtuously Andy Rotman IV. Islamic Perspectives Chapter 12: The Dead and the City: The Limits of Hospitality in the Early Modern Levant Dana Sajdi Chapter 13: Some Reflections on Hospitality in Islam Joseph Lumbard V. Hindu Perspectives Chapter 14: Food, the Guest, and the Taittiriya Upanisad: Hospitality in the Hindu Traditions Francis Clooney Chapter 15: God as Guest: Hospitality in Hindu Culture Swami Tyagananda NOTES CONTRIBUTORS