At the second major conference held in Salzburg in 2009 of The European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS), participants probed the broad theme of 'interreligious hermeneutics in a pluralistic Europe'. Due to the phenomenon of an increasingly plural Europe, questions arise about how we see each other's cultural heritage, religious traditions and sacred scriptures. Following the discussions that took place at the conference, this book focuses on the usage of texts in our global and mass media world, the possibility of 'scriptural reasoning', the theological...
At the second major conference held in Salzburg in 2009 of The European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS), partic...
Interkulturalitat ist zum allgegenwartigen Schlagwort geworden, das Weltoffenheit und Flexibilitat signalisiert. Die Herausforderung, die mit diesem Begriff verbunden ist, kommt allerdings nur selten zur Geltung. Ziel der interdisziplinaren Tagung -Interkulturalitat als Anspruch universitarer Lehre und Forschung- an der Universitat Salzburg am 1./2. Dezember 2011 war es, das Potential von Interkulturalitat von unterschiedlichen methodischen Zugangen her wahrzunehmen, interdisziplinar zu diskutieren und in seiner Relevanz fur Forschung und Lehre an der Universitat zu verdeutlichen. Inhaltlich...
Interkulturalitat ist zum allgegenwartigen Schlagwort geworden, das Weltoffenheit und Flexibilitat signalisiert. Die Herausforderung, die mit diesem B...
Migrations are contested sites of identity negotiations: they are not simply a process of border crossings but more so of border shiftings. Rather than allowing migrants to swiftly move across stable borders from one clearly defined identity to another, migrations question and renegotiate these very identities. Migrations undermine and re-establish borders along which the identity of migrants (and also that of the supposedly settled population) are constituted, and, as a discourse, migrations serve as a contested site of negotiating identities. Migrations reveal the negotiable character of...
Migrations are contested sites of identity negotiations: they are not simply a process of border crossings but more so of border shiftings. Rather tha...
«At long last, English-speaking readers now have access to the most comprehensive and insightful account of the vision that inspires the rapprochement and lived interreligious dialogue between Christians and Muslims inaugurated in the life and thought of the late Paolo Dall’Oglio S.J., and the interreligious community of al-Khalil in the monastery of Mar Musa in Syria. This book is «must reading» for all of us engaged in the dialogue between Muslims and Christians in the spirit of Nostra Aetate and the life and legacy of Louis Massignon.» (Rev. Dr. Sidney H Griffith, Catholic...
«At long last, English-speaking readers now have access to the most comprehensive and insightful account of the vision that inspires the rapprochemen...
