Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions
by Kearney, Richard; Taylor, JamesFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-03-10
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary
Investigates interreligious hospitality from five different religious perspectives: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION PART ONE: HOSTING THE STRANGERChapter 1: Hospitality in Translation: Hosting the Stranger as a Work of MourningJames Taylor Chapter 2: Western Hospitality to Eastern ThoughtJoseph O'Leary Chapter 3: Interreligious Hospitality and its Limits Catherine CornilleChapter 4: Departures: Hospitality as Mediation Kalpana SeshadriChapter 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 MeskinPART TWO: INTERRELIGIOUS HOSPITALITYI. Jewish PerspectivesChapter 6: The Open Tent: Angels and StrangersEdward KaplanChapter 7: Sukkot: Levinas and the Festival of the CabinsHugh Cummins II. Christian PerspectivesChapter 8: Hospitable by Calling, Inhospitable by NaturePatrick HedermanChapter 9: Biblical, Ethical and Hermeneutical Reflections On Narrative Hospitality Marianne MoyaertIII. Buddhist PerspectivesChapter 10: The Awakening of HospitalityJohn Makransky Chapter 11: Buddhism and Hospitality: Expecting the Unexpected and Acting Virtuously Andy RotmanIV. Islamic PerspectivesChapter 12: The Dead and the City: The Limits of Hospitality in the Early Modern Levant Dana SajdiChapter 13: Some Reflections on Hospitality in IslamJoseph LumbardV. Hindu PerspectivesChapter 14: Food, the Guest, and the Taittiriya Upanisad: Hospitality in the HinduTraditionsFrancis ClooneyChapter 15: God as Guest: Hospitality in Hindu CultureSwami TyaganandaNOTESCONTRIBUTORS
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