Hosting the stranger : between religions

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Hosting the stranger : between religions

edited by Richard Kearney and James Taylor

Continuum, c2011

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Hospitality in Translation: Hosting the Stranger as a Work of Mourning / James Taylor
  • Western Hospitality to Eastern Thought / Joseph O'Leary
  • Interreligious Hospitality and its Limits / Catherine Cornille
  • Departures: Hospitality as Mediation / Kalpana Seshadri
  • 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
  • The Open Tent: Angels and Strangers / Edward Kaplan
  • Sukkot: Levinas and the Festival of the Cabins / Hugh Cummins
  • Hospitable by Calling, Inhospitable by Nature / Patrick Hederman
  • Biblical, Ethical and Hermeneutical Reflections On Narrative Hospitality / Marianne Moyaert
  • The Awakening of Hospitality / John Makransky
  • Buddhism and Hospitality: Expecting the Unexpected and Acting Virtuously / Andy Rotman
  • The Dead and the City: The Limits of Hospitality in the Early Modern / Levant Dana Sajdi
  • Some Reflections on Hospitality in Islam / Joseph Lumbard
  • Food, the Guest, and the Taittiriya Upanisad: Hospitality in the Hindu Traditions / Francis Clooney
  • God as Guest: Hospitality in Hindu Culture / Swami Tyagananda

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Description

This book investigates interreligious hospitality from five different religious perspectives: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. "Hosting the Stranger" features ten powerful meditations on the theme of interreligious hospitality by eminent scholars and practitioners from the five different wisdom traditions: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. By gathering thinkers from different religious traditions around the same timely topic of what it means to "host the stranger," this text enacts the hospitality it investigates, facilitating a hopeful and constructive dialogue between the world's major religions. The first part of the volume offers five different hermeneutic readings that each wrestle with what interreligious hospitality means and what it demands. The second part is divided equally between the five different religious perspectives on hosting the stranger, with two thinkers representing each religion. Together these essays remind us of the urgent need for interreligious hospitality, and more importantly, they testify to its ongoing possibility.

Table of Contents

  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE: HOSTING THE STRANGER
  • Between Hospitality and Hostility, by Richard Kearney (Boston College)
  • Translating Hospitality: Paul Ricoeur's Ethics of Translation, by James Taylor (Boston College)
  • Abraham's Strangers: A Hermeneutic Wager, by Marianne Moyaert (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
  • Hosts and Guests: East-West Dialogue, by Joseph O'Leary (University Sophia, Tokyo)
  • Impossible Hospitality: A Deconstructive Dilemma, by Chris Yates (Boston College)
  • PART TWO: INTERRELIGIOUS HOSPITALITY
  • I. Jewish Perspectives
  • The Open Tent: Angels and Strangers, by Edward Kaplan (Brandeis University)
  • Widows, Orphans, Strangers, by Jacob Meskin (Northeastern University)
  • II. Christian Perspectives
  • Interreligious Hospitality and its Limits, by Catherine Cornille (Boston College)
  • Welcoming the Stranger, by Patrick Hederman (Abbot, Glenstal Abbey)
  • III. Buddhist Perspectives
  • The Awakening of Hospitality, by John Makransky (Boston College)
  • Buddhism and Hospitality: Expecting the Unexpected and Acting Virtuously, by Andy Rotman (Smith College)
  • IV. Hindu Perspectives
  • Hindu Hostings, by Francis Clooney (Harvard University)
  • The Hospitality of Worship, by Swami Tyagananda (Harvard University)
  • V. Islamic Perspectives
  • The Dead and the City: The Limits of Hospitality in the Early Modern Levant, by Dana Sadji (Boston College)
  • This House is Your House: The Islamic Virtue of Hospitality, by Joseph Lumbard (Brandeis University).

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