Pub Date : 2019-09-04DOI: 10.4324/9780429019678-15
P. Jonkers
This paper argues that religious violence can be interpreted as resulting from the disproportion between the transcendent, elusive character of the divine and the need of a religious community for identity. This explains why the divine has to be contained in finite, human categories. Inevitably, these categories mark the distinction between inclusion and exclusion, as well as between orthodoxy and heresy. Hence, religious violence can be explained as a problematic reaction to the threat of the loss of religious identity. Against this background, the final section explores how this reaction can be averted. Paradoxically, the very absoluteness of God and of religious truth that critics of religion often see as monotheism’s greatest weakness becomes a resource for identifying religious violence as a religious failure to admit one’s own fundamental limitations in understanding the divine. Hence, faithful are called upon to practice the virtues of epistemic humility and religious hospitality in their dealings with other religions.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-05DOI: 10.4324/9780429019678-16
Victoria S. Harrison
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Pub Date : 2019-08-05DOI: 10.4324/9780429019678-10
Katherine Dormandy
{"title":"“In abundance of counsellors there is victory” 1","authors":"Katherine Dormandy","doi":"10.4324/9780429019678-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429019678-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166183,"journal":{"name":"Religious Truth and Identity in an Age of Plurality","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122364013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-08-05DOI: 10.4324/9780429019678-14
Klaus von Stosch
{"title":"Reconsidering the concept of mission in the light of comparative theology","authors":"Klaus von Stosch","doi":"10.4324/9780429019678-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429019678-14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166183,"journal":{"name":"Religious Truth and Identity in an Age of Plurality","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115209032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epistemic desiderata and religious plurality","authors":"Oliver J. Wiertz","doi":"10.4324/9780429019678-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429019678-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166183,"journal":{"name":"Religious Truth and Identity in an Age of Plurality","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114713225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to Part II: the epistemic consequences of religious diversity","authors":"Katherine Dormandy, Oliver J. Wiertz","doi":"10.4324/9780429019678-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429019678-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166183,"journal":{"name":"Religious Truth and Identity in an Age of Plurality","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128356395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Truth, meaning and interreligious understanding","authors":"Åke Wahlberg","doi":"10.4324/9780429019678-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429019678-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166183,"journal":{"name":"Religious Truth and Identity in an Age of Plurality","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134036972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Belief as an artefact","authors":"Elena Kalmykova","doi":"10.4324/9780429019678-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429019678-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166183,"journal":{"name":"Religious Truth and Identity in an Age of Plurality","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132655037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-08-05DOI: 10.4324/9780429019678-12
Victoria S. Harrison
{"title":"Introduction to Part III: practical questions concerning religious diversity","authors":"Victoria S. Harrison","doi":"10.4324/9780429019678-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429019678-12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166183,"journal":{"name":"Religious Truth and Identity in an Age of Plurality","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126391003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-08-05DOI: 10.4324/9780429019678-13
Löffler Sj Alexander
{"title":"Christians and the practice of Zen","authors":"Löffler Sj Alexander","doi":"10.4324/9780429019678-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429019678-13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166183,"journal":{"name":"Religious Truth and Identity in an Age of Plurality","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133387251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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