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ISBN: 978-90-420-2863-0

Series Statement: Currents of encounter 38

Language: English

Subjects: Theology

Keywords: Christentum ; Kultur ; Christentum ; Interreligiöser Dialog ; Weltreligion ; Christentum ; Interkonfessionelles Gespräch ; Ökumene ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Festschrift

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (124 pages)

ISBN: 9789004358003

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-120)

Additional Edition: ISBN 9789042028715

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Een waaier van gedachten over geloven – Bibliography of Published Works by Hendrik M. Vroom Leiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2010 ISBN 9789042028715

Language: Dutch

DOI: 10.1163/9789004358003

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (641 pages)

ISBN: 9789042028647

Series Statement: Currents of Encounter 38

Content: Preliminary Material -- Introductory Essay: Theology of Culture, Secularity, and Plurality /Wessel Stoker -- The Background and Nature of the Deep Changes in the Religious Realities in Modern Europe /André Droogers -- The Concept of Culture in Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, and Karl Barth /Cornelis van der Kooi -- The Role of Faith in Science and in Religion /Keith Ward -- Christian Faith and Reason: A Hermeneutical Approach /Edwin Koster -- Amor Mundi in a (Post)Liberal Era: The Relevance of an Arendtian Theme for Christian Self-Understanding Today /Ronald A. Kuipers -- Equality, Difference, and Justice /Ton van Prooijen -- Business Ethics and Intrinsic Motivation in a Pluralist World /Connie Aarsbergen -- Renewal of Civilization: Toward Justice and Peace /Henk E.S. Woldring -- Populism: A Blessing in Disguise for Democracy? /Govert J. Buijs -- Poverty, Oppression, and Christian Faith /Jerald D. Gort -- The Public Role of Churches in Present Democratic South Africa /Etienne de Villiers -- Imagination and Art in the Christian Faith: On Imagination and Art in the Church /Desiree Berendsen -- Language, Literature, and Transcendence: The Contribution of F.R. Leavis /Henry Jansen -- Readiness and Timing: The Early Modern Virtues of Hamlet’s Providential Christianity /Lourens Minnema -- Indigenous Spirituality and Sustainable Development: A Critical Appraisal of African Renaissance Rhetoric /Frans Wijsen -- African Philosophy, Contextualisation, Multiculturalism /W.L. van der Merwe -- Untouchables, Christians, and Hindus: How the Sacred World Order is Preserved and Renounced /Victor van Bijlert -- Contemporary Christian-Hindu Relations in Britain and the Netherlands /Jan Peter Schouten -- Superseded, Obstructive, or Crucial?: Christian Views of Judaism and its Sacred Texts /Alberdina Houtman -- Recent Developments in Christian-Jewish Dialogue /Simon Schoon -- Sympathy and Empathy: The Compassionate Bodhisattva and the Love of Christ /John D’Arcy May -- Christian and Buddhist Spiritualities: Their Differences and Complementarities /Christa Anbeek -- Present-Day Europe and Islam in Encounter: Emerging European Islam and its Dialogue Partners /Gé Speelman -- The Council of Churches in the Netherlands and its Encounter with Islam /Alle G. Hoekema -- Proximity and Distance China and the Christian West: An Essay in Intercultural Philosophy /Sander Griffioen -- Christian Views of the New Religiosities of the Western World /Reender Kranenborg -- Recent Ecclesiological Developments in the World Council of Churches: Continuity or Discontinuity? /Conrad J. Wethmar -- Conversion in the Ecumenical Debate: Great Joy or Great Discomfort? /Jan van Butselaar -- Confessio and Traditio: A Reformed Approach in Dialogue with the Lutheran Tradition /Michael Weinrich -- Christianity and Culture: WARC at the Millennium /George Newlands -- Intercultural Theology as the Integration of Ecumenism and Missiology: The Example of Current Latin American Christology /Martien E. Brinkman -- God Has No Favourites: Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue The Unity of God’s Creation /Anton Houtepen -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names -- Contributors.

Content: Christianity exists in relation to and interacts with its cultural environment in a number of ways. In this volume authors from a wide variety of backgrounds explore various facets of the relationship and interaction of Christianity with its cultural environment: politics, society, esthetics, religion and spirituality, and with itself. Divided into three main sections, Crossroad Discourses between Christianity and Culture looks at the interaction of Christianity with culture in the first section, with other religions and spiritualities in the second, and finally with itself in the third. The contributions engage in a critical examination of not only the culture in which Christianity finds itself but also in a critical examination of Christianity itself and its interaction with that culture. The editors hope that teachers, students, and readers in general will profit greatly from the critical articles contained in this book

Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Additional Edition: ISBN 9789042028630

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Crossroad discourses between Christianity and culture Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2010 ISBN 9789042028630

Language: English

DOI: 10.1163/9789042028647

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (377 pages)

ISBN: 9789401204620

Series Statement: Currents of encounter 33

Content: Preliminary Material -- Probing Evil and Good: On the Imperative and Benefits of Taking Tea Together /Jerald D. Gort -- Myths as Metaphors for Radical Evil /Wendy Doniger -- Maya as Evil: From Classical Hindu Thought to Bhakti Saints and Kabir. A Historical Exploration /Dinesh Prasad Saklani -- The Struggle with Evil: The Theology of Evil in the Bhagavad Gita and the Devimahatmya /Victor A. van Bijlert -- Evil and its Treatment in Early Taoism /John Lagerwey -- The Problem of Evil in Confucianism /Ching-yuen Cheung -- Evil and the Transformation of Evil in Buddhism and Socially Engaged Buddhism /Christa W. Anbeek -- Zen and the Question of Evil /Sodo Yasunaga -- Nothingness-qua-Love?: The Implications of Absolute Nothingness for Ethics /John D’Arcy May -- The Problem of “Evil” in Pure Land Buddhism /Martin Repp -- Awareness of Evil in Christianity and Buddhism /Eiko Hanaoka -- Emptying Good-and-Evil: Masao Abe’s Approach to the Problem of Evil /Annewieke Vroom -- Forgiving God: A Jewish Perspective on Evil and Suffering /N. Verbin -- Conceptualizations of Evil in African Christian Theology /Conrad Wethmar -- The Descent into Hell and the Phenomenon of Exorcism in the Early Church /Martien E. Brinkman -- God’s Good Plan and Evil Forces in This World: The Place of the Devil in Traditional Islam /Annemiek Spronk -- “Soul of a Woman Was Created Below”: Woman as the Lower Soul (Nafs) in Islam /Rkia E. Cornell -- Evil, Virtue, and Islamic Moral Theology: Rethinking the Good in a Globalized World /Vincent J. Cornell -- The Islamic Point of View on the Problem of Evil /Saeid Edalatnejad -- Critical Humanism and the Problem of Evil: From Vertical to Horizontal Transcendence /Harry Kunneman -- Evil from a Comparative Perspective /Hendrik M. Vroom -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Contributors to this Volume.

Content: In the few years since the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, evil has become a central theme in the media and human consciousness: the evil of terrorism, the evil of secular culture, concern for poverty, and climate change... Yet different cultures and religious traditions have different ideas of what evil is and what its root causes are. Although there is no massive clash of cultures, many disagreements and also conflicts in the world arise from the deep differences in views of evil. This volume explores religious views of evil. Scholars from different religions and from various parts of the world describe how people probe the depths of evil—and by necessity that of good—from their own background in various worldviews. In their explorations, almost all address the need to go beyond morality, and beyond legalistic definitions of evil and of good. They point to the radical depths of evil in the world and in human society and reinforce our intuition that there is no easy solution. But if we can gain a better understanding of what people from other worldview traditions and cultures consider evil, we are that much closer to a more peaceful world

Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Additional Edition: ISBN 9789042022317

Additional Edition: ISBN 9042022310

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Probing the depths of evil and good Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007 ISBN 9789042022317

Additional Edition: ISBN 9042022310

Language: English

DOI: 10.1163/9789401204620

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Format: XI, 306 S.

ISBN: 9042002131 , 904200228X

Series Statement: Currents of encounter 12

Language: English

Subjects: Romance Studies

Keywords: Koran ; Tafsir ; Bibel ; Hermeneutik ; Konferenzschrift

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ISBN: 9789004494671 , 9789042014602

Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 17

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Preface. Part I: Defining the Parameters. Jerald D. GORT and Hendrik M. VROOM: Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation. André DROOGERS: Religious Reconciliation: A View from the Social Sciences. Hendrik M. VROOM: The Nature and Origins of Religious Conflicts: Some Philosophical Considerations. Part II: Perspectives on Conflict and Reconciliation. Victor A. van BIJLERT: Hindus and Muslims in Bengal: Is Religious Experience a Unifying Factor? Corstiaan J.G. van der BURG: Religious Conflict and Hindu Tolerance. S. GANGADARAN: Liberation Theology in South India. Lourens MINNEMA: Divided Families and Social Conflict: Comparing a Greek Tragedy and an Indian Drama. Michael McGHEE: Buddhist Thoughts on Conflict, 'Reconciliation' ... and Religion. Tzvi MARX: Theological Preparation for Reconciliation in Judaism. Cees van der KOOI: Three Models of Reconciliation: A Christian Approach. Jerald D. GORT: Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation Ecumenical Initiatives Amidst Human Brokenness and Community Division. Anton WESSELS: Can the Children of Abraham be Reconciled: Ishmael and Isaac in the Bible and the Qur'an. Connie AARSBERGEN: Isaiah Berlin: Teleological Thinking as a Cause of Conflict. Henry JANSEN: The Road to Sainthood: Reconciliation in Graham Greene's The End of the Affair. Desiree BERENDSEN: Secular Saints: The Possibility of Reconciliation Without Transcendence. Claudia ROMBERG: Women in Engaged Buddhism. Tirza VISSER: Islam, Gender and Reconciliation: Making Room for New Gender Perspectives. Part III: Case Studies of Conflict and Reconciliation. Agus Rachmat WIDYANTO: Interreligious Conflict and Reconciliation in Indonesia. Herman L. BECK: A Pillar of Social Harmony: The Study of Comparative Religion in Contemporary Indonesia during the New Order. Chakravarti RAM-PRASAD: Religious Reconciliation as a Challenge of Governance: India at the Start of the Twenty-First Century. Ashgar Ali ENGINEER: Islam and Muslims in India: Problems of Identity and Existence. Swami AGNIVESH: Processes of Reconciliation in India. Andreas D'SOUZA: Reconciliation in Practice: Indian Experience. Nalin SWARIS: Religion, Conflict, and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka. Piet MEIRING: Truth and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Farid ESACK: An Islamic View of Conflict and Reconciliation in the South African Situation. Ton van PROOIJEN: On Playing Reconciliation in a Situation of Racist Conflict. Frans WIJSEN and Bernardine MFUMBUSA: Seeds of Conflict: Christian-Muslim Relations in Tanzania. Jan van BUTSELAAR: Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation in Rwanda. Donna WINSLOW: Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation in Bosnia Herzegovina. Reender KRANENBORG: Peace, Reconciliation and New Religious Movements. Part IV: The Papers and the Discussions: Reaping the Harvest. André DROOGERS: Why Do Religious Groups Become Involved in Conflicts? Victor A. van BIJLERT: The Meaning of Reconciliation. Josien FOLBERT: A Blueprint for the Process of Peace and Reconciliation. Karel STEENBRINK: Views of Conflict and Reconciliation. Index of Names. Index of Subjects. Contributors.

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation : Multifaith Ideals and Realities Leiden : BRILL, 2002 ISBN 9789042014602

Language: English

DOI: 10.1163/9789004494671

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ISBN: 9789401202329 , 9789042018587

Series Statement: Currents of Encounter 25

Content: Because religion is so central to the lives and experience of the vast majority of people throughout the world, it figures very prominently in a variety of ways in interhuman relations. Unfortunately, 'religion' often appears to be one of the potent sources of mistrust, discord and strife between and among individuals, groups and cultures. What frequently lies at the root of such suspicion and dissension is general ignorance concerning the religious other, a lack of knowledge about his or her beliefs, aspirations and views of the good and morally honorable life. And even if people have some factual knowledge about other religions, they regularly display little understanding of them and their adherents. Learning both to know and understand people of other faiths and their religions is absolutely requisite to the realization of paradigms of coherent and intelligent 'convivance,' that is, living together in sensible, peaceable and cooperative harmony. An effective agency for fostering such knowledge and understanding is the discipline of theology of religions, which examines how religions have and ought to view other religions. And it is particularly the practice of comparative theology of religions which bears the most promise in this regard. The present symposium consists of precisely this kind of comparative exercise and may be viewed as an important contribution to the development of a new project which endeavors to enlarge the horizon and broaden the focus and reflection of theology of religions as that has been gradually developed during the last few decades, a new enterprise, in other words, which seeks to universalize and mutualize theology-of-religions discourse. One of the important things this volume shows is that the views religions have of other religions differ from one another in very substantial ways, which is explained by the fact that they derive from diverging paradigms of faith, belief and ritual and specific cultural and social contexts. This textbook demonstrates how strongly different Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto and Confucian views are from those of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, which latter in turn also exhibit considerable differences among themselves. These differences are greater than people immersed in their own cultures often realize or expect. It is becoming ever more clear that ignorance of or disinclination to acknowledge or refusal to accept these real differences constitute major root causes of serious conflicts in the world. The essays in this book, written by representatives of the major world religions, offer descriptive and/or prescriptive appraisals of other religions in general or one other religion in particular from the perspective of the religion of the author concerned. It is hoped that this unique exercise in intercultural theology of religions will generate insights and new forms of understanding which can be used by religious leaders and other educators to help correct the disposition toward religious haughtiness, insularity and communalism and the dangerous leanings toward interreligious suspicion, antipathy and animosity which are all too often evident in our contemporary societies

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Jerald D. GORT: Religions View Religions: General Introduction -- PART I: RELIGIONS VIEW OTHER RELIGIONS IN GENERAL -- Haruo SAKURAI: The Religion of Self-Awareness: The Co-existence of Religions From the Perspective of Shinto -- Shinryo TAKADA: Is "Theology of Religions" Possible in (Pure Land / Shin) Buddhism? The "Shock of Non-being" and the "Shock of Revelation" -- Margaret W. IZUTSU: Emulating Their Good Qualities, Taking their Defects as a Warning: Confucian Attitudes toward Other Religions -- G.C. NAYAK: Hinduism: A Descriptive and/or Prescriptive Appraisal of Other Religions in General by Hinduis -- Aviezer RAVITZKY: Judaism Views Other Religions -- Jerald D. GORT: Theologia Religionum : The Case of Christianity from the Perspective of Ecumenical Thought -- Jacques WAARDENBURG: Classical Attitudes in Islam towards Other Religions -- PART II: RELIGIONS VIEW OTHER SPECIFIC RELIGIONS -- John MBITI: "The Hen Knows When It is Dawn, But Leaves the Crowing to the Cock:" African Religion Looks at Islam -- Chakravarthi RAM-PRASAD: Hindu Perspectives on Islam -- Asghar Ali ENGINEER: Muslims' View of Hindus in the Past and Present -- Nitin J. VYAS: Hinduism and Buddhism as Ways of Faiths: A Reappraisal -- Krishna B. BHATTACHAN: Nepalese Buddhists' View of Hinduism -- John B. CARMAN: When Hindus Become Christian: Religious Conversion and Spiritual Ambiguity -- Heup Young KIM: Christianity's View of Confucianism: An East Asian Theology of Religions -- Eiko HANAOKA-KAWAMURA: Buddhism and Christianity from a Christian-Buddhist Perspective -- Anton WESSELS: Muslims and Christians between Confrontation and Dialogue -- Keith WARD: Secular Views of Religion -- AFTERWORD: QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS -- Hendrik M. VROOM: Theology of Religions: Observations -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Contributors.

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Religions View Religions : Explorations in Pursuit of Understanding Leiden : BRILL, 2006 ISBN 9789042018587

Language: English

DOI: 10.1163/9789401202329

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Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Series Statement: Currents of encounter ; 33

Note: This volume is part of the project on The problem of evil in religious traditions: origins, forms and coping, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Vrije Universiteit and the exhibition "Religion & Evil" in the Tropenmuseum.

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Format: 1 online resource (641 pages)

ISBN: 9789042028647

Series Statement: Currents of Encounter ; 38

Content: Christianity exists in relation to and interacts with its cultural environment in a number of ways. In this volume authors from a wide variety of backgrounds explore various facets of the relationship and interaction of Christianity with its cultural environment: politics, society, esthetics, religion and spirituality, and with itself. Divided into three main sections, Crossroad Discourses between Christianity and Culture looks at the interaction of Christianity with culture in the first section, with other religions and spiritualities in the second, and finally with itself in the third. The contributions engage in a critical examination of not only the culture in which Christianity finds itself but also in a critical examination of Christianity itself and its interaction with that culture. The editors hope that teachers, students, and readers in general will profit greatly from the critical articles contained in this book.

Note: Preliminary Material -- , Introductory Essay: Theology of Culture, Secularity, and Plurality / , The Background and Nature of the Deep Changes in the Religious Realities in Modern Europe / , The Concept of Culture in Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, and Karl Barth / , The Role of Faith in Science and in Religion / , Christian Faith and Reason: A Hermeneutical Approach / , Amor Mundi in a (Post)Liberal Era: The Relevance of an Arendtian Theme for Christian Self-Understanding Today / , Equality, Difference, and Justice / , Business Ethics and Intrinsic Motivation in a Pluralist World / , Renewal of Civilization: Toward Justice and Peace / , Populism: A Blessing in Disguise for Democracy? / , Poverty, Oppression, and Christian Faith / , The Public Role of Churches in Present Democratic South Africa / , Imagination and Art in the Christian Faith: On Imagination and Art in the Church / , Language, Literature, and Transcendence: The Contribution of F.R. Leavis / , Readiness and Timing: The Early Modern Virtues of Hamlet's Providential Christianity / , Indigenous Spirituality and Sustainable Development: A Critical Appraisal of African Renaissance Rhetoric / , African Philosophy, Contextualisation, Multiculturalism / , Untouchables, Christians, and Hindus: How the Sacred World Order is Preserved and Renounced / , Contemporary Christian-Hindu Relations in Britain and the Netherlands / , Superseded, Obstructive, or Crucial?: Christian Views of Judaism and its Sacred Texts / , Recent Developments in Christian-Jewish Dialogue / , Sympathy and Empathy: The Compassionate Bodhisattva and the Love of Christ / , Christian and Buddhist Spiritualities: Their Differences and Complementarities / , Present-Day Europe and Islam in Encounter: Emerging European Islam and its Dialogue Partners / , The Council of Churches in the Netherlands and its Encounter with Islam / , Proximity and Distance China and the Christian West: An Essay in Intercultural Philosophy / , Christian Views of the New Religiosities of the Western World / , Recent Ecclesiological Developments in the World Council of Churches: Continuity or Discontinuity? / , Conversion in the Ecumenical Debate: Great Joy or Great Discomfort? / , Confessio and Traditio: A Reformed Approach in Dialogue with the Lutheran Tradition / , Christianity and Culture: WARC at the Millennium / , Intercultural Theology as the Integration of Ecumenism and Missiology: The Example of Current Latin American Christology / , God Has No Favourites: Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue The Unity of God's Creation / , Index of Subjects -- , Index of Names -- , Contributors.

Additional Edition: Print version: Crossroad discourses between Christianity and culture . Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2010 ISBN 9789042028630

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Format: 1 online resource (312 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 9789004669963

Series Statement: Currents of Encounter ; 8

Content: Currents of Encounter invites scholarly contributions that utilize interreligious, intercultural, comparative, postcolonial, and other contemporary critical interdisciplinary approaches from across all religious traditions, to address topical questions on the challenges and opportunities arising from intercultural/interreligious engagements, or the intersections of cultures and religions. Studies dealing explicitly with the dynamics of the intersection of religious and cultural traditions are increasing every year, and scholars have become aware of the complexity and diversity of interreligious and intercultural relations. Recent literature offers a broad panoply of theoretical approaches from theologies of religions to comparative theologies, from discourse analysis to a postcolonial critique focusing on issues of power, from feminist readings asking about the specific role of women in interreligious dialogue to interreligious hermeneutics exploring how meaning may travel across cultural and religious traditions. Currents of Encounter welcomes this variety of works in these disciplines and from interdisciplinary perspectives aiming thus to contribute to a better understanding of the complexities of interreligious and intercultural themes. The board welcomes both monographs and edited volumes. Possible domains: - interreligious studies - intercultural theology and philosophy - comparative theology and philosophy - theologies of religions

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Additional Edition: Print version: Human Rights and Religious Values : An Uneasy Relationship?. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1995. ISBN 9789051837773

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