Author: Alexander Henn Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253013003 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 230
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The state of Goa on India's southwest coast was once the capital of the Portuguese-Catholic empire in Asia. When Vasco Da Gama arrived in India in 1498, he mistook Hindus for Christians, but Jesuit missionaries soon declared war on the alleged idolatry of the Hindus. Today, Hindus and Catholics assert their own religious identities, but Hindu village gods and Catholic patron saints attract worship from members of both religious communities. Through fresh readings of early Portuguese sources and long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this study traces the history of Hindu-Catholic syncretism in Goa and reveals the complex role of religion at the intersection of colonialism and modernity.
Author: Bob Robinson Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1610975960 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 411
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With rare exceptions, serious intentional, reflective and sustained interfaith encounter is a novel and recent enterprise. This book looks in detail at one such encounter--the intentional recent Hindu-Christian dialog in India--and asks why and how the practice of dialog came to replace previous attitudes of confrontation and monologue (especially on the part of Christians). Part I sets the encounter in its global context. Part II offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of the actual encounter. Part III draws on aspects of the Christian tradition as it critically examines the ways in which the dialog has been justified in Christological categories. A final chapter discusses the future of the encounter. Unlike many other works in the area of interfaith studies, this work combines both descriptive detail of the actual encounter and critical theological analysis of the strengths and weakness of the dialog model.
Author: Marc A. Pugliese Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190677562 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 369
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Divided into five components of teaching interreligious encounters--Theory, Design, Textual Analysis, Practice, and Formation--this volume guides both new teachers and seasoned scholars in addressing the sometimes challenging questions raised by contact between divergent faiths.
Author: Diana L. Eck Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 0807073040 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 288
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A clarion call for interfaith dialogue in the U.S., this “splendid exposition of non-Christian approaches to God . . . encourages an increased religious literacy that . . . will contribute richness and diversity to our national identity” (Publishers Weekly) In this tenth-anniversary edition of Encountering God, religious scholar Diana Eck shows why dialogue with people of other faiths remains crucial in today’s interdependent world—globally, nationally, and even locally. As the director of the Pluralism Project—which seeks to map the new religious diversity of the United States, from Hinduism and Buddhism to Islam—she reveals how her own encounters with other religions have shaped and enlarged her Christian faith toward a bold new Christian pluralism.
Author: James L. Heft S. M. Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199827885 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 235
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How can the world's many religions overcome ideological differences and come together to promote understanding, justice and peace? In this groundbreaking volume, James L. Heft and fifteen other leading scholars of the world's major religions show how to answer this crucial question.
Author: Mariasusai Dhavamony Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004494278 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 222
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Dialogue is an integral part of the mission of the Christian church. The immensity of the ocean of Hindu doctrine and thought presents a significant obstacle to Christians who have been invited by the Roman Catholic Church to “scrutinize the divine Mystery” present in other religions. Many, fascinated by Hindu mysticism, confuse permanent Hindu beliefs with certain current Western religious movements. India’s quest for the divine embodies multiple forms. Its millennia-old methods of meditation and varieties of asceticism often confuse those who are less inclined to experience of an inner spiritual nature. This book attempts to address some of these difficulties and questions. It is the author’s belief that in the Hindu-Christian encounter the Christian believer will also rediscover the originality and newness of the Christian revelation, viz. the intervention of God in the history of salvation whereby God reveals his salvific love in Jesus Christ. Possessing expert knowledge of both Hinduism and Christianity, the author approaches the Hindu-Christian dialogue with sympathy and discernment.
Author: Alexander Henn
Author: Nicholapillai Maria Saveri
Author: Harold Coward
Author: Bob Robinson
Author: Sita Ram Goel
Author: Nelson M. Falcao
Author: Marc A. Pugliese
Author: Diana L. Eck
Author: James L. Heft S. M.
Author: Mariasusai Dhavamony