Fear and Friendship
Anglicans Engaging with Islam
- 224 pages
- English
- PDF
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Fear and Friendship
Anglicans Engaging with Islam
About this book
Many encounters between people of different religions are marked by an initial sense of incompetence, ignorance and fear-- of getting it wrong, of causing offence, of ulterior motives. Such fears are here explored honestly, in stories of actual situations and relationships - often unexpected, sometimes funny, invariably profound.Friendship is presented as a public rather than merely a private phenomenon, enabling relations of trust and depth to develop and leading to the possibility of authentic talk and reciprocity of respect and courtesy. It emerges as a risky venture in learning how to be human, involving honest negotiation, self-sacrifice and a seeking after the truth. It can enable people to address the fears that so often prohibit inter-religious encounters from deepening beyond the superficial. A strong underlying theme is how the Church of England can contribute to social cohesion in a religiously pluralistic society, even if local clergy and congregations at first feel untrained or wary.
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Table of contents
- Foreword – Sarah Coakley
- Preface
- 1 Fear and Friendship: Conversation or Conversion? – Alex Hughes
- 2 ‘Strangers and Neighbours’: The Springfield Project and Barelwi Mosque Next Door – Edmund Newey in conversation with Richard Sudworth
- 3 From Identity Politics to Engagement: Making Sense of Muslim Communities in Britain – Philip Lewis
- 4 Islamophobia – Nuzhat Ali
- 5 Much Ado About Nothing at Bradford Cathedral – Frances Ward
- 6 Via Media – Miriam Mushayi, Imran Manzoor and Javaad Alipoor
- 7 The Importance of Offence: Satire, the Church of England and Islam – Rachel Mann
- 8 Giving Place: Exploring Christian Hospitality – Ian Wallis
- 9 Scriptural Reasoning – Catriona Laing
- 10 Hospitality in Prayer – Judith, SLG
- Afterword – Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury
- A Note on the 2009 Littlemore Conference at St Andrew’s, Handsworth – Edmund Newey