- 187 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
Exploring a new approach to interfaith/interreligious communication, the contributors to this collection seek to interact from the perspective of their own tradition or academic discipline with Ernest Becker's theory on the relationship between religion, culture, and the human awareness of death and mortality. While much interfaith/interreligious dialogue focuses on beliefs and practices, thus delineating areas of disagreement as a starting point, these chapters foster interactive communication rooted in areas of the universal human experience. Thus, by demonstration these authors argue for the integrity and efficacy of this approach for pursuing intercultural and interdisciplinary communication.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- God Is Sometimes Great! The Glory and Shame of Religion
- The Nature of Consciousness
- Religion as Umbrella, Religion as Path
- L’Dor v’Dor: The Intergenerational Style of Hebraic ‘Immortality’
- Heroism, Sacrifice, and Jewish Identity
- Naming Our Incompleteness
- Death, Self, and Political Survival in Islam and Islamicate Contexts
- The Sacred Cosmos: Transcendence Without Absolutism
- Index
- About the Contributors