Understanding Interreligious Relations

The ways in which religious communities interact with one another is an increasing focus of scholarly research and teaching. Issues of interreligious engagement, inclusive of dialogue more specifically and relations more generally, attract widespread interest and concern. In a religiously pluralist world, how different communities get along with each other is not just an academic question; it is very much a focus of socio-political and wider community attention. The study ofreligions and religion in the 21st century world must necessarily take account of relations within and between religions,

ch. 1. Introduction / David Cheetham, Douglas Pratt, and David Thomas -- Part I. Religions and the religious other -- ch. 2. Religion and the religious other / David Cheetham -- ch. 3. Hinduism and the religious other / Jeffery D. Long -- ch. 4. Judaism and the religious other / Ed Kessler -- ch. 5. Buddhism and the religious other / Eizabeth J. Harris -- ch. 6. Christianity and the relgious other / Perry Schmidt-Leukel -- ch. 7. Islam and the religious other / David Thomas -- Part II. Themes and issues in interreligious relations -- ch. 8. Interreligious conversion / Andrew Wingate -- ch. 9. Interreligious dialogue / Marianne Moyaert -- ch. 10. Interreligious majority-minority dynamics / Peter C. Phan and Jonathan Y. Tan -- ch. 11. Fundamentalism, exclusivism, and relgious extremism / Douglas Pratt -- ch. 12. Encounter as conflict : interfaith peace-building / Anna Halafoff -- ch. 13. Interreligious engagement in the public sphere / Nicholas Adams -- ch. 14. Dialogue, liberation, and justice / Mario I. Aguilar -- ch. 15. Multiple religious belonging / Catherine Cornille -- ch. 16. Boundaries and encounters / David R. Vishanoff -- ch. 17. Interreligious cooperation / Paul Weller -…