Religious Discourse, Power Relations, and Interreligious Illumination

This essay deals with the extent to which a sociological inquiry of the comparative study of religion would be mutually beneficial through reciprocal illumination in a Buddhist-Christian context. Our critical comparative theology can be advanced in reference to Francis Clooney's comparative the...

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Published in:Journal of ecumenical studies
Authors: Chung, Paul S. 1958- (Author) ; Watters, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2018
In: Journal of ecumenical studies
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AX Inter-religious relations
BL Buddhism
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
Further subjects:B Comparative Theology
B Problematization
B interreligious illumination. Buddhism and Christianity
B immanent critique
B Bodhicitta
B Christianity
B Emptiness
B Buddhism
B comparative hermeneutics
B homo lector
B BUDDHIST doctrines
B blamage effect
B Bodhicitta (Buddhism)
B BODHICARYAVATARA (Book)
B selective affinity
B Theologia Crucis
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Summary:This essay deals with the extent to which a sociological inquiry of the comparative study of religion would be mutually beneficial through reciprocal illumination in a Buddhist-Christian context. Our critical comparative theology can be advanced in reference to Francis Clooney's comparative theology. We are concerned with problematizing the Buddhist text of Bodhicaryāvatāra (The Way of the Bodhisattva) in connection with the Buddhist principle of dependent origination. A critical Christian, constructive commentarial work should come into focus. Our interest is to examine critically the elective affinity of the bodhicitta idea by means of the Heart Sutra in its affirmative context as well as in the Imperial Japanese accommodation. This sociological inquiry, in a hermeneutical frame of reference, undertakes the comparative study of Buddhist compassion and the Christian symbol of theologia crucis for mutual illumination and common practice.
ISSN:2162-3937
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of ecumenical studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/ecu.2018.0012