Momo and Ibrahim - Thus-and-Otherwise': A Dialogical Approach to Religious Difference
Studies on religious difference usually take their point of departure in an intellectually biased view of interreligious encounters where difference is treated as a problem to be solved and the challenge of facing the religious other is an intellectual task of making him/her intelligible. The curren...
| Published in: | Journal of contemporary religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Carfax Publ.
[2009]
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Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2009, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 157-170 |
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| Summary: | Studies on religious difference usually take their point of departure in an intellectually biased view of interreligious encounters where difference is treated as a problem to be solved and the challenge of facing the religious other is an intellectual task of making him/her intelligible. The current article aims at providing an alternative to this logical approach to religious difference by outlining a dialogical one. The perspective is based on the works of several Jewish, Christian, and Muslim philosophers of religion who exchange the question of who has the truth for more ethically and practically oriented questions; for example, finding dignity in difference and seeing the religious other as a legitimate perspective on the world. The novel Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran is used as an empirical arena for addressing the main issue at stake: can a monotheist ever truly appreciate religious diversity? |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537900902816640 |