Interfaith Dialogue and Mystical Consciousness
This article focuses on the meeting of faith traditions—interfaith dialogue—from the perspective of mystical consciousness. In doing so, it aims to understand the dynamics and potentialities of interfaith mysticism. The contribution of this article to religious studies, in combination with theologic...
| Published in: | Harvard theological review |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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Harvard theological review
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christianity
/ Hinduism
/ Interfaith dialogue
/ Mysticism
/ Consciousness
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AX Inter-religious relations BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism CB Christian life; spirituality CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations |
| Further subjects: | B
Hindu-Christian dialogue
B Mysticism B Interreligious Studies B Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi B Hinduism B Yoga B Interfaith Relations B Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghose) |
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| Summary: | This article focuses on the meeting of faith traditions—interfaith dialogue—from the perspective of mystical consciousness. In doing so, it aims to understand the dynamics and potentialities of interfaith mysticism. The contribution of this article to religious studies, in combination with theological inquiry, is threefold: first, it illuminates how the Trinity is directly experienced in interfaith contexts; second, it provides an interfaith framework that accounts for the possibilities, complexity, and challenges of interfaith encounters; third, it shows how Gavin Flood’s three orders of discourse—traditions’ experience and texts, interpretation within traditions, and academic inquiry—can be applied to the study of interfaith mysticism, employing a phenomenological emphasis on hermeneutics. The inquiry is located within the context of representatives of Hindu mystical consciousness (Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo) and the Christian interfaith tradition (Henri Le Saux, Bede Griffiths, David Steindl-Rast), in conversation with Raimon Panikkar’s and Francis X. Clooney’s approaches to interreligious studies. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816022000335 |