Never wholly other: a Muslima theology of religious pluralism
How does the Qur'an depict the religious 'other'? Historically, this question has provoked extensive debate among Islamic scholars about the identity, nature, and status of the religious 'other.' Today, this debate assumes great importance because of the pervasive experience...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford New York
Oxford University Press
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Edition: | [First paperback edition] |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Koran
/ Koran exegesis
/ Muslim woman
/ Feminism
/ Religious pluralism
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| Further subjects: | B
Qurʼan
Feminist criticism
B Qurʼan Criticism, interpretation, etc B Religious Pluralism Islam B Qurʼan Hermeneutics |
| Summary: | How does the Qur'an depict the religious 'other'? Historically, this question has provoked extensive debate among Islamic scholars about the identity, nature, and status of the religious 'other.' Today, this debate assumes great importance because of the pervasive experience of religious plurality, which prompts inquiry into convergences and divergences in belief and practice as well as controversy over appropriate forms of interreligious interaction. The persistence of religious violence and oppression give rise to difficult questions about the relationship between the depiction of religious 'others, ' and intolerance and oppression The Qur'an and the religious "other" -- Theology of religions and Islamic contributions -- Muslima theology? -- Qur'an only? -- Overview of chapters -- Historical and contemporary approaches to religious "otherness" -- "Self" and "other" in historical Islamic discourse -- Rejecting the "other" and projecting the "self": polemical and apologetic trends -- Delineations of Qur'anic difference: exegetical and juridical trends -- Theocentric oneness and differentiated multiplicity: mystical and Sufi trends -- "Selves" and "others" -- Sameness and difference in contemporary Islamic approaches to religious diversity -- Prioritization of sameness -- Simultaneous affirmation of sameness and difference -- Prioritization of difference -- Proximity and otherness: the prevailintion of difference and beyond -- Shortcomings -- Conceptual and hermeneutical foundations of Muslima theology -- Contemporary Muslim women interpreters of the Qur'an: hermeneutical approach and conception of difference -- Qur'an-centered hermeneutical approach -- (Re)conception of difference -- Forays into religious difference -- Trajectories of analysis -- From sexual difference to religious difference: feminist theological approaches to religious difference -- Dialogue amidst diversity -- Theology of religions: feminist theological critiques & contributions -- Insights and extensions: towards a Muslima theology of religious pluralism -- From holistic interpretation to relational hermeneutics: Toshihiko Izutsu's semantic analysis of the Qur'an -- Relational meaning and the semantic Weltanschauung: Toshihiko Izutsu's method of analysis -- The Qur'anic Weltanschauung: conceptual opposition and a basic moral dichotomy -- Insights: towards a Muslima hermeneutic of relationality -- A Muslima theology of religious pluralism -- Lateral and hierarchical religious difference in the Qur'an -- Defining characteristics of hierarchical and lateral difference -- Hierarchical religious difference: the semantic field of taqwa -- Lateral religious difference: the semantic field of umma -- Umma and reification? -- Taqwa and denotative stability? -- Relational mapping of the semantic field of taqwa: concepts of hierarchical religious difference -- Recognition of and attitude towards God -- Response to God's guidance -- Type and nature of actions -- Observations and implications -- Never wholly "other": sameness, difference and relationality -- Creation and theological anthropology -- Creation and revelation -- Revelation and revelation -- Purpose of lateral religious difference -- The religious "other" and the Qur'an |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index |
| ISBN: | 0190458011 |