| Description |
1 online resource (x, 359 pages) : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles |
| Contents |
Harbingers -- Chicago -- London -- Rome |
| Summary |
The first intellectual history of interreligious dialogue, a relatively new and significant dimension of human religiosity. In recent decades, organizations committed to interreligious or interfaith dialogue have proliferated, both in the Western and non-Western worlds. Why? How so? And what exactly is interreligious dialogue? These are the touchstone questions of this book, the first major history of interreligious dialogue in the modern age. Thomas Albert Howard narrates and analyzes several key turning points in the history of interfaith dialogue before examining, in the conclusion, the contemporary landscape. While many have theorized about and practiced interreligious dialogue, few have attended carefully to its past, connecting its emergence and spread with broader developments in modern history. Interreligious dialogue--grasped in light of careful, critical attention to its past--holds promise for helping people of diverse faith backgrounds to foster cooperation and knowledge of one another while contributing insight into contemporary, global religious pluralism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-339) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed May 24, 2021) |
| Subject |
Religions -- Relations.
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Christianity and other religions.
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Religious pluralism -- History
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Interfaith relations
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Religions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300258561 |
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0300258569 |
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