Hosting the Stranger: Between ReligionsRichard Kearney, James Taylor Hosting the Stranger features ten powerful meditations on the theme of interreligious hospitality by eminent scholars and practitioners from the five different wisdom traditions: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. By gathering thinkers from different religious traditions around the same timely topic of what it means to 'host the stranger,' this text enacts the hospitality it investigates, facilitating a hopeful and constructive dialogue between the world's major religions. |
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Abraham accept according allowed asked attempt become begins body Buddha Buddhist called challenges chapter Christian comes command concern construct continues cultural Derrida dialogue divine dwelling encounter enter essay ethical experience fact faith give guest hand Hindu host human identity important Indian interpretation interreligious hospitality Islamic Jewish Jews Kearney kind land language Levinas Levinas’s limits live meaning Muslim narrative nature never notes offering one’s original particular perhaps person perspective philosophy possible practice prayer present question reading reality receiving refers reflection relation religion religious remain responsibility Ricoeur ritual sacred scholars scriptural sense sharing social space spiritual story stranger suggests sukkah teaching tent thought tradition translation true truth turn understanding University Press Upanishad virtue welcoming