Research Catalog

Title

Hosting the stranger : between religions / edited by Richard Kearney and James Taylor.

Publication

New York : Continuum, ©2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kearney, Richard
• Taylor, James, 1975-

Description

x, 172 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Hosting the Stranger features ten powerful meditations on the theme of interreligious hospitality by eminent scholars and practicioners 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."--Back cover.

Subject

• Helping behavior > Religious aspects
• Hospitality > Religious aspects
• Christianity and other religions
• Religions
• Comportement d'aide > Aspect religieux
• Hospitalité > Aspect religieux
• Christianisme > Relations
• Religions
• religions (belief systems, cultures)
• Helping behavior > Religious aspects
• Der Andere
• Fremdheit
• Gastfreundschaft
• Interreligiöse Beziehung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hospitality in Translation: Hosting the Stranger as a Work of Mourning / James Taylor -- Western Hospitality to Eastern Thought / Joseph O'Leary -- Interreligious Hospitality and its Limits / Catherine Cornille -- Departures: Hospitality as Mediation / Kalpana Seshadri -- Misgivings About Misgivings and the Nature of a Home: Some Reflections on the Role of Jewish Tradition in Derrida's Account of Hospitality / Jacob Meskin -- The Open Tent: Angels and Strangers / Edward Kaplan -- Sukkot: Levinas and the Festival of the Cabins / Hugh Cummins -- Hospitable by Calling, Inhospitable by Nature / Patrick Hederman -- Biblical, Ethical and Hermeneutical Reflections On Narrative Hospitality / Marianne Moyaert -- The Awakening of Hospitality / John Makransky -- Buddhism and Hospitality: Expecting the Unexpected and Acting Virtuously / Andy Rotman -- The Dead and the City: The Limits of Hospitality in the Early Modern / Levant Dana Sajdi -- Some Reflections on Hospitality in Islam / Joseph Lumbard -- Food, the Guest, and the Taittiriya Upanisad: Hospitality in the Hindu Traditions / Francis Clooney -- God as Guest: Hospitality in Hindu Culture / Swami Tyagananda.

ISBN

• 9780826427373
• 9781441158086
• 1441158081
• 0826427375

LCCN

2011282347

OCLC

• 648934444
• SCSB-12444117

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library