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REL 356 : World Religions

Theology and Dialogue

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Summary and Critique of John Hick, Karen Armstrong, Joseph Campbell, Paul Knitter or Paul Heim’s theory/theology of world religions.
Summarize and critique the “Common Word Between Us and You” dialogue. Include the Pope, Rowan Williams and the Yale response.
Max Weber or Emile Durkheim’s views on world religion
Multi-religious identity: Ann Holmes Redding and beyond
Compare/contrast some aspect of two religions in this course

Eg. fundamentalism in Judaism & Islam; “no-self” in Buddhism & Hinduism; Buddhist and Christian ideas of compassion, Christianity and Islam: the same God? Mission in Buddhism and Islam. Meditation in Hinduism and Judaism.

Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World by John Hick (Contribution by); Dennis L. Okholm (General Editor); Timothy R. Phillips (General Editor); W. Gary Phillips (Contribution by); R. Douglas Geivett (Contribution by); Stanley N. Gundry (Contribution by); Alister E. McGrath (Contribution by); Clark H. Pinnock (Contribution by)
Call Number: BT 759 .M67 1996
Publication Date: 1996-08-06
A History of God : the 4000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
Call Number: BT 98 .A65 1994
Publication Date: 1994-08-09
Transformations of Myth Through Time by Joseph Campbell
Call Number: BL 311 .C278 1990
Publication Date: 1990-02-28
Jesus and Buddha: Friends in Conversation by Paul F. Knitter; Roger Haight
Call Number: BR 128 .B8 K55 2015
Publication Date: 2015-10-01
Intercultural Theology. Volume 3, A Theology of Interreligious Relations by Henning Wrogemann (Author), Karl E Böhmer (Translator)
Call Number: BR 115 .C8 W7613 2016 v.3
Publication Date: 2019-02-19
A Common Word: Muslims and Christians on Loving God and Neighbor by Miroslav Volf (Editor); Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal (Editor); Melissa Yarington (Editor)
Call Number: BP 172 .C536 2010
Publication Date: 2009-12-30
Religion, Postcolonialism, and Globalization: A Sourcebook by Jennifer Reid
Call Number: BL 65 .G55 R425 2015
Publication Date: 2015-02-12
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim; Karen E. Fields (Translator)
Call Number: GN 470 .D813 1995
Publication Date: 1995-02-01
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community. by Paula Kepos (Editor); Derek Jacques (Editor); Janice Jorgensen (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010-01-08
Competing Fundamentalisms: Violent Extremism in Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism by Sathianathan Clarke
Call Number: BL 238 .C48 2017
Publication Date: 2017-03-29
Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue: Self and No-self by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad; Jonardon Ganeri; Irina Kuznetsova
Publication Date: 2012-07-17
Serene Compassion: a Christian Appreciation of Buddhist holiness by Denise Lardner Carmody; John Carmody
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Do We Worship the Same God?: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Dialogue by Miroslav Volf (Editor)
Call Number: BL 473 .D6 2012
Publication Date: 2012-11-09
Buddhist Missionaries in the Era of Globalization by Linda Learman (Editor)
Publication Date: 2004-11-30
Islamic Da`wah in the West: Muslim Missionary Activity and the Dynamics of Conversion to Islam by Larry Poston
ISBN: 9780195072273
Publication Date: 1992-06-04
Mysticisms East and West: Studies in Mystical Experience by Christopher H. Partridge (Editor); Theodore P. C. Gabriel (Editor)
Call Number: BL 625 .M97 2003
Publication Date: 2003-06-01
Church and Theology at the Borders by Gianluca Montaldi (Editor); Catherine Cornille (Editor); Daniel Franklin Pilario (Editor)
Call Number: BR 115 .E45 C487 2021
Publication Date: 2021-09-30

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