Hosting the Stranger Between Religions [Hardcover]

Hosting the Strangerfeatures 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.

INTRODUCTIONPART ONE: HOSTING THE STRANGERChapter 1: Hospitality in Translation: Hosting the Stranger as a Work of MourningJames Taylor Chapter 2: Western Hospitality to Eastern ThoughtJoseph O'Leary Chapter 3: Interreligious Hospitality and its Limits Catherine CornilleChapter 4: Departures: Hospitality as Mediation Kalpana SeshadriChapter 5: Misgivings About Misgivings and the Nature of a Home: Some Reflections on the Role of Jewish Tradition in Derrida's Account of Hospitality Jacob MeskinPART TWO: INTERRELIGIOUS HOSPITALITYI. Jewish PerspectivesChapter 6: The Open Tent: Angels and StrangersEdward KaplanChapter 7: Sukkot: Levinas and the Festival of the CabinsHugh Cummins II. Christian PerspectivesChapter 8: Hospitable by Calling, Inhospitable by NaturePatrick HedermanChapter 9: Biblical, Ethical and Hermeneutical Reflections On Narrative Hospitality Marianne MoyaertIII. Buddhist PerspectivesChapter 10: The Awakening of HospitalityJohn Makransky Chapter 11: Buddhism and Hospitality: Expecting the Unexpected and Acting Virtuously Andy RotmanIV. Islamic PerspectivesChapter 12: The Dead and the City: The Limits of Hospitality in the Early Modern Levant Dana SajdiChapter 13: Some Reflections on Hospitality in IslamJoseph LumbardV. Hindu PerspectivesChapter 14: Food, the Guest, and the Taittiriya Upanisad: Hospitality in the HinduTraditionsFrancis ClooneyChapter 15: God as Guest: Hospitality in Hindu CultureSwami TyaganandaNOTESCONTRIBUTORS

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