This book brings together academic scholars from across various religious traditions to reflect on the beauty they find in traditions other than their own. They examine these aspects and reflect on how they inform and constructively assist with rethinking their own religious worldviews and practices. Each scholar investigates the various implications, questions, insights, and challenges that are generated in the process of doing so. Traditions discussed include ?satr? Heathenism, Buddhism, Catholicism, Evangelical Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, LDS Mormon Christianity, Lutheranism, Presbyterianism, Sikhism, Sufism, Western Buddhism, and Zen Mahyna Buddhism. Instead of focusing only or primarily on the theory and practice of interreligious dialogue, this book presents living examples of learning from other religious traditions, identities, and persons.
Foreword by Paul F. Knitter
1. Suppressing the Mosquitoes Coughs: An Introduction to Holy Envy
2. Nietzsche and the Jewish Jesus: A Reflection on Holy Envy
3. Ibn al-Arabi and the Virtues of Holy Envy in Islam
4. The Ritual of Everyday Life: Hindu Womens Rituals, Mujerista Theology, and the Catholic Theology of Gender
5. ?satr? and Hindu: From Prophecy to Dialogue
6. A Hindu Gift of Bestowal: Zankaras Concept of Grace in a Buddhist Context
7. Self-Reliant and Ecologically Aware: A Christian Appreciation of Buddhism
8. The Nembutsu of JMdo Shinshk Buddhism
9. Buddhists, Get your Prayer On: Reflections on Christian Spontaneous Prayer by a Buddhist Chaplain Chaplain
10. A Mormon Pilgrimage to Sikh Sacred Practice, Text, and Temple