Roots and Routes: Identity Construction and the Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue - Couverture souple

Reedijk, Rachel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9042028394 ISBN 13 : 9789042028395

Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2010

Synopsis

Dialogue participants demonstrate strong motivations for contributing to interreligious dialogue, based on a firm belief that encountering the other generates understanding – the contact thesis. Interreligious dialogue meets with both suspicion and cynicism: the former because it may result in loss of identity, and the latter because important issues may be ignored. The hitherto unanswered question is how Jewish-Christian-Muslim dialogue affects the identities of its participants.
In this study Rachel Reedijk analyses identity construction in an interreligious context against the backdrop of the dominant either/or discourse regarding religious diversity – and, for that matter, multiculturalism – in Western society. The conceptual framework of this study is constituted by the debate on essentialism and constructivism in the social sciences. She argues that, under the right circumstances, interreligious dialogue can move beyond polemics and apologetics and prepare the ground for understanding in the dual sense of prejudice reduction and interreligious hermeneutics.

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À propos de l?auteur

Rachel Reedijk is a cultural anthropologist who has authored several publications on racism and multiculturalism. She has been engaged in interreligious dialogue for a long time, as Secretary of the Dialogue Committee of the Liberal Jewish Congregation in the Netherlands as well as via other functions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9042028394
• ISBN 13: 9789042028395
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 386
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• Personne responsable: non disponible