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Roots and Routes.
Identity Construction and the Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue.
Reedijk, Rachel
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2010, XV, 359 pp.
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Currents of Encounter - Studies on the Contact between Christianity and Other Religions, Beliefs, and Cultures 37
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Dialogue Organisations and Dialogue Documents
Authentic Dialogue: A Contradiction in Terms?
Truth-Claiming and Truth-Finding
Transgressing and Setting Ritual Boundaries
Understanding and Being Understood
Dialogues about Dialogue: the Meta-level
A Both/And Theory of Jewish Christian Muslim Dialogue
Literature Consulted
Index of Hebrew and Arabic terms
Index of Names
Appendix I
Appendix II
Tables
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.
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