Interreligious Relations and the Negotiation of Ritual Boundaries

This volume explores the ways in which interreligious encounters happen ritually . Drawing upon theology, philosophy, political sciences, anthropology, sociology, and liturgical studies, the contributors examine different concrete cases of interrituality. After an introductory chapter explaining the phenomenon of interrituality, readers learn about government-sponsored public events in Spain, the ritual life of mixed families in China and the UK. We meet Buddhist and Christian monks in Kentucky and are introduced to rituals of protest in Jerusalem. Other chapters take us to shared pilgrimage sites in the Mediterranean and explore the ritual challenges of Israeli tour guides of Christian pilgrims. The authors challenges readers to consider scriptural reasoning as a liturgical practice and to inquire into the (in)felicitous nature of rituals of reconciliation. This volume demonstrates the importance of understanding the many contexts in which interrituality happens and shows how ritual boundaries are perpetually under negotiation.

Draws attention to the ritual dimension of interreligious encounters Brings together leading scholars with interdisciplinary backgrounds Written to fill a cap in interreligious studies

Auteur
Marianne Moyaert is Chair of Comparative Theology and Hermeneutics of Interreligious Dialogue at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she coordinates the Master's program Building Interreligious Relations. Moyaert is the author of In Response to the Religious Other: Ricoeur and the Fragility of Interreligious Encounters (2014) and coeditor, with Joris Geldhof, of Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue: Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations (2015).

Contenu
Marianne Moyaert: Broadening the Scope of Interreligious Studies: Interrituality.- Mar Griera: Interreligious Events in the Public Space: Performing Togetherness in Times of Religious Pluralism.- Marianne Moyaert: Response to Mar Griera.- Nina Fischer: Religious Ritual, Injustice, and Resistance: Praying Politically in Israel/Palestine.- Mar Grier: Response to Nina Fischer.- Marianne Moyaert: Scriptural Reasoning as a Ritualized Practice.- Elisabeth Arweck: Response to Marianne Moyaert.- Jackie Feldman: Christian Holy Land Pilgrimage as an Interreligious Encounter.- Nina Fischer: Response to Jackie Feldman.- Dionigi Albera: Ritual Mixing and Interrituality at Marian Shrines.- Jackie Feldman: Response to Dionigi Albera.- James W. Farwell: Taking the Liturgical Turn in Comparative Theology: Monastic Interreligious Dialogue as a Supporting Case.- Joris GeldhofL Response to James W. Farewell.- Alana Vincent: Rituals of Reconciliation? How Consideration of Ritual can Inform Readingsof Catholic-Jewish Dialogue after the Holocaust.- Mark Godin: Response to Alana Vincent.- Mark Godin: Reversals and Reconstructions: The Place of Inter-religious Rituals of Reconciliation in Forming a new Relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians.- Alana Vincent: Response to Mark Godin .- Bram Colijn: Interrituality in Contemporary China as a Field of Tension Between Abstention and Polytropy.- James Farwell: Response to Bram Colijin.- Elisabeth Arweck: The Role of Ritual in Mixed-Faith Families.- Bram Colijn: Response to Elisabeth Arweck.- Kevin Schilbrack: A Philosophical Analysis of Interrituality.