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.

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 PracticeElisabeth 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 Readings of 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