Never Wholly Other by Jerusha Tanner Lamptey

Never Wholly Other by Jerusha Tanner Lamptey

How does the Qur'an depict the religious 'other'? Historically, this question has provoked extensive debate among Islamic scholars about the identity, nature, and status of the religious 'other.' Today, this debate assumes great importance because of the pervasive experience of religious plurality, which prompts inquiry into convergences and divergences in belief and practice as well as controversy over appropriate forms of interreligious interaction. The persistence of religious violence and oppression give rise to difficult questions about the relationship between the depiction of religious 'others,' and intolerance and oppression. Scholars have traditionally accounted for the coexistence of religious similarity and difference by resorting to models that depict religions as isolated entities or by models that arrange religions in a static, evaluative hierarchy. In response to the limitations of this discourse, Jerusha Tanner Lamptey constructs an alternative conceptual and hermeneutical approach that draws insights from the work of Muslim women interpreters of the Qur'an, feminist theology, and semantic analysis. She employs it to re-evaluate, re-interpret, and re-envision the Qur'anic discourse on religious difference. Through a close and detailed reading of the Qur'anic text, she distinguishes between two forms of religious difference--hierarchical and lateral. She goes on to explore the complex relationality that exists among Qur'anic concepts of hierarchical religious difference and articulates a new, integrated model of religious pluralism.

Jerusha Tanner Lamptey brilliantly incorporates important ideas from multiple disciplines in an attempt to challenge prevailing views on a critical topicIn responding to the question, 'How does the Qur'an depict the religious Other?,' Lamptey makes the case for nuance and openness. This is a paradigm-challenging book and one that constitutes a significant contribution to the study of Islam and, indeed, religion. * Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Adjunct Professor of Law, Michigan State University *

Jerusha Tanner Lamptey is a scholar of Islam, theology of religions and comparative theology. She is currently Associate Professor of Islam and Ministry at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She previously taught at Georgetown University, where she also received her Ph.D. in Theological and Religious Studies with a focus on Religious Pluralism in Catholic and Islamic Thought. She has published several articles and book chapters on religious pluralism, ecumenical relations, John Paul II, Vatican II, and African traditional religion.

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Titel	Never Wholly Other
Autor	Jerusha Tanner Lamptey
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Verlag	Oxford University Press Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2014-04-17
Seitenanzahl	352
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