Loving Your Neighbour in an Age of Religious Conflict by James Walters

Loving Your Neighbour in an Age of Religious Conflict by James Walters

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This book offers a fresh perspective on religious difference by setting local challenges within the global picture, and exploring the meaning of religious resurgence for Western secularist ideas. Theory and practical engagement are combined in an imaginative Christian approach to responding to religious difference, without resorting to relativism.

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Loving Your Neighbour in an Age of Religious Conflict by James Walters

How to meaningfully engage with interfaith questions? Grounded in the author's experience of developing interfaith programmes at one of the world's leading universities, this book carves a fresh perspective on the challenges of religious difference by placing them within the broader currents of belief and scepticism in today's society. It sets out the local challenges presented by religious difference within the global picture, and explores the implications of global religious resurgence for Western secularist assumptions, both in our communities and in how we relate the rest of the world. Combining theory with examples of practical engagement, Walters offers an imaginative Christian theological approach to responding to religious difference without resorting to relativism. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of religion in the modern world.
At a time when some are fomenting divisions among religions, this wonderful book fosters understanding and compassionRead it and you will feel more hopeful about the world. -- Dame Minouche Shafik, Director, London School of Economics
This book on interfaith engagement, by a distinguished leader in the field, not only vividly tells the story of a remarkable initiative but also gives its secret: an approach to faith communities and religious issues that is well-informed, imaginative, wise in strategy and execution, and deeply relevant to our conflicted world. -- David F. Ford OBE, Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus, University of Cambridge
A thoughtful account of how religion can play a constructive role amid conflicts, and why people of faith should make this effort. -- Craig Calhoun, University Professor of Social Sciences, Arizona State University, USA
This short, incisive Christian reflection on interfaith dialogue and practice could well become a landmark in identifying and resourcing the next generation's agenda for such encounter... This invigorating work could energise much theology, interfaith encounter, and religious education, as well as the teaching of politics and social sciences. -- Dr Philip Lewis, Consultant on Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations to the Bishop of Leeds, and former lecturer in Peace Studies at Bradford University * Church Times *
TOM BROWN is Lecturer in the Department of Film, Theatre and Television at the University of Reading, UK. He is co-Editor, with James Bennett, of Film and Television After DVD (2008).

JAMES WALTERS is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Fantasy Film
(2010) and Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema (2008).

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ISBN 13 9781785925634
ISBN 10 1785925636
Title Loving Your Neighbour in an Age of Religious Conflict
Author James Walters
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Year published 2019-01-21
Number of pages 168
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.