In the Company of Friends

Carter, John Ross:
In the Company of Friends : Exploring Faith and Understanding with Buddhists and Christians / John Ross Carter. - Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2012. - xxxiii, 314 S.
ISBN 978-1-4384-4279-2
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-- Angekündigt für September 2012 --

Beschreibung
In this work of Buddhist-Christian reflection, John Ross Carter explores two basic aspects of human religiousness: faith and the activity of understanding. Carter’s perspective is unique, putting people and their experiences at the center of inquiry into religiousness. His model and method grows out of friendship, challenging the so-called objective approach to the study of religion that privileges patterns, concepts, and abstraction.
   Carter considers the traditions he knows best, the Protestant Christianity he was born into and the Theravāda and Jōdo Shinshū (Pure Land) traditions of the Sri Lankan and Japanese friends among whom he has lived, studied, and worked. His rich, wide-ranging accounts of religious experience include discussions of transcendence, reason, saṃvega, shinjin, the inconceivable, and whether lives oriented toward faith will survive in a global context with increased pressures for individualism and secularism. Ultimately, Carter proposes that the endeavor of interreligious understanding is itself a religious quest. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Foreword by Charles Hallisey. xi
Acknowledgments. xxiii
Introductory Note. xxvii
List of Abbreviations. xxxiii
PART I: THE QUEST FOR RELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING WITH THE THERVĀDA, JŌDO SHINSHŪ BUDDHISTS, AND CHRISTIANS
   1. On Understanding Religious Men and Women. 3
   2. Truth and History in Interreligious Understanding: A Preliminary Inquiry. 13
   3. Interreligious as a Religious Quest. 23
PART II: THE DYNAMICS OF FAITH AND BEYOND: PERSONALLY AND IN AN EVER-EXPANDING COMMUNITY
   4. Saṃvega and the Incipient Phase of Faith. 37
   5. Shinjin: More than "Faith"? 45
   6. Celebrating Our Faith. 63
   7. Colloquia in Faith. 73
PART III: CONVERGING AFFIRMATIONS FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
   8. "Relying Upon" or "Taking Refuge" as a Genuinely Human Activity. 85
   9. Love and Compassion as Given. 99
   10. Toward an Understanding of What Is Inconceivable. 109
   11. Arising of Salvific Realization as Buddhists and Christians Have Affirmed. 123
   12. Relationality in Religious Awareness. 135
PART IV: BUILDING FROM OUR PAST INTO OUR COMMON FUTURE
   13. From Controversy to Understanding: More than a Century of Progress. 163
   14. Religion and the Imperatives for Development. 175
   15. Getting First Things First: Some Reflections on a Response to Venerable Ananda Maitreya. 181
   16. Translational Theology: An Expression of the Faith of Christians in a Religiously Plural World. 187
   17. Buddhists and Baptists: In Conversation into Our Common Future. 199
PART V: THE CHALLENGE OF OUR FUTURE
   18. Will There Be Faith on Earth? 217
Notes. 225
A Bibliographic Note on the Context of Origin and Subsequent Versions of the Chapters in this Volume. 287
Bibliography. 291
Index. 305

Autor
John Ross Carter is Professor of the Study of the Great Religions of the World, Professor of Philosophy and Religion, and Director of Chapel House at Colgate University. He is the author of On Understanding Buddhists: Essays on the Theravāda Tradition in Sri Lanka, also published by SUNY Press, and the editor of On Living Life Well: Echoes of the Words of the Buddha from the Theravāda Tradition. Profile page.

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