Interreligious dialogue: Moving between compartmentalization and complexity

Interreligious dialogues as organized activities establish religious difference among its participants as a premise. This article discusses how various ways of signifying religious difference in interreligious dialogues can impact culturally by looking at the dynamics between the dialogues’ ‘insides...

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Main Author: Grung, Anne Hege 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2011]
In: Approaching religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 25-32
Further subjects:B Women
B Difference (Philosophy)
B Feminism
B Group Identity
B Norway
B Christianity and Islam
B Gender
B Islam - Relations
B Religions - Relations
B Religious Pluralism
B Dialogue (Theology)
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Summary:Interreligious dialogues as organized activities establish religious difference among its participants as a premise. This article discusses how various ways of signifying religious difference in interreligious dialogues can impact culturally by looking at the dynamics between the dialogues’ ‘insides’ and ‘outsides’, especially regarding the ways in which differences are conceptualized. The current criticism of interreligious dialogue and the current perspectives on the dialogues’ alleged effects on conceptualizing differences are examined in the examples presented in this article. Finally, two models of interreligious dialogue are suggested. First, a model where religious differences are apprehended as ‘constitutive’, and second, a model where religious differences are viewed as ‘challenge’. The first relates to a multicultural view of differences, and the second to a perspective of cultural complexity. Lastly, the two models are discussed in relation to the notion of strategic essentialism. Anne Hege Grung is a researcher at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo.
ISSN:1799-3121
Contains:Enthalten in: Approaching religion