Revolutionary Love as Shared Interreligious Comparative Category: Christian Engagements with Engaged Buddhism and Gandhian Nonviolence

Is revolutionary love a narrowly Christian category inappropriate as a theme for the American Academy of Religion? This paper argues no. Revolutionary love can be reconfigured as a vague interreligious category. This paper does that conceptual work and then proceeds to show that both Engaged Buddhis...

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Auteur principal: Thatamanil, John J. 1966- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: School [2018]
Dans: Toronto journal of theology
Année: 2017, Volume: 33, Numéro: 2, Pages: 165-180
RelBib Classification:BK Hindouisme
BL Bouddhisme
NCC Éthique sociale
NCD Éthique et politique
Sujets non-standardisés:B Comparative Theology
B comparative category
B revolutionary love
B Mohandas Gandhi
B Vagueness
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Résumé:Is revolutionary love a narrowly Christian category inappropriate as a theme for the American Academy of Religion? This paper argues no. Revolutionary love can be reconfigured as a vague interreligious category. This paper does that conceptual work and then proceeds to show that both Engaged Buddhists and Gandhian Hindus can recognize revolutionary love as a meaningful category for their communities and traditions. By demonstrating that revolutionary love is no merely Christian category, this paper suggests that the theme is not only appropriate for a body such as the AAR but can also help those groups within the AAR that are interested in normative conversation across religious boundaries to have those conversations.
ISSN:1918-6371
Contient:Enthalten in: Toronto journal of theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3138/tjt.2017-0169