On Being Together: The Role of Lived Experience in Scriptural Reasoning
In the multicultural city of London, there is a widely acknowledged need for context-based, grassroots approaches to interfaith engagement that take local communities and practice into consideration. As a tool for interreligious dialogue that calls for members of different faith traditions to read a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Creighton University
2021
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The journal of religion & society
Year: 2021, Volume: 23 |
| Further subjects: | B
Dialogue
B Experience B Authority B Scriptural Reasoning B Embodiment |
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| Summary: | In the multicultural city of London, there is a widely acknowledged need for context-based, grassroots approaches to interfaith engagement that take local communities and practice into consideration. As a tool for interreligious dialogue that calls for members of different faith traditions to read and reflect on each other's scripture together, Scriptural Reasoning (SR) is very much a work in progress. While scripture and textual reasoning are at the heart of SR, I argue that the practice is most effective when discussions go beyond recitations of doctrine and tap into the lived experience of the participants, engaging them in both mind and body. This research draws on empirical data gathered from more than a dozen SR events in northwest, central, and east London. Looking at the practice of SR through the lens of lived experience highlights areas of tension and ambiguity that may be problematic and disruptive to the goals of SR but can, at the same time, hold creative potential that might ultimately enhance the SR experience. Issues of presence and embodiment, authenticity, and authority emerge as essential to the processes of world-making and boundary-crossing that represent both the risk and the promise of SR as lived experience. |
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| ISSN: | 1522-5658 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion & society
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10504/134619 |