"`After Terror' offers a sustained reflection by some of the world's most celebrated thinkers on the most pressing question of our time: how can we find ways to defuse the ticking bombs of terrorism and excessive interventions against it ? It offers an antidote to the fatalistic global holy war perspective that afflicts much contemporary thought, focusing instead on the principles, issues, and acts needed to shift course from alienation and conflict to a path of sanity and goodwill among cultures and civilizations. The central aim of the book is to advance contemporary thinking on the causes and implications of 9/11 and thus provide the essential elements of a blueprint for humanity. It features 28 original essays by some of the world's leading public figures, scholars, and religious leaders". -- back cover.
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Contributor Biographies in Brief -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Toward a More Civil Twenty-first Century / Akbar Ahmed and Brian Forst -- Part II: The Nature and Sources of the Problem -- 2. The Simple Power of Weakness, the Complex Vulnerability of the Poor / Zbigniew Brzezinski -- 3. Dialogue and the Echo Boom of Terror : Religious Women's Voices after 9/11 -- Diana L. Eck -- 4. Closing Chapters of Enmity / Rajmohan Gandhi -- 5. Benjamin Franklin's Gift of Tolerance / Walter Isaacson -- 6. God's Word and World Politics / Desmond Tutu -- Part III: Pathways to Dialogue and Understanding -- 7. The Role of the Media in Promoting Tolerance / Shashi Tharoor -- 8. Civilization, Human Rights, and Collective Responsibility / Sergio Vieira de Mello -- 9. Endless Enemies or Human Security / Jody Williams -- 10. Dialogue among Civilizations and Cultures / Seyed Mohammed Khatami --11. Transnational Moral Dialogues / Amitai Etzioni -- 12. In Other People's Shoes / Marilyn Strathern -- 13. A Universal Language, withour Boundary or Prejudice / Ravi Shankar -- 14. Dialogue among Civilizations / Kofi Annan -- 15. The Productive Airing of Grievances / George Carey -- 16. All of Man's Troubles / Edward O. Wilson -- 17. Turning Enemies into Friends / Jonathan Sacks -- 18. Security through Dialogue / Noor of Jordan -- 19. The Power of Dialogue: Redefining "Us" / Tamara Sonn -- 20. On Clash, Morality, Renaissance, and Dialogue / Judea Pearl -- 21. The Just War Tradition and Cultural Dialogue / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- 22. Celebrating Differences in Our Melting Pot Planet / El Hassan bin Talal -- Part IV: From Concern to Action -- 23. Clash or Dialogue of Cultures ? / Bernard Lewis -- 24. The Fellowship of Dialogue / James D. Wolfensohn --25. Hard Power and Soft Power / Joseph S. Nye, Jr. -- 26. Global Governance in an Interdependent World / Benjamin R. Barber -- 27. Getting to Peace: Awakening the Third Side / William L. Ury -- 28. Risking Hospitality / Martin Marty -- Index.
Colophon: Typeset in 11 on 13 pt Berling by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong. Printed and bound in the United States by the Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group.
Anglican contributors are Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Lord George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Primates of the Anglican Communion state that the introduction of Sharia Law (one of the more rigid Islamic legal codes) violates the human rights of non-Muslims.
"First edition published in 1956 ... Reprinted as a Galaxy Book, with corrections ... 1964. Second edition, revised and enlarged ... 1985". -- verso of t.-p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bibliography: p. 341-353.
"Certainly the Adhan, or summons to prayer from the minaret, has persisted steadily every dawning and fading day of all the passing years. As then, so now, it is 'an imperative invitation' to Muslim faith and practice, confronting Muslims with their own vocation and alerting the attentive outsider to what shapes and makes Islam. The call of the minaret is the epitome of Muslim belief and action. To seek in it the clue to Islam, and from that clue to learn the form and dimension of a Christian relationship to what it tells, is the purpose of this book. These chapters are one man's effort at an interpretive study of what the muezzin says. It is inspired by the obligations belonging to Christian conviction". -- Preface, p. vi-vii.
Contents: Preface / Kenneth Cragg Part One: Islam at the New Century -- Change and Continuity -- Part Two: Minaret and Muslim -- God: There is None Save He -- Muhammad, the Apostle of God -- Prayer and Religious Life in Islam -- The Islamic Order for Human Society -- Part Three: Minaret and Christian -- Mosque and Meeting -- The Call to Understanding -- The Call to Participation -- The Call to Retrieval -- The Call to Interpretation -- The Call to Hope and Faith -- Notes -- Book List -- The Qur'an: Quotations and References -- Index.
Author is Assistant Anglican Bishop in the Jerusalem Archbishopric based in Cairo, Egypt.
This book "is packed with case studies, examples of best practice, and practical advice based on the author's own unique experience as teacher and minister in the UK and overseas. It covers mission and inter-faith dialogue, theology and life, prayer and worship, health, education and community issues, and pastoral issues such as inter-faith weddings and conversion. It also includes useful lists of organisations and networks, web-site links, books and multi-media resources". -- back cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Preface dated Easter 2005 -- Introduction: Why Should Christians Bother about Other Faiths ? -- Dialogue: Experiences, Reflections and Structures -- Presence and Engagement: Structures for Christian Response -- The Most Frequently Asked Theological Questions -- Interfaith Prayer and Worship ? -- Pastoral Issues -- Community and Social Issues -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography and Resources -- Selected Organisations -- Index.
Author is priest of the Church of England, the Bishop of Leicester's Adviser in Inter-Faith Relations, Canon Theologian and Director of the St. Philip's Centre for Theology and Ministry in a Multi-Faith Society.
"The Moorhouse Lectures, Melbourne, 1960". -- t.-p.
"First published 1961. Reprinted 1962". -- verso of t.-p.
"CDB/XP2907".
Includes bibliography (p. 233-236) and index.
"Bishop Neill has wisely refrained from producing 'yet another introduction to the non-Christian religions'. Rather this is 'an attempt to understand them in their contemporary crises, and to make an assessment of them from a Christian standpoint'. The method is that of dialogue, and the aim is not to delineate other faiths from without, but to enter 'into the heart and spirit of another religion', yet without disloyalty to one's own, seeking what is positive in them, and the questions they may rightly ask of Christianity, as well as the pertinent questions about God and man which Christians may put to them. Chapters are devoted, not only to Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, but also to the faith of contemporary primitive peoples, and to two modern Western 'gospels', Marxist Communism and Existentialism". -- front dust jacket blurb.
Contents: Preface dated Geneva, September 1960 / S.N. -- Acknowledgements -- The Problem Set -- Islam in Crisis -- Renascent Hinduism -- The Doctrine of the Lotus -- The Primitive World -- The Gospel of Marx and the Gospel of Christ -- The Existential Pilgrimage -- Christendom -- Bibliography -- Index.
Colophon: Printed in Great Britain at the University Press Aberdeen.
"First published 1968. Copyright 1968 Kenneth Cragg". -- verso of t.-p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The chapters of this book present, after further reflection, the substance of eight Lectures delivered, by invitation of the Faculty of Divinity, in the University of Cambridge, during the eight weeks of the Michaelmas Term of 1966. .... How might a will to genuine and reciprocal diversity within the one faith of Christ undo this heavy western bias of its modern history ? How might 'Englishness' be transcended, as 'Jewishness' first had been, in the true fullness and freedom of the Holy Spirit. This is the 'perspective' meant in the title. What follows here is no more that an essay. It aims only to illustrate what an answer might involve in three areas where it must be given, namely in relation to the Jewish, the Islamic and the Africa, with some reference also to the secular temper." -- Preface.
Contents: Dedication -- Preface dated Canterbury 1967 / Kenneth Cragg -- Acknowledgements -- Nineteenth-Century Mission in Twentieth Century Perspective -- New Testament Universality: Precedents and Open Questions -- A Theology of Religious Pluralism -- Christian Church and Jewish Destiny -- Christian Creed and Islamic Worship -- Christian Symbolism and the African Mind -- Christian Relationships in the Secularizing World -- Identity and Diversity: The Contemporary Church -- Index.
Colophon: Printed in Great Britain by The Camelot Press Ltd., London and Southampton.
Author is a Church of England priest and retired bishop.
"Edited by Roland E. Miller and Hance A.O. Mwakabana".
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Foreword / Ishmael Noko -- Preface / Roland E. Miller and Hance A.O. Mwakabana -- Introduction / Roland E. Miller -- Part I: Theology of Religions and Christian-Muslim Dialogue -- Prolegomena for Theological Perspectives on Islam / Roland E. Miller -- Theology of Religions: A Review of Developments, Trends, and Issues / Willem A. Bijlefeld -- Part II: Christian-Muslim Dialogue: Theological Issues -- Between Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy: Theological Problems between Christians and Muslims / Olaf Schumann -- Religion and Politics in Islam: Challenge to Muslim-Christian Relations / Charles Amjad-Ali -- Faith and Science / Jan A. Henningsson -- The Righteous Society: Christian and Muslim Perspectives / Olaf Schumann -- Part III: Christian-Muslim Dialogue: Practical Issues -- The Role and Abuse of Religion in Situations of Conflict / Sigvard von Sicard -- The Indian Muslim Response to Religious Pluralism / Roland E. Miller -- Contemporary Understandings of Human Rights in Islam / Jan A. Henningsson -- Part IV: The Church and Christian-Muslim Dialogue -- Christian-Muslim Relations in Northern Nigeria / David L. Windibiziri -- Political and Social Conditions: Challenge to Christian Faith, Praxis and Mission in the Context of Pakistan / Charles Amjad-Ali -- Resources for Considering Issues in Christian-Muslim Relations / Sigvard von Sicard -- Part V: Summary Report by the Islam Group -- Summary Report.
"Edited by Roland E. Miller and Hance A.O. Mwakabana".
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Foreword / Ishmael Noko -- Preface / Roland E. Miller and Hance A.O. Mwakabana -- Introduction / Roland E. Miller -- Part I: Theology of Religions and Christian-Muslim Dialogue -- Prolegomena for Theological Perspectives on Islam / Roland E. Miller -- Theology of Religions: A Review of Developments, Trends, and Issues / Willem A. Bijlefeld -- Part II: Christian-Muslim Dialogue: Theological Issues -- Between Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy: Theological Problems between Christians and Muslims / Olaf Schumann -- Religion and Politics in Islam: Challenge to Muslim-Christian Relations / Charles Amjad-Ali -- Faith and Science / Jan A. Henningsson -- The Righteous Society: Christian and Muslim Perspectives / Olaf Schumann -- Part III: Christian-Muslim Dialogue: Practical Issues -- The Role and Abuse of Religion in Situations of Conflict / Sigvard von Sicard -- The Indian Muslim Response to Religious Pluralism / Roland E. Miller -- Contemporary Understandings of Human Rights in Islam / Jan A. Henningsson -- Part IV: The Church and Christian-Muslim Dialogue -- Christian-Muslim Relations in Northern Nigeria / David L. Windibiziri -- Political and Social Conditions: Challenge to Christian Faith, Praxis and Mission in the Context of Pakistan / Charles Amjad-Ali -- Resources for Considering Issues in Christian-Muslim Relations / Sigvard von Sicard -- Part V: Summary Report by the Islam Group -- Summary Report.
Contents: Preface / Dick Mulder -- Introduction to Mombasa Conference / John B. Taylor -- Bible Studies : God and Man / Kenneth Cragg -- My Neighbour Muslims in the Tana River District, Kenya / Johnson E. Komora -- Christians and Muslims as Neighbours in the Philippines / Bienvenido Tudtud -- Christians in Bangladesh / Prakriti Nath -- Personal Experiences of Christian Ministry in the Middle East / Fuad Accad -- Muslims in Britain and Christians' Response / David Kerr -- The Relation of the Catholic Church to Islam Today / Medard Kayitakibga -- The Churches' Presence and Witness in the Varied Context of the Current `Revival' of Islam / T.B. Simatupang --For a Christian Witness Among Those Who Intend to Remain Non-Christian / Henri Teissier -- Mission and the Muslim World : Some Theological Reflections / Byron L. Haines -- Conference Statement and Central Committee Recommendations to Churches.
Appendices include: A: List of Study Centres -- B: Report of Planning Meeting.