Fostering Interreligious Encounters in Pluralist Societies Hospitality and Friendship /

• Main Author: Aihiokhai, SimonMary Asese A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue
• Subjects: Religion and sociology.; Ethnology-Africa.; Psychology and religion.; Social Aspects of Religion.; Sociology of Religion.; African Culture.; Religion and Psychology.

This book calls attention to ways of fostering dialogue among members of different religious traditions in an era of cultural and religious pluralism. To achieve this, the author analyzes the results of an ethnographic study of Ihievbe, a town in Midwestern Nigeria that is religiously pluralistic. E...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: A Short Secular and Religious History of Ihievbe Town
• Chapter 3: Factors Shaping Religious and Cultural Identities in the Ihievbe Community
• Chapter 4: Philosophical and Christological Arguments for Hospitality as a Dialogical Model
• Chapter 5: A Case for Hospitality in the Era of Religious Pluralism
• Chapter 6: The Philosophy of Friendship and Its Place in Constructing Interreligious Encounters
• Chapter 7: Expressions of Relationality and Alterity in Contemporary Pluralistic Cultures: A Case Study of Ihievbe Community
• Chapter 8: Ethnographic Findings Justifying the Relevance of Hospitality and Friendship as Tools for Interfaith Dialogue
• Chapter 9: Conclusion.