Post-Christian Interreligious Liberation Theology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Timani, Hussam S. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ashton, Loye Sekihata (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Liberation theology.; Ethnology-Middle East .; Ethnology-Asia.; Liberation Theology.; Middle Eastern Culture.; Asian Culture.

This book explores the ideals of liberation theology from the perspectives of major religious traditions, including Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and the neo-Vedanta and Advaita Hindu traditions. The goal of this volume is not to explain the Christian liberation theology tradition and then...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Confessing Tawhid and the Trinity: Toward a Christian-Muslim Liberation Theology
• 3. The Politics of Paradigms: Liberation and Difference in Islam and Christianity
• 4. Human Rights as 'Law of Nations' in Conversation with Contemporary Christian and Islamic Liberation Theologies
• 5. Fixing a God's Mess: Jewish Tikkun Olam and Interreligious Action
• 6. "Work Is Worship" Swami Vivekananda's Philosophy of Seva and its Contribution to the Gandhian Ethos
• 7. 'Looking Upon All Beings As One's Self': Insights from Advaita Hinduism for Racial Justice within Christian Theology and Liberative Praxis
• 8. Envisioning a Dharmic Society: Re-telling a traditional Buddhist Tale
• 9. Decolonizing and Indigenizing Liberation Theology
• 10. Mississippi's Voices Against Extremism Project: A Case Study in Inclusive Interfaith Leadership
• 11. Afterword. .