Reconciling Islam, Christianity and Judaism Islam’s Special Role in Restoring Convivencia /

• Main Authors: Lovat, Terence (Author), Crotty, Robert (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Religion.; Church and education.; Religion and sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology of Religion.; Religion and Education.; Religious Studies, general.

At the present time, when so-called Islamic radicalism, terrorism and Jihadism occupy major media space, with Islam often depicted as the main culprit, the book attempts a tour de force. It proposes that Islam is as much victim as culprit in the history that has led to the current hostility. This is...

Table of Contents:

• Section A: The Abrahamic Religions (Islam, Christianity and Judaism) and a Theory of Religion
• Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Abrahamic Religions
• Chapter 2: A Theory of Religion and Being Religious
• Section B: The Sacred Story(ies) of the Abrahamic Religions from Three Vantage Points.- Chapter 3: The Story from the Vantage Point of Judaism
• Chapter 4: The Story from the Vantage Point of Christianity
• Chapter 5: The Story from the Vantage Point of Islam
• Section C: Islamic and Islamist Scholarship and the Abrahamic (Ibrahimic) Tradition
• Chapter 6: The Heart of the Ibrahimic Story in Islam
• Chapter 7: The Increasing Cogency of Islamism
• Section D: Exploring Convivencia and the Potential for Islamic Leadership
• Chapter 8: The Historical Exemplar: La Convivencia
• Chapter 9: Re-constructing Convivencia in the Twenty-first Century
• Conclusion.