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Subject(s)

• Buddhism—Relations—Christianity [Browse]
• Christianity [Browse]
• Christianity and other religions—Buddhism [Browse]

Editor

• Anderson, Carol S. [Browse]
• Cattoi, Thomas, 1973- [Browse]

Series

Routledge handbooks in religion. [More in this series]

Summary note

Buddhist-Christian dialogue has a long and complex history that stretches back to the first centuries of the common era. Comprising 42 international and disciplinarily diverse chapters, this volume begins by setting up a framework for examining the nature of Buddhist-Christian interreligious dialogue, discussing how research in this area has been conducted in the past and considering future theoretical directions. Subsequent chapters delve into: important episodes in the history of Buddhist-Christian dialogue; contemporary conversations such as monastic interreligious dialogue, multiple religious identity, and dual religious practice; and Buddhist-Christian cooperation in social justice, social engagement, pastoral care, and interreligious education settings. The volume closes with a section devoted to comparative and constructive explorations of different speculative themes that range from the theological to the philosophical or experiential. This handbook explores how the study of Buddhist-Christian relations has been and ought to be done. The Routledge Handbook of Buddhist-Christian Studies is essential reading for researchers and students interested in Buddhist-Christian studies, Asian religions, and interreligious relationships. It will be of interest to those in fields such as anthropology, political science, theology, and history.

Notes

Includes index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• From Mission to Intersectionality and Beyond: Four Centuries of Buddhist-Christian Encounter
• Part I Theory and Method
• 1 The Variety of Methods in Buddhist-Christian Studies
• 2 Buddhism and Christianity Through Fractal Eyes
• 3 Buddhist-Christian Studies: a Proposal
• 4 The Craft of Interfaith Curiosity
• 5 Dialogue as Contemplative Practice: Buddhist Contributions to Interreligious Dialogue
• 6 Serving Two Masters?: Possibilities and Opportunities of Double Belonging
• 7 Meeting in Kenosis
• Part II Historical Encounters
• 8 Christianity in Early Tibet: Shreds of Evidence
• 9 Ippolito Desideri and Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
• 10 From Competition to Collaboration: Four Hundred Years of Buddhist-Catholic Engagement in Vietnam, 1620-2020
• 11 The Christian-Buddhist Encounter in Seventeenth-Century China
• 12 Buddhist-Christian Relations in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts: the Case Study of Sri Lanka
• 13 Spiritualities Separated at Birth or Accidentally Related?: The "Spiritual Senses" Traditions in Eastern Orthodox Hesychasm and Chan and Zen Buddhism
• 14 Poor, Yet Making Many Rich: Poverty as a Virtue in the Franciscan Christian and Theravada Buddhist Monastic Traditions
• Part III Contemporary Conversations
• 15 Monastic Interreligious Dialogue and Its Contribution to the Buddhist-Christian Encounter
• 16 A Comparison of Aquinas's and Dōgen's Views on Religious/Monastic Life
• 17 Millennium World: Thomas Merton, Buddhism, and Monastic Futurism
• 18 Constructive Catholic Theology in the Light of a Buddhist Imagination
• 19 Heaven and Sukhāvatī: Martin Luther and Shinran Shonin on Death and What Follows.
• 20 Thich Nhat Hanh's Buddhist-Christian Practical Theological Vision for Rebuilding Hope: Co-designing Practices for Communities that Teach and Embody Love
• 21 Buddhist-Christian Encounter and the Challenges of Multiple Religious Identity in Asia
• 22 Zen Buddhism and the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: Toward Mutual Learning and Enrichment
• Part IV Social Engagement, Pastoral Care, and the Challenge of Interreligious Education
• 23 Interreligious Solidarity for an Ecological Civilization: A Catholic and Humanistic Buddhist Conversation
• 24 Toward a Buddhist Theory of Social Justice: Thich Nhat Hanh, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Just Society
• 25 Buddhist-Christian Dialogue and Interreligious Learning
• 26 Herding Cows and Sheep: Giving Guidance in Buddhist and Christian Spiritual Formation
• 27 Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in Art
• 28 African American and Womanist-Buddhist Thought
• 29 A Brief Critical Appraisal of the Buddhist Modernism Paradigm
• Part V Constructive Reflections
• 30 A Tibetan Epektasis? Gregory of Nyssa's Understanding of Spiritual Progress and the Gelug pa Teaching on the Four Buddha Bodies
• 31 Aquinas and Dölpopa, Searching for Foundations
• 32 Eckhart and Dōgen on Forgetting the Self: A Contemplative Studies Perspective
• 33 Commensurable Saints? Buddhist-Christian Dialogue and Comparative Notions of Sanctity
• 34 The Composite Union of Natures: A Study Comparing the Structures of Hypostatic Union in Chalcedonian Christology and of Dharmākara Bodhisattva in Shin Buddhism
• 35 On Religious Engagement: Shinran and Heidegger's Paul
• 36 Creative Tensions in Buddhist and Christian Doctrine
• 37 The Paths to Purification: Buddhaghosa and John of the Cross
• 38 Irreversibility and Reciprocity in the Divine-Human Relationship.
• 39 "Being in Love": Religious Conversion in Bernard Lonergan and the Lotus Sutra
• 40 Buddhist-Christian Dialogue and the Kyoto School
• 41 The Deaths of Buddha and Jesus
• 42 Matchless on Their Way: Comparative Reflections on Christ and the Bodhisattva
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9781003043225
• 1003043224
• 9781000637281
• 100063728X
• 9781000637243
• 1000637247

OCLC

1343246884

Doi

10.4324/9781003043225

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