Revolutionary Love as Shared Interreligious Comparative Category: Christian Engagements with Engaged Buddhism and Gandhian Nonviolence
Is revolutionary love a narrowly Christian category inappropriate as a theme for the American Academy of Religion? This paper argues no. Revolutionary love can be reconfigured as a vague interreligious category. This paper does that conceptual work and then proceeds to show that both Engaged Buddhis...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2018]
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Toronto journal of theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 165-180 |
| IxTheo Classification: | BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism BL Buddhism NCC Social ethics NCD Political ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Comparative Theology
B comparative category B revolutionary love B Mohandas Gandhi B Vagueness |
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Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | Is revolutionary love a narrowly Christian category inappropriate as a theme for the American Academy of Religion? This paper argues no. Revolutionary love can be reconfigured as a vague interreligious category. This paper does that conceptual work and then proceeds to show that both Engaged Buddhists and Gandhian Hindus can recognize revolutionary love as a meaningful category for their communities and traditions. By demonstrating that revolutionary love is no merely Christian category, this paper suggests that the theme is not only appropriate for a body such as the AAR but can also help those groups within the AAR that are interested in normative conversation across religious boundaries to have those conversations. |
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| ISSN: | 1918-6371 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Toronto journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/tjt.2017-0169 |
