Contested Spaces, Common Ground: Space and Power Structures in Contemporary Multireligious Societies

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface: Contested Spaces, Common Ground?

Word of Appreciation

List of Figures and Tables

Contributors to this Volume

Part 1: Approaching the Topos

1 In Search of Pastoral Power: Religious Confrontations with Thirdspace

2 Texts as Places of Sacred Meeting: Towards an Ethic for Comparative and Interreligious Readings and Transgressions

3 Interreligious Studies: A New Academic Discipline?

4 Religious Identities in Third Space: The Location of Comparative Theology

Part 2: Changing Spaces

5 The Maps and Tours of Theological Knowledge: Reading Melchior Cano’s De Locis Theologicis after the Spatial Turn

6 Sacred Time as Sacred Space: The Spaces of Memory and Anticipation in Christianity and Judaism

7 Metaphors We Dialogue By: Spatial Metaphors in the Common Word Dialogue Process

8 Hagia Sophia and the Third Space. An Enquiry into the Discursive Construction of Religious Sites

9 Reform in a Muslim Context: Contested Interpretations through Time and Space

10 The Location of Religion in Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball: Common Ground Prior to ‘Religious’ and ‘Secular’?

Part 3: Theological Transgression: Facing the Other in Migration and Gender

11 Christian Migrants and the Theology of Space and Place

12 Transreligious Critical Hermeneutics and Gender Justice: Contested Gendered Spaces

13 Claiming Space for Women: Women Reading Scripture in Critical Dialogue

Part 4: Islam in Spain

14 The Reconquista Reversed? Muslim Presence in Contemporary Spain

15 Blazing Light and Perfect Death: The Martyrs of Córdoba and the Growth of Polemical Holiness

16 From Acceptance to Religious Freedom: Considerations for Convivencia in Medieval Spain and Multireligious Coexistence Today

Part 5: The Basque Country: Sharing Space as a Minority Religion

17 Religious Minorities and Access to Public Space in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country and in Navarre: The Perspective of Religious Minorities

18 Contested Spaces and Religious Minorities: The Basque Experience and the Swiss Pyrenees

19 Scenarios of Interreligious Dialogue in the Basque Country

Part 6: Space and Eastern Religion

20 The Secular and the Sacred as Contested Spaces? A Cross-Cultural Hermeneutical Investigation into Western and Chinese Perspectives

21 Style for Better Understanding: A Buddhist-Christian Approach to ‘Truly Beautiful Spaces’

22 Time and History in Buddhist-Christian Relations

Part 7: Europe and the City

23 Europe as a Contested Space and European Cities as Shifting Symbols of Europe Throughout History: Historical Changes in the Spatial Orientation of Europe and Its Images of ‘Europeanness’

24 The Festival as Heterotopia in the City as Shared Religious Space

25 Between Fear, Freedom, and Control: Islam and the Construction of a Modern European Identity

Index of Names

Index of Subjects