When faiths collide
By: Martin E. Marty.
Series: Blackwell manifestos
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Religious pluralism
Description: "Collisions of faiths are among the most threatening conflicts around the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century. In the face of these conflicts, this manifesto is a call to embrace religious pluralism. Tackling people's fears of religious pluralism, the author demonstrates that citizens, religions, and identities can in fact survive in radically pluralist settings. He argues that the first address to communities involved in collisions of faith should not be the conventional plea for tolerance, but a call that at least one party risk hospitality toward the other. The book deals with conflicts that affect or occur within those nations whose polities can be called republican, open, democratic, liberal, or free, particularly the UK, the US, and Western Europe."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: Religious strangers as menaces; title: "Belongers" versus strangers; title: When faith communities conflict; title: The pluralist polity; title: Living with the pluralist polity; title: The risk of hospitality; title: Theological integrity in responses.