A Hindu-Jewish Conversation
Root Traditions in Dialogue
Series: Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 15 February 2024
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781793646545
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages346 pages
- Size 237.74x160.78x25.146 mm
- Weight 635 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 BW Illustrations 529
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Long description:
"A Hindu-Jewish Conversation: Root Traditions in Dialogue is a historical, theological, and phenomenological engagement of the Hindu and Jewish traditions, two ""root"" traditions that give rise to other-in some ways very different-types of religious traditions. Rachel Fell McDermott and Daniel F. Polish explore conceptions of the divine, which are frequently cited as the most serious obstacle to a serious theological engagement between the two traditions; differences in attitude towards heroes, saints, and holy people; the religious resources and challenges experienced by Hindu and Jewish women; what can be learned about Hindu and Jewish spiritual outpouring by comparing Hindu devotional poetry and the Book of Psalms; the ways in which the two traditions address the fraught question of theodicy, or why bad things happen to good people; the status of ""the land"" and nationalist claims on it; and the uncomfortable question of caste and its possible social parallels in the Jewish tradition. The authors weave considerations of these topics into an ongoing conversation that offers students of both traditions new ways of thinking both about their intersections and about the history of religion in general. A coda explores these same issues by recounting an actual series of discussions convened between Hindu and Jewish practitioners."
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: Why Compare Jewish and Hindu Traditions?
Chapter 1: Image Worship: Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and Theological Debate
Chapter 2: Patterns of Perfection? Heroes and Holy People
Chapter 3: Jewish Woman, Hindu Woman
Chapter 4: Intimate Relations: Psalms and Bhakti Poetry
Chapter 5: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Us? Comparative Reflections on Theodicy
Chapter 6: The Land in Jewish and Hindu Traditions
Chapter 7: The Uncomfortable Question of Caste (and Possible Jewish Analogues)
Conclusion: Testing Theory in Lived Encounter
