Never Wholly Other
A Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 April 2014
- ISBN 9780199362783
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 163x236x35 mm
- Weight 649 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Drawing upon the work of Muslim women interpreters of the Qur'an, feminist theology and semantic analysis, Never Wholly Other offers a novel re-interpretation of the Qur'anic discourse on religious 'otherness.' Lamptey challenges notions of clear and static religious boundaries.
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How does the Qur'an depict the religious 'other'? Historically, this question has provoked extensive debate among Islamic scholars about the identity, nature, and status of the religious 'other.' Today, this debate assumes great importance because of the pervasive experience of religious plurality, which prompts inquiry into convergences and divergences in belief and practice as well as controversy over appropriate forms of interreligious interaction. The persistence of religious violence and oppression give rise to difficult questions about the relationship between the depiction of religious 'others,' and intolerance and oppression.
Scholars have traditionally accounted for the coexistence of religious similarity and difference by resorting to models that depict religions as isolated entities or by models that arrange religions in a static, evaluative hierarchy. In response to the limitations of this discourse, Jerusha Tanner Lamptey constructs an alternative conceptual and hermeneutical approach that draws insights from the work of Muslim women interpreters of the Qur'an, feminist theology, and semantic analysis. She employs it to re-evaluate, re-interpret, and re-envision the Qur'anic discourse on religious difference. Through a close and detailed reading of the Qur'anic text, she distinguishes between two forms of religious difference--hierarchical and lateral. She goes on to explore the complex relationality that exists among Qur'anic concepts of hierarchical religious difference and articulates a new, integrated model of religious pluralism.
Jerusha Tanner Lamptey brilliantly incorporates important ideas from multiple disciplines in an attempt to challenge prevailing views on a critical topic. In responding to the question, 'How does the Qur'an depict the religious Other?,' Lamptey makes the case for nuance and openness. This is a paradigm-challenging book and one that constitutes a significant contribution to the study of Islam and, indeed, religion.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration, Translation and Gendered Language
Introduction
Part One: Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Religious 'Otherness'
Chapter 1: 'Self' and 'Other' in Historical Islamic Discourse
Chapter 2: Sameness and Difference in Contemporary Islamic Approaches to Religious Diversity
Part Two: Conceptual and Hermeneutical Foundations of Muslima Theology
Chapter 3: Contemporary Muslim Women Interpreters of the Qur'an: Hermeneutical Approach and Conception of Difference
Chapter 4: From Sexual Difference to Religious Difference: Feminist Theological Approaches to Religious Difference
Chapter 5: From Holistic Interpretation to Relational Hermeneutics: Toshihiko Izutsu's Semantic Analysis of the Qur'an
Part Three: A Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism
Chapter 6: Lateral and Hierarchical Religious Difference in the Qur'an
Chapter 7: Relational Mapping of the Semantic Field of Taqwa: Concepts of Hierarchical Religious Difference
Chapter 8: Never Wholly 'Other': Sameness, Difference and Relationality
Glossary of Arabic Terms
Bibliography
Index
Index of Qur'anic Verses
