1. Introduction: Exploring the Phenomenon of Interreligious
Ritual Participation, Marianne Moyaert
Part I: Philosophical, Theological and Phenomenological
Observations
2. On Doing What Others Do: Intentions and Intuitions in Multiple
Religious Practice, S. Mark Heim (Andover Newton Theological
School, USA)
3. Bowing before Buddha and Allah? Reflections on Crossing over
Ritual Boundaries, Maria Reis Habito (Elijah Interfaith Institute,
USA)
4. Enlightened Presuppositions of (Spiritually Motivated)
Cross-Ritual Participation, Walter Van Herck (University of
Antwerp, Belgium)
5. Religion Is as Religion Does: Interfaith Prayer as a Form of
Ritual Participation, Douglas Pratt (University of Birmingham,
UK)
6. Interreligious Ritual Participation: Insights from
Inter-Christian Ritual Participation, Martha Moore-Keish (Columbia
Theological Seminary, USA)
Part II: Muslim and Christian-Muslim Perspectives
7. Receiving the Stranger: A Muslim Theology of Shared Worship,
Timothy Winter (Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK)
8. Interreligious Prayer between Roman Catholic Christians and
Muslims, Gavin D’Costa (University of Bristol, UK)
9. Back-and-Forth Riting: The Dynamics of Christian-Muslim
Encounters in Shrine Rituals, Bagus Laksana (Sanata Dharma
University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Part III: Christian and East Asian Religious
Perspectives
10. Offering and Receiving Hospitality: The Meaning of Ritual
Participation in the Hindu Temple, Anantanand Rambachan (Saint Olaf
College, USA)
11. Towards an Open Eucharist, Richard Kearney (Boston College,
USA)
12. The Practice of Zazen as Ritual Performance, André van der
Braak (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
13. Theorizing Ritual for Interreligious Practice, James W. Farwell
(Virginia Theological Seminary, USA)
Part IV: Jewish and Jewish-Christian Perspectives
14. Transgressing and Setting Ritual Boundaries: A Puzzling
Paradox, Rachel Reedijk (VU University Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)
15. Mourning the Loss of My Daughter: The Failure of Inter-Faith
Bereavement Rituals, Anya Topolski (Centre for Ethics, Social and
Political Philosophy, Belgium)
16. Parameters of Hospitality for Interreligious Participation: A
Jewish Perspective, Ruth Langer (Boston College, USA)
17. Epilogue: Inter-riting as a Peculiar form of Love , Joris
Geldhof (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
Bibliography
Index
Innovative exploration of how interreligious ritual participation can stimulate dialogue and also reinforce the boundaries between religious communities, which sheds light on wider theoretical issues in the field.
Marianne Moyaert is Professor and Chair of Comparative
Theology and the Hermeneutics of Interreligious Dialogue at the VU
University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is also guest lecturer
at the KU Leuven, Belgium, teaching Jewish-Christian Relations.
Joris Geldhof is Professor of Liturgical Studies and
Sacramental Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious
Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium. He is the director of the Liturgical
Institute in Leuven, Belgium.
Ritual, Participation and Interreligious Dialogue is a superb
collection of essays addressing with boldness and acuity three
turns in modern theology and the study of religion: the turn to
religious practice in all its forms as a topic of study, attention
to what people actually do, as distinct from theologies and rules
about what ought to happen; sensitivity to the interplay of
practice and theology, each influencing the other; [and] a new
sensitivity to the phenomenon of interreligious participation in
religious practice … this timely and valuable volume helps us to
move forward in addressing a key phenomenon of this century.
*Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies*
In this important book, contributors from many parts of the world
and of different faiths share their experiences and
reflections.
*Faith and Freedom*
Moyaert and Geldhof are to be congratulated on bringing together a
timely and excellent volume on the topic of ritual participation.
Covering theoretical and theological issues as well as case studies
from a range of traditions and global perspectives it really will
be a landmark work in this area. Scholars and students in
interreligious studies and cognate fields will be using this volume
for its insights and building upon it for further research for many
years, if not decades, to come. The range of perspectives and the
depth of analysis and insight contained in its pages are what make
it stand out as a contribution towards what is still a young and
underexplored field, and will set a very high benchmark for anyone
following in their wake.
*Paul Hedges, Associate Professor of Interreligious Studies,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore*
A superb collection of critical reflections on the possibility and
limits of interreligious ritual participation. It provides an
excellent complement to the work that is ongoing in the area of
interreligious studies.
*Catherine Cornille, Professor of Comparative Theology, Boston
College, USA*
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