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Hosting the Stranger features ten powerful meditations on the theme of interreligious hospitality by eminent scholars and practitioners from the five different wisdom traditions: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. By gathering thinkers from different religious traditions around the same timely topic of what it means to 'host the stranger, ' this text enacts the hospitality it investigates, facilitating a hopeful and constructive dialogue between the world's major religions
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INTRODUCTION PART ONE: HOSTING THE STRANGERChapter 1: Hospitality in Translation: Hosting the Stranger as a Work of MourningJames Taylor Chapter 2: Western Hospitality to Eastern ThoughtJoseph O'Leary Chapter 3: Interreligious Hospitality and its Limits Catherine CornilleChapter 4: Departures: Hospitality as Mediation Kalpana SeshadriChapter 5: Misgivings About Misgivings and the Nature of a Home: Some Reflections on the Role of Jewish Tradition in Derrida's Account of Hospitality Jacob MeskinPART TWO: INTERRELIGIOUS HOSPITALITYI. Jewish PerspectivesChapter 6: The Open Tent: Angels and StrangersEdward KaplanChapter 7: Sukkot: Levinas and the Festival of the CabinsHugh Cummins II. Christian PerspectivesChapter 8: Hospitable by Calling, Inhospitable by NaturePatrick HedermanChapter 9: Biblical, Ethical and Hermeneutical Reflections On Narrative Hospitality Marianne MoyaertIII. Buddhist PerspectivesChapter 10: The Awakening of HospitalityJohn Makransky Chapter 11: Buddhism and Hospitality: Expecting the Unexpected and Acting Virtuously Andy RotmanIV. Islamic PerspectivesChapter 12: The Dead and the City: The Limits of Hospitality in the Early Modern Levant Dana SajdiChapter 13: Some Reflections on Hospitality in IslamJoseph LumbardV. Hindu PerspectivesChapter 14: Food, the Guest, and the Taittiriya Upanisad: Hospitality in the HinduTraditionsFrancis ClooneyChapter 15: God as Guest: Hospitality in Hindu CultureSwami TyaganandaNOTESCONTRIBUTORS