Interfaith dialogue : listening to communication theory
Communication theory provides a compelling way to understand how people of faith can and should work together in today’s tumultuous world. In this book, fifteen authors present their experiences and analyses of interfaith dialogue, and contextualize interfaith work within the frame of rhetorical and communication studies.
1 online resource (238 pages)
9780739178706, 9781299316218, 9780739178713, 0739178709, 1299316212, 0739178717
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Print version:
Part 1: Fundamentals Chapter 1: Communication Theory Meets Interfaith DialogueDaniel S. Brown, Jr.Chapter 2: Managing the Anxiety and Uncertainty of Religious Otherness: Interfaith Dialogue as a Problem of Intercultural CommunicationMark Ward, Sr.Chapter 3: Humanizing and Dehumanizing Responses Across Four Orientations to Religious OthernessCharles Soukup and James KeatenChapter 4: Rhetorology and Interfaith DialogueAdrienne E. Hacker DanielsPart 2: Applications Chapter 5: A Narrative Approach to Interfaith Dialogue: Explanations & RecommendationsKenneth DanielsonChapter 6: St. Francis and the Sultan: Adaptive Structuration TheoryBarbara S. Spies, OFSChapter 7: Hope Analysis: Pathways, Agency, and Interfaith DialogueDaniel S. Brown, Jr.Chapter 8: The Power of Living Parables for Transformative Interfaith EncountersElizabeth W. McLaughlinChapter 9: Memory and Interfaith Dialogue in the Context of GlobalizationDiana I. Bowen and Paul Fortunato Chapter 10: Speech and Silence as Rhetorical Space: Lessons from an Inter-Racial ChurchRose M. MettsPart 3: Challenges Chapter 11: Not in my Sandbox: Organizational Culture, Identity, and Interfaith CollaborationMaria Dixon and Greg G. ArmfieldChapter 12: Hindu Interfaith Discourse: Spiral of Silence as a Theological InevitabilityRamesh N. Rao and Padma KuppaChapter 13: The “God Problem” In Interfaith Dialogue: Situating Divine Speech in the Seven Traditions of Communication TheoryMark Ward, Sr.