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Dear Colleagues,
I have a copy
of Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions edited by Richard Kearney and James
Taylor available for review for the
Hospitality & Society Journal. Details of the book, including the
table of contents, are copied in below. We are looking for a professional
but critical review, about 1000 words in length, that discusses the books'
content and its contribution to various disciplines. Reviewers are asked to be
mindful of the journal's multidisciplinary audience and to also stress in
their review how the book contributes to our understanding of hospitality
and society.
On a related
note, the journal welcomes theoretical and empirical papers that
explore the relationship between religion, hospitality and society.
All the
best.
Peter
About the
book
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. The first
part of the volume offers five different hermeneutic readings that each wrestle
with what interreligious hospitality means and what it demands. The second part
is divided equally between the five different religious perspectives on hosting
the stranger, with two thinkers representing each religion. Together these
essays remind us of the urgent need for interreligious hospitality, and more
importantly, they testify to its ongoing possibility.
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: HOSTING THE
STRANGER
Chapter 1: Hospitality in Translation: Hosting the Stranger as a
Work of Mourning
James Taylor
Chapter 2: Western Hospitality to
Eastern Thought
Joseph O’Leary
Chapter 3: Interreligious Hospitality
and its Limits
Catherine Cornille
Chapter 4: Departures: Hospitality
as Mediation
Kalpana Seshadri
Chapter 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 Meskin
PART TWO:
INTERRELIGIOUS HOSPITALITY
I. Jewish Perspectives
Chapter 6: The
Open Tent: Angels and Strangers
Edward Kaplan
Chapter 7: Sukkot:
Levinas and the Festival of the Cabins
Hugh Cummins
II. Christian
Perspectives
Chapter 8: Hospitable by Calling, Inhospitable by
Nature
Patrick Hederman
Chapter 9: Biblical, Ethical and Hermeneutical
Reflections On Narrative Hospitality
Marianne Moyaert
III. Buddhist
Perspectives
Chapter 10: The Awakening of Hospitality
John Makransky
Chapter 11: Buddhism and Hospitality: Expecting the Unexpected and
Acting Virtuously
Andy Rotman
IV. Islamic Perspectives
Chapter
12: The Dead and the City: The Limits of Hospitality in the Early Modern Levant
Dana Sajdi
Chapter 13: Some Reflections on Hospitality in
Islam
Joseph Lumbard
V. Hindu Perspectives
Chapter 14: Food,
the Guest, and the Taittiriya Upanisad: Hospitality in the Hindu Traditions
Francis Clooney
Chapter
15: God as Guest: Hospitality in Hindu Culture
Swami
Tyagananda
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Peter Lugosi, PhD
Senior Lecturer
School of Tourism
Bournemouth University
Talbot Campus
Fern Barrow
Poole
Dorset
BH12 5BB
Tel. 01202 961888
Fax. 01202 515707
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