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Theological reflections on multi-religious identity
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)This article attempts to provide a theological assessment of multireligious identity, especially in the context of the Hindu-Christian encounters. The paper rests on recent post-colonialist literature on religion and assumes ... -
The Enlightenment: A century on its way to multiculturalism
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)This essay brings out the cultural encounters which characterise the Enlightenment and the contemporary situation. The Enlightenment was an era when cultural encounters were on the rise, but it was also a time when racist ... -
Friedrich Schlegels early Romantic notion of religion in relation to two presuppositions of the Enlightenment
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)German early Romanticism was an intellectual movement that originated in the era between the great French Revolution of 1789 and the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars in 1803. Usually, it is defined in contrast to the ... -
Interreligious dialogue: Moving between compartmentalization and complexity
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)Interreligious dialogues as organized activities establish religious difference among its participants as a premise. This article discusses how various ways of signifying religious difference in interreligious dialogues ... -
The critics of false culture: On the Finnish reception of the Enlightenment
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)Heli Rantala’s contribution discusses the heritage of the Enlightenment from the perspective of Finnish nineteenth century cultural discourse. She argues that the Finnish reception of the Enlightenment had a negative tone. ... -
Dare to know, dare to tell, dare to play
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)In her concluding statement summarising the discussions and themes presented during the workshops, lectures and concerts of the Aboagora symposium, Helga Nowotny underlines the need for researchers to be courageous and ... -
Reflections
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)This final section presents a literary excerpt and three personal reflections on the theme of Aboagora, as well as on the experience of taking part in Aboagora. It opens with a story written by Ruth Behar, dealing with her ... -
Artists in dialogue: Creative approaches to interreligious encounters
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)This article explores the forms and functions of contemporary interreligious dialogue by focusing on artists who are active in this field. They represent different art forms and different religious positions: with their ... -
Jesus Christ as 'vere Deus' as a challenge for interreligious dialogue
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)The article explores a line of Christological argumentation which sets out the notion of Christ’s divinity in a way which does not end up with an exclusivist attitude towards other religions. I regard the Chalcedonian ‘vere ... -
The search for happiness in the eighteenth century and today
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)The changing world of the eighteenth century and the preceding centuries challenged the traditional view of happiness and good life. Thinkers of the eighteenth century pursued happiness through their texts in various ways. ... -
Initiating dialogue
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)The editorial note presents the journal and the current issue. The purpose of this newly inaugurated e-journal is to contribute to the plurality of voices in the academic discussion on religion Approaching Religion aims ... -
Lhitage des Lumies: The Enlightenment as an unfinished and morally demanding project
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)The French Enlightenment and the Revolution of 1789 have commonly been seen as forerunners of modern Western European democracies and democratic values such as inalienable human rights, freedom from oppression, equality, ... -
Aboagora - Between Arts and Sciences
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)The editorial note presents the journal and the current issue. The purpose of this e-journal is to contribute to the plurality of voices in the academic discussion on religion. Approaching Religion aims at offering an ... -
Rethinking the Enlightenment
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)In this introductory statement, given at the beginning of the Aboagora symposium in Turku in August 2011, Yehuda Elkana highlights the need, in accordance with the title of the conference, to rethink rather than unthink ... -
The moving and shifting concept of culture
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)Today, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, cultural, and gender scholars are interested in culture not only as it is performed, but as it is continuously done, constructed, maintained through acting, musicking, talking, ... -
A postcolonial philosophy of religion and interreligious polylogue
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Rethinking the Enlightenment, or thinking the Enlightenment for the first time
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)In his famous comment on Kant’s Was ist Aufklärung?, Foucault considers that the debate ‘for’ or ‘against’ the Enlightenment has no meaning as such, and calls for a new space of inquiry that would take into account our own ... -
Pitfalls of consensus-orientated dialogue: the German Islam Conference (Deutsche Islam Konferenz)
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)This article discusses one deliberative approach to dialogue as conceptualized by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas and brings this into a conversation with the current dialogue practice of the Deutsche Islam Konferenz (DIK) ... -
Philosophies of interreligious dialogue: Practice in search of theory
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)In this article, I discuss how insights from Martin Buber’s and Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophies of dialogue have enlightened my own experience of inter-faith dialogue in Norway. Central perspectives here are Buber’s notion ... -
Book reviews
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)Four book reviews are included in this issue of Approaching Religion: The Process of Buddhist-Christian Dialogue (2009) by Paul O. Ingram is reviewed by Dr Teuvo Laitila. The book deals with contemporary dialogues between ...
