Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441158081
• ISBN13: 9781441158086
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"