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1. Textual Reflections on Patricularism and Universalism Judith Simmer-Brown, Negotiating conflicting Reeligious Claims through Inquiry: The Kalama Sutta ..........3 Anantanand Rambachan, are Religious Differences only Semantic ..........13 Mahan Mirza, Balancing Theological Exclusivism with Metaphysical Inclusivism .................23 Abigail Clauhs, The Cathedral of the world Interconnection in Difference ..............31 Amos Yong and Timothy T N Lim, Acts 2 and Interreligious Engagement : Pentecostal and Evangelical Reflections .................42 Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Wrestling with Chosenness: A personal Reflection ................53 Personal Virtues in Support of Interreligious Engagement Burton L. Visotzky, Be as Gentle as the Reed: A rabbinic Tale about Confronting the Other .............65 Jennifer howe Peace , Just as I have loved You. A christian Hermeneutics of Love ............72 Clene Ibrahim, Surah al-Alaq and Dispositions for Interreligious Engangement ..............82 Esther boyd, Hospitality, communal Responsibility , and Humility : Secular Humanism and the new colossus ..........93 3. Sacred Practices and Interreligious Commitments Homayra Ziad, Meeting in the Realm of Poetry and Music : Qawwali Devotional Music ........103 Varum Soni, On the Rosary of my Breath, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan`s Mystical Fusion .........112 Joshua M. Z Stanton, Sacred Debate: Makhloket and Interreligious Dialogue ............121 Andrew R. Davis, Biblical Exegesis as Interreligious Dialogue and Spiritual Practice .............129 Sherman A Jackson, And Among the People of the Book : Reading Beyond Offense, Confirmation, or Gratification ..............139 Simran Jeet Singh, Unity and Multiplicity : The Practice of Sohila and Sikh Theology ................148 4. Interreligious Engagement and the Public Square Hussein Rashid, Opening the Door, Iman Ali and New Conversations in Interreligious Dialogue ...............159 Jeffery d. Long, Swami Vivekananda`s Address to the First parliament of the World`s Religions on September 11, 1893............170 Ruben L. F. Habito, Nostra Aetate: Catholic Charter for Intterreligious Engagement ........180 Rahuldeep Gill, Whatever Pleases the one : Guru Nanak`s Response to Violence and Warfare ..........191 Or N. Rose, Spiritual Activism : Abraham Joshua Heschel`s Telegram to President Kennedy ..........200 MT Davila, Archbishop Oscar Romero`s Call for Peace and Reconciliation .............209 Amy Eilberg, Clergy Beyond Border : A Caravan of Reconciliation ..............219 |