Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Philosophical, Theological and Phenomenological Observations On doing what others do: International and Intuitions in Multiple Religious Practice........19 Bowing before Buddha and Allah ? Reflection on Crossing over Ritual Boundaries ............33 Enlightened Presuppositions of Cross- Ritual Participation ...........43 Religion is as Religion Does : Interfaith Prayer as a Form of ritual participation ..................53 Interreligious ritual Participation : Insights from Inter-Christian Ritual Participation ..........67 2. Muslim and christian - Muslim Perspectives Receiving the Stranger : A muslim theology of Shared workship ...............81 Interreligious prayer between Roman Catholic Christians and Muslims ...........93 Back-and Forth Riting : The Dynamics of Christian- Muslim Encountersin Shrine Rituals ......109 3. Christian and east Asian Religious Perspectives Offering and Receiving Hospitality : The meaning of Ritual Participation in the Hindu Temple ..........125 Toward an Open Eucharist .........138 The practie of Zazen as Ritual Performance ...............156 Theorizing ritual for interreligious practice ........166 4. Jewish and Jewish - Christian Perspectives Transgressing and setting rituals boundaries .....................181 Mourning the loss of my Daughter .......195 Parameters of Hospitality for Interreligious participation .........205