TY - BOOK ID - 46296467 TI - Fostering Interreligious Encounters in Pluralist Societies : Hospitality and Friendship PY - 2019 SN - 3030178056 3030178048 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Religions KW - Hospitality KW - Interreligious relations KW - Relations among religions KW - Relations. KW - Religious aspects. KW - Religion and sociology. KW - Ethnology-Africa. KW - Psychology and religion. KW - Social Aspects of Religion. KW - Sociology of Religion. KW - African Culture. KW - Religion and Psychology. KW - Religion and psychology KW - Religion KW - Religion and society KW - Religious sociology KW - Society and religion KW - Sociology, Religious KW - Sociology and religion KW - Sociology of religion KW - Sociology KW - Ethnology—Africa. KW - Ethnology KW - Culture. KW - Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. KW - Cultural sociology KW - Culture KW - Sociology of culture KW - Civilization KW - Popular culture KW - Africa. KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46296467 AB - This book calls attention to ways of fostering dialogue among members of different religious traditions in an era of cultural and religious pluralism. To achieve this, the author analyzes the results of an ethnographic study of Ihievbe, a town in Midwestern Nigeria that is religiously pluralistic. Emphasis is given to hospitality and friendship—two key relational, cultural, philosophical, and theological virtues—as tools for constructing healthy interreligious dialogue that is relevant for our times. A critical study is done on the importance of these two dialogical virtues in the religious expressions of Roman Catholicism, Islam, and Ihievbe Traditional Religion. Preference for ethnographic studies is based on stressing the relevance of context in articulating useful practices of interreligious dialogue. Finally, the book articulates ways the fruits of interreligious dialogue can be celebrated in the liturgical rituals of each religion, especially the three religions that are addressed here. ER -