Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and interreligious hermeneutics / Emma O'Donnell Polyakov.

• Superior document: Currents of Encounter
• Author: Polyakov, Emma O'Donnell.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Currents of Encounter 58.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (203 pages)

Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Interreligious Hermeneutics: Ways of Seeing the Religious Other , edited by Emma O’Donnell Polyakov, examines the hermeneutics of interreligious encounter in contexts of conflict. It investigates the implicit judgments of Judaism and Islam that often arise in response to these conflicts, and explores the implications of these interpretations for relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Addressing antisemitism and Islamophobia through the tools of interreligious hermeneutics, this volume brings together three distinct discourses: the study of ancient and new tropes of antisemitism as they appear in today’s world; research into contemporary expressions of fear or suspicion of Islam; and philosophical reflections on the hermeneutics of interreligious encounters.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Emma O’Donnell Polyakov -- Theoretical Starting Points: Interreligious Hermeneutics -- Types of Misunderstanding in Interreligious Hermeneutics / Catherine Cornille -- Making Space for the Other / Marianne Moyaert -- Antisemitism, Anti-Judaism, and Anti-Zionism -- Identity, Theology and the Jews / Randall C. Zachman -- Was Theology to Blame? / Raymond Cohen -- Contemporary Antisemitism in Europe and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Henrik Bachner -- Islamophobia in the Media -- Swedish Media Representation of the Refugee Crisis / Dalia Abdelhady and Gina Fristedt Malmberg -- Affect, Thought, and Hermeneutics / Peter Gottschalk -- Islam in Satire / Jonas Otterbeck -- Epilogue -- Jews, Jihad, and Jesus / James Carroll.