Spaces are produced and shaped by discourses and, in turn, produce and shape discourses themselves. âSpaceâ is becoming a significant and complex concept for the encounter between people, cultures, religions, ideologies, politics, between histories and memories, the advantaged and the disadvantaged, the powerful and the weak. As a result, it provides a rich hermeneutical and methodological inventory for mapping interculturality and interreligiosity. This volume looks at space as a critical theory and epistemological tool within cultural studies that fosters the analysis of power structures and the deconstruction of representations of identities within our societies that are shaped by power.
Ulrich Winkler is Extraordinary Professor of Systematic Theology and Co-Director of the Centre for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies at Salzburg University, Austria.
Lidia RodrÃguez Fernández, is biblical lecturer at the University of Deusto (Bilbao and Donostia) in Spain. She has published several articles on religious diversity and secularization in the Basque Country.
Oddbjørn Leirvik is Professor of Interreligious Studies at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Contents
Dedication
Preface
Part I - Approaching the Topos
Chapter 1. In Search of Pastoral Power: Religious Confrontations with Thirdspace - Hans-Joachim Sander
Chapter 2. Texts as Places of Sacred Meeting: Towards an Ethic for Comparative and Interreligious Readings and Transgressions - Paul Hedges
Chapter 3. Interreligious Studies: A New Academic Discipline? - Oddbjørn Leirvik
Chapter 4. Religious Identities in Third Space: The Location of Comparative Theology - Ulrich Winkler
Part II - Changing Spaces
Chapter 5. The Maps and Tours of Theological Knowledge: Reading Melchior Canoâs De Locis Theologicis after the Spatial Turn - Judith Gruber
Chapter 6. Sacred Time as Sacred Space: The Spaces of Memory and Anticipation in Christianity and Judaism - Emma OâDonnell
Chapter 7. Metaphors We Dialogue By: Spatial Metaphors in the Common Word Dialogue Process - Vebjørn L.Horsfjord
Chapter 8. Hagia Sophia and the Third Space. An Enquiry into the Discursive Construction of Religious Sites - Sigrid Rettenbacher
Chapter 9. Reform in a Muslim Context: Contested Interpretations Through Time and Space - Yaser Ellethy
Chapter 10. The Location of Religion in Bruce Springsteenâs Wrecking Ball: Common Ground Prior to âReligiousâ and âSecularâ? - Henry Jansen
Part III - Theological Transgression: Facing the Other in Migration and Gender
Chapter 14. The Reconquista Reversed? Muslim Presence in Contemporary Spain - John Chesworth
Chapter 15. Blazing Light and Perfect Death: The Martyrs of Córdoba and the Growth of Polemical Holiness - Aaron T. Hollander
Chapter 16. From Acceptance to Religious Freedom: Considerations for Convivencia in Medieval Spain and Multireligious Coexistence Today - Mariano Delgado
Part V - The Basque Country: Sharing Space as a Minority Religion
Chapter 23. Europe as a Contested Space and European Cities as Shifting Symbols of Europe throughout History: Historical Changes in the Spatial Orientation of Europe and its Images of âEuropeannessâ - Lourens Minnema
Chapter 24. The Festival as Heterotopia in the City as Shared Religious Space - Jaco Beyers
Chapter 25. Between Fear, Freedom, and Control: Islam and the Construction of a Modern European Identity - Lucien van Liere
Index of Subjects
Index of Names
Contributors to this Volume