Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration, Translation and Gendered Language
Introduction
Part One: Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Religious
'Otherness'
Chapter 1: 'Self' and 'Other' in Historical Islamic Discourse
Chapter 2: Sameness and Difference in Contemporary Islamic
Approaches to Religious Diversity
Part Two: Conceptual and Hermeneutical Foundations of Muslima
Theology
Chapter 3: Contemporary Muslim Women Interpreters of the Qur'an:
Hermeneutical Approach and Conception of Difference
Chapter 4: From Sexual Difference to Religious Difference: Feminist
Theological Approaches to Religious Difference
Chapter 5: From Holistic Interpretation to Relational Hermeneutics:
Toshihiko Izutsu's Semantic Analysis of the Qur'an
Part Three: A Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism
Chapter 6: Lateral and Hierarchical Religious Difference in the
Qur'an
Chapter 7: Relational Mapping of the Semantic Field of Taqwa:
Concepts of Hierarchical Religious Difference
Chapter 8: Never Wholly 'Other': Sameness, Difference and
Relationality
Glossary of Arabic Terms
Bibliography
Index
Index of Qur'anic Verses
Jerusha Tanner Lamptey is a scholar of Islam, theology of religions
and comparative theology. She is currently Associate Professor of
Islam and Ministry at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
She previously taught at Georgetown University, where she also
received her Ph.D. in Theological and Religious Studies with a
focus on Religious Pluralism in Catholic and Islamic Thought. She
has published several articles and book chapters on
religious pluralism, ecumenical relations, John Paul II, Vatican
II, and African traditional religion.
"Jerusha Tanner Lamptey brilliantly incorporates important ideas
from multiple disciplines in an attempt to challenge prevailing
views on a critical topic. In responding to the question, 'How does
the Qur'an depict the religious Other?,' Lamptey makes the case for
nuance and openness. This is a paradigm-challenging book and one
that constitutes a significant contribution to the study of Islam
and, indeed, religion." --Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Associate
Professor
of Religious Studies and Adjunct Professor of Law, Michigan State
University
"How do American Muslim women interpret the Qur'an and construct a
theology of religious pluralism? This splendid book is an
introduction to both Muslima theology, and to the extraordinary
women who have created and shaped it by interpreting the Qur'an for
a modern, Western context. Through this book, Jerusha Tanner
Lamptey adds her own significant voice to that important
conversation." --Amir Hussain, Professor of Theological Studies,
Loyola Marymount
University
"Jerusha Tanner Lamptey's book is a timely contribution to the
discourse on pluralism and religious diversity. Focusing on the
American social context, Lamptey's construction and expression of a
Muslima theology of religious pluralism is an immensely worthy and
notable engagement with the theology of religions field. By
providing a Muslim female approach to the study of diversity and
pluralism within a theological framework, Lamptey has succeeded in
producing a
novel piece that makes a very significant contribution to the
scholarly discussion of both Islamic feminism and religious
pluralism. This work will be of interest to many scholars in the
field as well
as lay people, and is a delightful read." --Farid Esack, Professor
in the Study of Islam and Head of the Department of Religious
Studies, University of Johannesburg
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