Part 1: Fundamentals
Chapter 1: Communication Theory Meets Interfaith Dialogue
Daniel S. Brown, Jr.
Chapter 2: Managing the Anxiety and Uncertainty of Religious
Otherness: Interfaith Dialogue as a Problem of Intercultural
Communication
Mark Ward, Sr.
Chapter 3: Humanizing and Dehumanizing Responses Across Four
Orientations to Religious Otherness
Charles Soukup and James Keaten
Chapter 4: Rhetorology and Interfaith Dialogue
Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels
Part 2: Applications
Chapter 5: A Narrative Approach to Interfaith Dialogue:
Explanations & Recommendations
Kenneth Danielson
Chapter 6: St. Francis and the Sultan: Adaptive Structuration
Theory
Barbara S. Spies, OFS
Chapter 7: Hope Analysis: Pathways, Agency, and Interfaith
Dialogue
Daniel S. Brown, Jr.
Chapter 8: The Power of Living Parables for Transformative
Interfaith Encounters
Elizabeth W. McLaughlin
Chapter 9: Memory and Interfaith Dialogue in the Context of
Globalization
Diana I. Bowen and Paul Fortunato
Chapter 10: Speech and Silence as Rhetorical Space: Lessons from an
Inter-Racial Church
Rose M. Metts
Part 3: Challenges
Chapter 11: Not in my Sandbox: Organizational Culture, Identity,
and Interfaith Collaboration
Maria Dixon and Greg G. Armfield
Chapter 12: Hindu Interfaith Discourse: Spiral of Silence as a
Theological Inevitability
Ramesh N. Rao and Padma Kuppa
Chapter 13: The “God Problem” In Interfaith Dialogue: Situating
Divine Speech in the Seven Traditions of Communication Theory
Mark Ward, Sr.
Daniel S. Brown, Jr. is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Pennsylvania’s Grove City College.
In our culture of ideological division where voices compete for
attention as they propagandize and polarize political and religious
establishments, this engaging collection calls for authentic
dialogue and civility. It also seeks to build-bridges among faith
traditions in thoughtful ways that effectively transcend the divide
and speak to the wider society.
*Robert H. Woods, Spring Arbor University*
This collection moves from the fundamentals of communication theory
and interfaith dialogue to the application and challenges of those
principles. Clearly it is not enough to know the doctrinal and
cultural differences found in our pluralistic religious
environments, one must also understand the obstacles that separate
us from the other. A Communication Perspective on Interfaith
Dialogue is an important contribution to breaking down the walls
that hinder our progress toward peace and understanding.
*Richard K. Eckley, Houghton College*
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