Hosting the Stranger features ten meditations on the theme of interreligious hospitality by eminent scholars and practitioners from the five different wisdom traditions: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. The first part of the volume offers five different hermeneutic readings that each wrestle with what interreligious hospitality means and what it demands. The second part is divided equally between the five different religious perspectives on hosting the stranger, with two thinkers representing each religion. Together these essays remind us of the urgent need for interreligious hospitality, and more importantly, they testify to its ongoing possibility.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: HOSTING THE STRANGER

Chapter 1: Hospitality in Translation: Hosting the Stranger as a Work of Mourning - James Taylor

Chapter 2: Western Hospitality to Eastern Thought - Joseph O’Leary

Chapter 3: Interreligious Hospitality and its Limits - Catherine Cornille

Chapter 4: Departures: Hospitality as Mediation - Kalpana Seshadri

Chapter 5: Misgivings About Misgivings and the Nature of a Home:  Some Reflections on the Role of Jewish Tradition in Derrida’s Account of Hospitality - Jacob Meskin

PART TWO: INTERRELIGIOUS HOSPITALITY
I. Jewish Perspectives

Chapter 6: The Open Tent: Angels and Strangers - Edward Kaplan

Chapter 7: Sukkot: Levinas and the Festival of the Cabins - Hugh Cummins

II. Christian Perspectives

Chapter 8: Hospitable by Calling, Inhospitable by Nature - Patrick Hederman

Chapter 9: Biblical, Ethical and Hermeneutical Reflections On Narrative Hospitality - Marianne Moyaert

III. Buddhist Perspectives

Chapter 10: The Awakening of Hospitality - John Makransky

Chapter 11: Buddhism and Hospitality: Expecting the Unexpected and Acting Virtuously - Andy Rotman

IV. Islamic Perspectives

Chapter 12: The Dead and the City: The Limits of Hospitality in the Early Modern
Levant - Dana Sajdi

Chapter 13: Some Reflections on Hospitality in Islam - Joseph Lumbard

V. Hindu Perspectives

Chapter 14: Food, the Guest, and the Taittiriya Upanisad: Hospitality in the Hindu
Traditions - Francis Clooney

Chapter 15: God as Guest: Hospitality in Hindu Culture - Swami Tyagananda

Editors

Richard Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and has served as a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin, the University of Paris (Sorbonne) and the University of Nice. He is the author of over 20 books on European philosophy and literature and has edited or co-edited 14 more.

James Taylor is a teaching fellow in the Philosophy Department at Boston College, USA. His main areas of expertise are Ricoeur, Foucault, Heidegger and Gadamer.