Prayer: Christian and Muslim Perspectives - Paperback

by David Marshall (Editor), Lucinda Mosher (Editor), David Marshall (Contribution by)

Prayer: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a rich collection of essays, scriptural texts, and personal reflections featuring leading scholars analyzing the meaning and function of prayer within their traditions. Drawn from the 2011 Building Bridges seminar in Doha, Qatar, the essays in this volume explore the devotional practices of each tradition and how these practices are taught and learned. Relevant texts are included, with commentary, as are personal reflections on prayer by each of the seminar participants. The volume also contains a Christian reflection on Islamic prayer and a Muslim reflection on Christian prayer. An extensive account of the informal conversations at the seminar conveys a vivid sense of the lively, penetrating, but respectful dialogue that took place.

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Religion / World Religions

"This book is a marvelous look at how both equality and inequality are addressed in various ways by Muslims and Christians. It provides us with not only solid foundations in both religious traditions but also an opportunity to rethink our own views and reshape our own practices in light of that encounter and dialogue."
-- Amir Hussain, professor and chair of theological studies, Loyola Marymount University

In this volume of the Building Bridges Seminar, fourteen leading Christian and Muslim scholars respond to the global crisis of inequality by modeling interreligious dialogue. A World of Inequalities takes an intersectional approach, examining aspects of global inequality including gender, race and ethnicity, caste and social class, economic and sociopolitical disparities, and slavery. Essays explore the roots of these realities, as well as how they are treated in Christian and Muslim traditions and texts, and how the two faiths can work together to address inequality.

A World of Inequalities brings readers into this conversation, inviting them to engage in a similar dialogue by offering pairs of essays alongside religious texts for close reading. Scholars, religious leaders, and students of theology and theological ethics will find this book to be a vital resource to address these pressing issues.

Lucinda Mosher is the rapporteur of the Building Bridges Seminar and coeditor of seven previous volumes generated by that dialogue. Concurrently, she is Hartford Seminary's Faculty Associate in Interfaith Studies and an affiliate of its Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. She holds a doctor of theology degree from the General Theological Seminary (NYC).

Contributors: Ovamir Anjum; Jonathan Brown; Sunil Caleb; C. Rosalee Velloso Ewell; Christopher M. Hays; David Hollenbach, SJ; Leslie J. Hoppe, OFM; Samia Huq; Sherman A. Jackson; Fran?ois Pazisnewende Kabor?, SJ; Azza Karam; Lucinda Mosher; Elizabeth Phillips; Abdullah Saeed

Author Biography

David Marshall is director of the Anglican Episcopal House of Studies and associate professor of the practice of Christian-Muslim relations, Duke Divinity School and the academic director of the Building Bridges seminar.

Lucinda Mosher is the faculty associate for Interfaith Studies, Hartford Seminary and the assistant academic director of the Building Bridges seminar.