This volume is the first attempt to explicitly investigate how the multiplicity of religions and forms of spirituality interconnect with the multiplicities of language, such as digital lingo and the language of science. This book analyzes how religious and linguistic multiplicities become a pluralism, that is, how they enter into polyphonic relations, as well as how they interconnect, grow together, and why they often clash. The contributors are renown international scholars working in interreligious dialogue, philosophy and sociology of religion, history of religious arts, and the crossroads of religion and science.
This text provides the setting for a dialogue on a rich variety of religious languages and traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Jainism, and Christianity. Each chapter connects these traditions either in profound interreligious means, or with linguistic codes such as: vernacular speeches, sacred dialects and technological language. Some linguist examples are the impact of Artificial Intelligence on religious beliefs, the synergy between science and religion in the alchemist tradition and in magic, as well as the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and current religious practices. This volume contributes to interfaith studies and teaching, to sociology and philosophy of religion, and finally to the history and anthropology of religion and the sacred arts. It is intended for students, researchers, instructors and professionals alike.
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Because of the breadth of this collection, framing its provenance helpfully illuminates its expansiveness. readers will be drawn to individual authors or topics depending on their research foci. Threaded together at the very high level of generality operative here allows for much to be considered within these pages . (Amos Yong, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 50 (3), September, 2024)
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1. Beyond Babel: Interconnecting Religions and Languages.-
Conceptual Orientations.- Chapter
2. Divine Language, Graham Oppy.
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3. The Oscillation Paradigm in Interreligious Dialogue.
Chapter
4. Religious
Language, Silence, and Scientific Imagination.- Interreligious and
Intertextual Gatherings.- Chapter
5. On the Power of Imperfect Words: An
Inquiry into the Revelatory Power of One Hindu Verse.- Chapter
6.
Interreligious Empathy and Linguistic Plurality.- Chapter
7. Beyond
Comparisons to Contemplative Theology.- Chapter
8. Religious Reformation and
Arabic Language in Colonian India.- Living Religions, Living Speeches, Living
Texts.- Chapter
9. Knowledge from words: text, tradition and authority in
Indian Thought-Tradition.- Chapter
10. (Re)Connecting Analytic Philosophy and
Empirical Research. The Example of Ritual Speech Acts and Religious
Collectivities.- Chapter
11. Jainism and Sanscrit Language.- Chapter
12.
Expression to Our Christmas Feeling: Imagining Familial Religion in
Schleiermacher.- Religious and Scientific Codes.- Chapter
13. Islamic
Geometries: Spiritual Language against a Secularist Grid.- Chapter
14.
Scientific and Religious Discourses in COVID-19 Pandemic.- Chapter
15.
Theological Discourse as Scientific Discourse.- Chapter
16. Religion and
Science in Victorian Alchemic Practices.- Chapter
17. Mathematics Declaring
the Glory of God.- Religions in a Technological World.- Chapter
18. A
Simplified Variant of Gödels Ontological Argument.- Chapter
19. Human
Dignity after the Human.- Chapter
20. (Online) Spelling the (Digital) Spell:
Talking About Magic in the Digital Revolution.- Chapter
21. Religious Belief
and Complex Systems.- Religious Limits of Language.- Chapter
22.
Ineffability: Its Origins and Problems.- Chapter
23. Would We Speak if We
Hadnt to Die?.- Chapter
24. Paradox and Diagonalization.
Andrea Vestrucci teaches and conducts research for the Department of Applied Computer Science at the University of Bamberg, Germany (Chair of AI Systems Engineering). He is also a Research Professor at Starr King School, Oakland, CA, and a Privat-Dozent at the University of Geneva. He dovetails the philosophical and computational approaches to Artificial Intelligence by exploring metaphysical arguments and cognitive models in automated reasoning environments. He focuses on ethical issues raised by intelligent systems in interaction with groups and communities values and decision-making processes. Formerly Professor at the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, and Researcher at UC Berkeley (Consortium for Interdisciplinary Research), he is the recipient of the Australian Award, and a laureate of the Academic Society of Geneva.
