Religious Stereotyping and Interreligious Relations

Preface List of Contributors Introduction: 'For Six Strange Weeks They Had Acted As If They Were Friends'; Jesper Svartvik PART I: METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS 1. Public Theology: Reflection on the Future of the Discourse; James Haire 2. Love, Sexual Stereotypes and Confidence; Pamela Sue Anderson 3. The Ambiguous Power of Prejudice and Love; Werner G. Jeanrond 4. Gordon W. Allport's Scholarship Revisited; Jan Hermanson PART II: CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM RELATIONS 5. Reflections on Public, Private and the Secular Space; Mona Siddiqui 6. What Is the Relationship between Stereotyping and the Place of Religion in the Public Sphere?; Blandine Chélini-Pont 7. Occidentalism; Mohammad Fazlhashemi 8. The Image of Islam and Muslims in Swedish Evangelical Press; Kristian Steiner 9. Stereotypes in Christian Theology: Methodological and Eschatological Aspects; Jakob Wirén 10. The Challenge of Tolerance and Peaceful Co-Existence between Christians and Muslims in Northern Nigeria; Thaddeus Umaru PART III: JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS 11. Catholic-Jewish Reconciliation: From Theology to Diplomacy; Raymond Cohen 12. 'You Only Have I Known': Reading the Hebrew Bible as Christians in Light of the Partiality of God for Israel; Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos 13. Interfaith Monologue: The Presbyterian Church in Canada Statement of Relationship with the Jewish People; Mark Godin 14. Othering the Jews from the Church Pulpits; Gunnar Haaland 15. How Can We Be 'Both Loyal and Open?': Some Thought on Religious Education and Prejudice; Deborah Weissman PART IV: ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN RELATIONS 16. The Theological Contribution of the Palestinian Kairos Document; Yohanna Katanacho 17. Old Whines with New Spins; Peter Pettit 18. Recent Uses of of Halakhic Discourses in Israel: Encouraging Racism and Violence; Ophir Yarden PART V: CASE STUDIES 19. Joseph Goebbels, Kristina Söderbaum and Jud Süss (1940): Seventy Years Later; Erik Hedling 20. Asher Lev at the Israel Museum: Stereotyping Art and Craft; Alana Vincent 21. Can Stereotypes Be Banned?: Pastor Åke Green and the Limits and Limitations of the Freedom of Expression; Linde Lindkvist