Table of Contents

Foreword, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Overview: Introducing Interreligious Friendship: Types of Friendship, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Summary of Essays on Interreligious Friendship, Stephen Butler Murray
Introduction: Friendship Across Religions—Project Overview and Synthesis, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Chapter 1: Understanding Jewish Friendship, Extending Friendship beyond Judaism, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Chapter 2: Very Two as Very One: A Response to Understanding Jewish Friendship, Meir Sendor
Chapter 3: A Christian Perspective on Interreligious Friendship, Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Chapter 4: The Sacramentality of Inter-religious Friendship, Johann M. Vento
Chapter 5: Toward a Muslim Theology of Interreligious Friendship, Timothy J. Gianotti
Chapter 6: “Love Speaking to Love”: Friendship Across Religious Traditions, Anantanand Rambachan
Chapter 7: Interreligious Friendship: Insights from the Sikh Tradition, Eleanor Nesbitt
Chapter 8: Sikh Perspective on Friendship: Inside View, Balwant Singh Dhillon
Conclusion: Friendship Across Religions: An Interreligious Manifesto, Alon Goshen-Gottstein

About the Author

Alon Goshen-Gottstein is founder and director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute. A noted scholar of Jewish studies, he has held academic posts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University and has served as director of the Center for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morasha College, Jerusalem.

Reviews

Better understanding of self and other, on its own, is enough reason to value highly the importance of interreligious friendship and to include this text in any contemporary canon on interreligious studies. The volume concludes with a useful eightfold shared manifesto on interreligious friendship which can also be publicly accessed at elijah-interfaith.org/addressing-the-world/friendship-across-religions.
*Theological Studies*

The Elijah Institute has blessed us with an in-depth exploration of interreligious friendship from the perspective of several religious traditions. These essays are both erudite and edgy. They look deeply into religious traditions in the hope of laying down a foundation for the future of interreligious relations in a world that promises to become only more complicated. The authors search out the resources within the traditions that support interreligious friendships today and are fearless in pointing out the obstacles to such friendships also found in the traditions. This book is going to be a very valuable contribution to a global discussion.
*James Fredericks, Loyola Marymount University*