Table of Contents

Introduction: Conviviality in Multi-Religious Communities: Peace, Justice, Unity, and Diversities, Roland Faber and Santiago Slabodsky

Part I: Multi-Religious Conversations
1. Conviviality: Particular Religions, Universalist Fellowship—Some Jewish Reflections, Bradley Shavit Artson
2. From Violence to Tolerance: Kazi Nazrul Islam’s Relevance to Discussions on Conviviality in the Muslim Tradition, Mustafa Ruzgar
3. From Tolerance to Unity: the Baha’i Faith and Conviviality, Ian Kluge
4. How Wicca Contributes to Religious Conviviality, Constance Wise
5. Conviviality with Dao: A Chinese Perspective, Meijun Fan

Part II: Political Challenges and Opportunities
6. Religions’ Contribution to the Affirmation of Life and Political Agency, Helene Slessarev-Jamir
7. Political Liberalism, Conviviality, and Process Thought, Daniel A. Dombrowski
8. The Fires of Desire: Finding Conviviality in a Common Challenge, C. Robert Mesle
9. The Unspeakable Conviviality of Becoming, Catherine Keller

Part III: Ecologies of Multi-Religious Futures
10. “Must ‘religion’ always remain as a synonym for ‘hatred’?” Whiteheadian Meditations on the Future of Togetherness, Roland Faber
11. Tools for Religious Conviviality: Ivan Illich, Process Thought, and Political Ecology on a Multireligious Planet, Jacob Erickson
12. The Problem of the Two Ultimates and the Proposal of an Ecozoics of the Deity: In Dialogue with Thomas Berry, Sallie McFague, Anselm, Aquinas, Whitehead, and Nishida, Toki Nobuhara
13. Architectures of Risk, The Convivial Occasion of Experiential Religious Naturalism in Tagore and Whitehead, Brianne Donaldson
14. Whiteheadian Perspective-Taking as a Basis for ‘Peace’ through Interfaith Dialogue: With Special Reference to Confucianism & Japanese Buddhism, Steve Odin

Epilogue: Planetarity and Conviviality, Jay McDaniel

About the Author

Roland Faber is Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb, Jr. professor of process studies at Claremont School of Theology, professor of religion and philosophy at Claremont Graduate University, executive codirector of the Center for Process Studies, and founder and executive director of the Whitehead Research Project.

Santiago Slabodsky is Florence and Robert Kaufman chair in Jewish studies and assistant professor of religion at Hofstra University–New York.

Reviews

This volume asks what Whitehead’s process philosophy can offer to a planet in the midst of continual religious and political rupture. Each essay carefully grapples with the prospect of balancing justice and peace without resorting to stifling assimilation or alienating the other. The result is a compelling collection that imagines interreligious harmony not as a naïve utopia of sameness, but as a continual unfolding of events in which differences—both complementary and destructive—are ingredients.
*J. R. Hustwit, Methodist University*