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This book aims to show that certain concepts of religious language – not least the notion of religion itself – obtain their meaning rather synchronically than diachronically, namely with regard to situations of real or imagined contact with other religious traditions. As such, the volume contributes to an interdisciplinary and inter-religious perspective in scholarly research on the emergence, formation and stabilization of religious tradition.

The essays expose the various ways of reflection on the possibilities and restraints of communication with another tradition in translation, polemics and dialogue as performed in medieval as well as early modern Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.

The volume gathers contributions of experts from East Asian, Jewish and Islamic Studies, Church History, Theology and Religious Studies to Philosophy. Examining the development of religious language under the guidance of the contact perspective, it acknowledges and emphasizes the close, almost symbiotic relation of religion and language.

The introduction of a linguistic meta-perspective on religion is exposed as being occasionally applied by religious traditions themselves, i.e. by developing certain patterns of language that can be used for comparative purposes.

Contents

Görge K. Hasselhoff, Knut Martin Stünkel

Introduction. The Emergence of Religious Language in Situations of Contact

Jörg Plassen

The Taoist Voice of the Buddhist Commentaries? Some Remarks on the Influence of the Chuang-tzu on the Use of Language in Buddhist Commentarial Literature

Gerhard Endreß

"This is Clear Arabic Speech". God's Speech and Prophetic Language in Early Islamic Hermeneutics, Theology and Philosophy

Anna A. Akasoy

Are We Speaking the Same Language? Translating Truths across Intellectual Traditions in al-Andalus

Jörn Müller

Lessons in Communication. A New Approach to Peter Abelard's Collationes

Beate Ulrike La Sala

Al-Ghazali and Jehuda Halevi. Divine Attributes, Metaphors and Possible Ways to Speak about God

Piero Capelli

Conversion to Christianity and Anti-Talmudic Criticism from Petrus Alfonsi to Nicolas Donin and Pablo Christiani

Görge K. Hasselhoff

Rashi for Latin Readers – The Translations of Paris, 1240. With an Edition of the Excerpts from Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy

Ann Giletti

Gentiles and Jews. Common Ground and Authorities in the Mission of Ramon Martí's Pugio fidei

Knut Martin Stünkel

Towards the Miracle of Language. Ramon Llull and the Creation of a Christian Religious Language

Roberto Hofmeister Pich

A Conflict of Reason. Scotus' Appraisal of Christianity and Judgment of Others Religions

Ulli Roth

John of Segovia and Religious Language/Interreligious Communication

Günter Bader

Johannes 1,1 in den Sermones des Nikolaus von Kues

Knut Martin Stünkel

Towards a Theory of Meta-communicative Elements in Medieval Religious Dialogues. Abelard's Collationes and the Topology of "Religion"

Saverio Campanini

Das Hebräische in Reuchlins Werk

Oswald Bayer

Reliable Word. Luther's Understanding of God, Humanity, and the World

Wulfert de Greef

Calvin: We Learn True Wisdom in the School of God