Religiously Exclusive, Socially Inclusive: A Religious Response

✍ Scribed by Bernhard Reitsma (editor); Erika Nes-Visscher (editor)

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Is it possible to be religiously exclusive and socially inclusive? How do we deal with those outside of our own religious community who have completely different and sometimes conflicting views on what should be considered true and right behaviour? What if a religious tradition orders the expulsion or killing of those who leave the faith community and adopt another worldview? This book focuses on biblical texts concerning exclusivity and apostasy, studying different interpretations of such texts. It starts with the Jewish and Christian tradition of the Hebrew Bible, continues with texts from the New Testament, and explores diverse social studies to find ways of understanding the relationship between exclusion and inclusion today. Part of this exploration is the interaction with Jewish and Islamic voices. The collection ends with a systematic and missiological reflection on the issues Christian churches and other religious communities must address today.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Exclusion versus Inclusion: Searching for Religious Inspiration
2 A Humble Exclusivism? Reconstructing Exclusivism under Justificationist Rather than Bivalent Parameters
3 Apostasy in Terms of Moral Deviance
4 Apostasy: A Social Identity Perspective
5 Deuteronomy 17:2–7 within the Context of Tanakh
6 Otherness and Exile: Jesus’s Attitude towards Apostates and Outsiders
7 Discerning the Body in 1 Corinthians 10 : The Physical Negotiation of Exclusion and Inclusion by Paul as a Theologian of the Body
8 The Dynamics of Exclusion and Inclusion in 1 Peter
9 Hebrews, Deuteronomy, and Exclusion in the Early Church
10 ‘Idolatry’ in Rabbinic Discussion: To Destroy, to Bury or Something Else? Some Observations on the Subject of ‘Idolatry’ in Rabbinic Questions and Answers on the Internet
11 Al-walā’ w’ al-barā’ (Loyalty and Disavowal): Reconstructing a ‘Creed’ in the Muslim Hermeneutics of ‘Otherness’
12 Apostasy in Islam: An Overview of Sources and Positions
13 Exclusionary Texts in ‘A Common Word’
14 Canaan and the New World : Native Americans Engage the Legacy of Exclusionary Readings
15 The Pela as a Model for Inclusive Peacebuilding
16 Gender-Related Inclusionary and Exclusionary Practices within Evangelical Churches in the Netherlands
17 Religious Exclusivism, Social Inclusion: Missiological Reflections
18 Religious Exclusivism, Social Inclusion: Theological Reflections
Index
Index of Manuscripts