Rethinking Interreligious Dialogue

Orality, Collective Memory, and Christian-Muslim Engagements in Indonesia

By (author) Izak Y. M. Lattu

Book cover: Rethinking Interreligious Dialogue

Extent: 201 pages

Publisher: Brill | Schöningh

Subjects: Asian/Pacific Studies & Religions, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Global Religion - Religion Global

Series volume number: 3

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(August 2023)

ISBN: 9783506790200

6.1 x 9.25 inches

Price: $134.00

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This book’s central argument is that oral forms of collective memory in Christian-Muslim engagements in orally-oriented societies are more effective than interreligious dialogue through the dominant written text based on elite-based concepts. The approach has dominated interreligious interactions. From the perspective of the social scientific study of interreligious encounters & collective memory in folklore studies, this book explores how orality and social remembrance articulated through folksong, oral narrative, and ritual performance strengthen interreligious engagements in the post-conflict society. The approach proposed in this book reclaims interreligious engagements based on the local Indonesian dynamic preserved in ritual performance, oral narrative, and folksong. This method articulates a contextualized interreligious engagement grounded in local culture.

  • By (author) Izak Y. M. Lattu