A communication perspective on interfaith dialogue : living within the Abrahamic traditions / edited by Daniel S. Brown, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Communication theory meets interfaith dialogue / Daniel S. Brown, Jr. -- Managing the anxiety and uncertainty of religious otherness: interfaith dialogue as a problem of intercultural communication / Mark Ward, Sr.-- Humanizing and dehumanizing responses across four orientations to religious otherness / Charles Soukup and James Keaten -- Rhetorology and interfaith dialogue / Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels -- A narrative approach to interfaith dialogue : explanations and recommendations / Kenneth Danielson -- St. Francis and the sultan : adaptive structuration theory / Barbara S. Spies -- Hope analysis : pathways, agency, and interfaith dialogue / Daniel S. Brown, Jr. -- The power of living parables for transformative interfaith encounters / Elizabeth W. McLaughlin -- Memory and interfaith dialogue in the context of globalization / Diana I. Bowen and Paul Fortunato -- Speech and silence as rhetorical space : lessons from an inter-racial church / Rose M. Meltz -- Not in my sandbox : organizational culture, identity, and interfaith collaboration / Maria Dixon and Greg G. Armfield -- Hindu interfaith discourse : spiral of silence as a theological inevitability / Ramesh N. Rao and Padma Kuppa -- The "God problem" in interfaith dialogue : situating divine speech in the seven traditions of communication theory / Mark Ward, Sr.

"Communication theory provides a compelling way to understand how people of faith can and should work together in today's tumultuous world. In A Communication Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue, fifteen authors present their experiences and analysis of interfaith dialogue and contextualize interfaith work within the frame of rhetorical and communication studies. While the focus is on the Abrahamic faiths, the chapters also include discussion of Hinduism and interracial faith efforts. Each chapter incorporates communication theories that bring clarity to the practices and problems of interfaith communication. Where other interfaith books provide theological, political, or sociological insights, this volume is committed to the perspectives contained in communication scholarship. Interfaith dialogue is best imagined as an organic process and it does not require theological heavyweights gathered for academic banter. As such, this volume focuses on the processes and means by which interfaith meaning is produced."--Page 4 of cover.