Lexington Books
Pages: 178
Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-1-4985-0343-3 • Hardback • November 2014 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
Alon Goshen-Gottstein is founder and director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute. A noted scholar of Jewish studies, he has held academic posts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University and has served as director of the Center for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morasha College, Jerusalem.
Foreword: Think-Tank of the Elijah Interfaith Institute, Barcelona, 2004Preface, Alon Goshen-GottsteinChapter 1: “The Holy” in Religions, Alon Goshen-GottsteinChapter 2: Summary of Essays, Alon Goshen-GottsteinChapter 3: Buddhism, Michael von Brück and Maria Reis HabitoChapter 4: Christianity: A Roman Catholic’s View, Sidney H. GriffithChapter 5: Judaism: Challenges and Opportunities in the Contemporary Jewish Crisis of the Holy, B. Barry LevyChapter 6: Hindusim: The Creation and Transformation of Hinduism, Deepak SarmaChapter 7: Islam, Vincent J. CornellChapter 8: Concluding Reflections, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
The Crisis of the Holy makes an important and original contribution to a field that has been well researched and written about—the impact of modernity on religion. By adopting a double perspective—that of an external, observation-based one and an internal, reflective and theologically oriented one, the collection breaks new ground concerning the possibility of new creative and meaningful forms of religion emerging out of the modern 'crisis of the holy.'
— Shlomo Fischer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem