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Multireligious Reflections on Friendship: Becoming Ourselves in Community presents a multi-religious discussion of spiritual and ethical formation through friendship. Contributors discuss the positive effects of friendship and some of the culturally diverse ways that friendships develop. Friends help us co-exist in diverse societies, live sustainably in our ecosystems, heal from trauma, develop inner virtues, engage wisely in social action, and connect with the divine. While friendship is a core human value, cultural traditions have used different tools to build friendships. For example, Indigenous communities emphasize reciprocity on the land; Jewish traditions encourage respect for study partners; Buddhist teachers suggest discernment in befriending; Christian texts speak of bringing God's love into community. The fifteen scholars contributing to this book draw on the teachings of six different global traditions: Indigenous, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Islamic, and Christian. Each scholar applies the tools of their tradition—reciprocity, respect, discernment, love, and more—to discuss how we might become our best selves in community.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Laura Duhan-Kaplan, Hussam S. Timani, and Anne-Marie Ellithorpe
Chapter One: Friendship, Treaty, and Family: Indigenous Insights
Raymond C. Aldred and Allen G. Jorgenson
Chapter Two: Friendships of Equality: Mitratva, Hindu Traditions, and Interfaith Possibilities
Jeffery D. Long
Chapter Three: Civic Friendship and Reciprocity: Ancient Biblical Exhortations, Contemporary Opportunities
Anne-Marie Ellithorpe
Chapter Four: Becoming a Friend to the World: Śāntideva on "Bodhisattva Friendship"
John M. Thompson
Chapter Five: Sacred Fellowship Among Learners: A Kabbalistic Pedagogy for Our Times
Laura Duhan-Kaplan
Chapter Six: God, Prophecy, and Friendship in Islam: A Theological Perspective
Hussam S. Timani
Chapter Seven: Ineffable Accompaniment: Towards a Theology of Friendship and The Human Animal
Dorothy Dean
Chapter Eight: "I have called you friends": Friendship in the New Testament and Early Christianity
Liz Carmichael
Chapter Nine: Seeking God Together in Christ—Friendship in the Christian Life
Paul J. Wadell
Chapter Ten: Love, Friendship, and Solidarity: A Christian Theology of Friendship
Marcus Mescher
Chapter Eleven: A Path Through the Hell of War Trauma: Pavel Florensky's Theology of Friendship
Adam Tietje
Chapter Twelve: The Project of Friendship: Biblical, Butlerian, and Beer-Brewing Reflections
Brandy Daniels and Shelly Penton
Chapter Thirteen: Religion Has No Bo(u)nds?: Expanding the Dimensions of Religion to Account for the Attachment of Spiritual Friendship
Sarah Ann Bixler
About the Contributors
