Holy in a Pluralistic World

Ulrich Rosenhagen is Director of the Center for Religion and Global Citizenry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Brudermord, Freiheitsdrang, Weltenrichter: Religiöse Kommunikation und öffentliche Theologie in der amerikanischen Revolutionsepoche (De Gruyter, 2015). He edited Nostra Aetate and the Future of Interreligious Dialoguewith Charles Cohen and Paul Knitter (Orbis, 2017). Gregory D. Alles is professor of religious studies at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. He is co-editor of Numen, the journal of the International Association for the History of Religions, and a member of the steering committee of the Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit of the American Academy of Religion. He edited Religious Studies: A Global View and is author of The Iliad, The Ramayana, and the Work of Religion: Failed Persuasion and Religious Mystification.

• Introduction: Transporting Rudolf Otto into the 21st CenturyUlrich Rosenhagen and Gregory D. AllesTheological, Philosophical, and Contextual Considerations1. Rudolf Otto’s Post-Kantian PlatonismTodd Gooch, Eastern Kentucky University2. Liberal Piety: Rudolf Otto and the Protestant Liberal Theology of His AgePeter Schüz, Ludwig Maximilians University 3. Religious League of Humanity and Universal Protestant Senate:Rudolf Otto’s Interreligious Critique of Nathan Söderblom and theEcumenical MovementUlrich Rosenhagen4. Rudolf Otto and the Theory of ReligionRobert Cummings Neville, Boston UniversityRudolf Otto and “The Religions”5. Rudolf Otto and the Problem of CategoriesGregory D. Alles6. Nostalgia, Trauma, and the Numinous: Twentieth-Century JewishReadings of Rudolf Otto’s Das HeiligeMelissa Raphael, University of Gloucestershire7. Wonderstruck: Otto, Vision, and Modern HinduismTulasi Srinivas, Emerson College, Massachusetts8. Looking Bodhidharma in the Eye: The Beginnings of Otto’sInterreligious Encounters with Japanese BuddhistsKatja Triplett, University of Leopzig9. The Idea of the Holy in African ReligionsRobert M. Baum, Dartmouth CollegeContemporary Applications10. The Numinous in Theologies of Modern ArchitectureKarla Cavarra Britton, Diné College, Arizona 11. Devotional Poetry’s Mysterium TremendumConstance M. Furey, Indiana University12. Rudolf Otto and the Study of Religion and Violence: Preserving theNuminousMichael Jerryson, Youngstown University13. The Continuing Relevance of Rudolf Otto for Theology and Religious StudiesJörg Lauster, Ludwig Maximilians University