Holy in a Pluralistic World

Ulrich Rosenhagen is Director of the Center for Religion and Global Citizenry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in 2012 and is 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 Dialogue with Charles Cohen and Paul Knitter (Orbis, 2017). He has written in academic and non-academic journals on Jewish-Christian relations, Social Protestantism, and interreligious dialogue. His main interests are interreligious literacy, religion and social justice, and the work of Rudolf Otto.Gregory 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. Dr. Alles has served as President of the North American Association for the Study of Religions. His research has focused widely on rhetoric in Greek and Sanskrit epic, the history of the study of religions in Germany, particularly the work of Rudolf Otto, the study of religions in a global context, and most recently on adivasi (tribal) people in Gujarat, India, known as Rathvas. 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 as well as a number of articles.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionTransporting Rudolf Otto into the 21st Century 1-8, Ulrich Rosenhagen, Gregory D. AllesPart 1: Theological, Philosophical and Contextual Considerations 1. Rudolf Otto’s Post-Kantian Platonism 11-32, Todd Gooch2. Liberal Piety: Rudolf Otto and the Protestant Liberal Theology of his Age 33-61, Peter Schüz3. Religious League of Humanity and Universal Protestant Senate: Rudolf Otto’s Interreligious Critique of Nathan Söderblom and the Ecumenical Movement 62-98, Ulrich Rosenhagen4. Rudolf Otto and the Theory of Religion, 99-112, Robert C. NevillePart 2: Otto and “The Religions”5. Rudolf Otto and the Problem of Categories 115-134, Gregory D. Alles6. Nostalgia, Trauma, and the Numinous: Twentieth-Century Jewish Readings of Rudolf Otto’s Das Heilige 135-159, Melissa Raphael-Levine7. Wonderstruck: Otto, Vision, and Modern Hinduism 160-183, Tulasi Srinivas8. Looking Bodhidharma in the Eye: The Beginnings of Otto’s Interreligious Encounters with Japanese Buddhists 184-212, Katja Triplett9. The Idea of the Holy in African Religions 213-229, Robert M. BaumPart 3: Contemporary Applications10. The Numinous in Theologies of Modern Architecture 233-256, Karla Britton11. Devotional Poetry’s Mysterium Tremendum 257-279, Constance Furey12. Rudolf Otto and the Study of Religion and Violence: Preserving the Numinous 280-298, Michael Jerryson13. The Continuing Relevance of Rudolf Otto for Theology and Religious Studies, 299-308, Jörg LausterEnd MatterIndex 309-311