Marianne Moyaert is the Fenna Diemer Lindeboom Chair of Comparative Theology and Hermeneutics of Interreligious Dialogue at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

• Chapter One: Ricoeur and the Unfulfilled Promise of HumanismChapter Two: Religion and Symbolic ViolenceChapter Three: Ricoeur and Küng on the Impossibility of a Global Ethic Chapter Four: Fragile Religious IdentitiesChapter Five: Translating Religions: Toward a Hermeneutics of Interreligious HospitalityChapter Six: Comparative Theology as Vulnerable Theology

In Response to the Religious Other is a masterful and multifaceted resource for the theoretical grounding of interreligious encounter in the twenty-first century. With erudition, insight, and imagination, Marianne Moyaert brings Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutic to bear on the work of interreligious understanding. Scholars will welcome this affirmation of his contribution to the global conversation, and practitioners of comparative theology will by intrigued by and appreciative of Moyaert's use of Ricoeur in contextualizing their work. All of us who are disturbed by the religious violence and passions of our era will welcome Moyaert’s proposal of vulnerability and hospitality as intellectual and spiritual virtues urgently required today.