CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES I, CULTURE AND VALUES, VOLUME 21

SERIES IIA, ISLAM, VOLUME 12

 

 

RELIGION and COOPERATION

between CIVILIZATIONS

 

Islamic and Christian Cultures

in a Global Horizon

 

 

by

GEORGE F. McLEAN

 

CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION

PART I. HERMENEUTICS AS THE INTERPRETATION AND INTERCHANGE OF CULTURES

 

Chapter I. Hermeneutics of Cultural Traditions and Their Religious Roots

 

Chapter II. Cultural Traditions as Prospective and Progressive: The Diachronic Dimension (Tashkent Lecture)

 

Chapter III. Hermeneutics and Cultures (Mula Sadra Conference, Tehran)

 

PART II. GLOBALIZATION AS RELATIONS BETWEEN CULTURES

 

Chapter IV. Nicholas of Cusa: an Epistemology and Metaphysics for Globalization as Diversity in Unity (Conference on the Philosophical Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization, Boston)

 

PART III. RELIGION AND COOPERATION BETWEEN PEOPLES AND CULTURES

 

Chapter V. Cultures, Religions and Relations between Peoples

 

Chapter VI. The Relation between Islamic and Christian Cultures (Conference on East-West Dialogue, Bulgaria)

 

Chapter VII. Islam as Seen from the Christian West (al-Azhar University, Cairo)

 

Chapter VIII. Samuel Huntington and the Religious Basis for Civilization (Cultural Research Bureau, Tehran)

 

Chapter IX. Conflict or Cooperation between Civilizations (Center for Dialogue among Civilizations, Tehran)