Religious Stereotyping and Interreligious Relations

317 Pages·2013·1.288 MB·English

by  Jesper Svartvik, Jakob Wirén

Religious Stereotyping and
Interreligious Relations
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Religious Stereotyping and
Interreligious Relations
Edited by
Jesper Svartvik and Jakob Wir é n
RELIGIOUS STEREOTYPING AND INTERRELIGIOUS RELATIONS
Copyright © Jesper Svartvik and Jakob Wirén, 2013.
All rights reserved.
First published in 2013 by
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Religious stereotyping and interreligious relations / Jesper Svartvik &
Jakob Wiren (eds.).
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–1–137–34460–1 (alk. paper)
1. Toleration—Religious aspects. 2. Religious tolerance. 3. Discrimination—
Religious aspects. 4. Religious discrimination. 5. Stereotypes (Social psychology)
6. Religions—Relations. I. Svartvik, Jesper, editor of compilation.
BL640.R447 2013
201(cid:2).5—dc22 2013006428
A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library.
Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India.
First edition: August 2013
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Preface i x
Notes on Contributors xi
1 Introduction: “For Six Strange Weeks They Had Acted As If They
Were Friends” 1
Jesper Svartvik
Part I Methodological Considerations
2 Public Theology: Reflection on the Future of the Discourse 21
James Haire
3 Love, Sexual Stereotypes, and Confidence 33
Pamela Sue Anderson
4 The Ambiguous Power of Prejudice and Love 45
Werner G. Jeanrond
5 Gordon W. Allport’s Scholarship Revisited 55
Jan Hermanson
Part II Christian-Muslim Relations
6 Reflections on Public, Private, and the Secular Space 63
Mona Siddiqui
7 Relationship between Stereotyping and the Place of Religion in
the Public Sphere 75
Blandine Ch é lini-Pont
8 Occidentalism 8 5
Mohammad Fazlhashemi
9 The Image of Islam and Muslims in the Swedish Evangelical Press 97
Kristian Steiner
10 Stereotypes in Christian Theology: Methodological and
Eschatological Aspects 1 15
Jakob Wir é n
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11 The Challenge for Tolerance and Peaceful Coexistence between
Christians and Muslims in Northern Nigeria 123
Thaddeus B. Umaru
Part III Jewish-Christian Relations
12 Catholic-Jewish Reconciliation: From Theology to Diplomacy 137
Raymond Cohen
13 “You Only Have I Known”: Reading the Hebrew Bible as
Christians in Light of the Partiality of God for Israel 153
Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos
14 Interfaith Monologue: The Presbyterian Church in Canada’s
Statement of Relationship with the Jewish People 161
Mark Godin
15 Othering the Jews from the Church Pulpit 171
Gunnar Haaland
16 How Can We Be “Both Loyal and Open?” Some Thoughts on
Religious Education and Prejudice 183
Deborah Weissman
Part IV Israeli-Palestinian Relations
17 The Theological Contribution of the Palestinian Kairos Document 195
Yohanna Katanacho
18 Old Whines with New Spins 207
Peter A. Pettit
19 Recent Halakhic Discourse in Israel Encouraging Racism and Violence 221
Ophir Yarden
Part V Case Studies
20 Joseph Goebbels, Kristina S ö derbaum, and J ud S ü ss (1940): Seventy
Years Later 2 35
Erik Hedling
21 Asher Lev at the Israel Museum: Stereotyping Art and Craft 247
Alana M. Vincent
22 Can Stereotyping Be Banned? Pastor Å ke Green and the Limits and
Limitations of the Freedom of Expression 255
Linde Lindkvist
Bibliography 2 65
Index 2 83
Figures and Tables
Figures
15.1 Jesus’s Antagonists 173
15.2 Zacchaeus the Tax Collector 174
15.3 The Pre-Christian Paul 175
Tables
9.1 Selected editorials 2006–2007 (2006) 98
9.2a Diagnosis, the motive for editorials with a Muslim presence in
V ä rlden idag 2006–2007 (2006) 100
9.2b Diagnosis, the motive for editorials with a Muslim presence in
Dagen 2006–2007 (2006) 101
9.3 The roles of the Muslim actors in relation to the problems and
diagnoses of the editorials (percent and number) 102
9.4a Labels denoting Muslim actors in V ä rlden idag 2006–2007
(percent and number) N = 608 103
9.4b Labels denoting Muslim actors in Dagen 2006–2007
(percent and number) N = 222 103
9.5a The use of complements describing Muslims in V ä rlden idag
2006–2007 (percent and number) N = 104 104
9.5b The use of complements describing Muslims in Dagen 2006–2007
(percent and number) N = 34 104
9.6a The behavior of Muslim actors in V ä rlden idag 2006–2007 N = 706
(percent and number) 106
9.6b The behavior of Muslim actors in Dagen 2006–2007 N = 219
(percent and number) 106
9.7 The character of nouns preceded by the adjectives Muslim and
Islamic (percent and number) 107
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Preface
T
his book owes its existence to an international conference in Lund, Sweden (April
10–13, 2011), cohosted by the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund
University and the Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem. We, the conference
organizers and editors of this book, would like to thank our keynote speakers for
kindly accepting our invitations, and are truly indebted to our short-paper presenters
for submitting interesting papers on a wide range of important issues. Special men-
tion must be made of H å kan Bengtsson, Carin Gardbring, Gö ran Larsson, Fredrik
Lindstr ö m, Inger Nebel, Michael Swirsky, Axel Wernhoff, and our anonymous peer-
reviewers, who provided numerous and much appreciated suggestions to help the
contributors improve their articles. We also wish to thank Jaya Reddy for correcting
and improving the English in the articles. It has been a pleasure working with him.
Finally, we also wish to thank Suzanne Sherman Aboulfadl, Madeleine Crum, Burke
Gerstenschlager, Deepa John, and Lani Oshima at Palgrave Macmillan for a stimu-
lating cooperation.
Last but not least, we express our deep gratitude to two foundations: the Birgit
and Sven H å kan Ohlsson’s Foundation and the Signe and Oscar Krook’s Foundation;
without their most generous support, arranging the conference and publishing this
book would have been impossible.
The four-day conference afforded us an opportunity for mutual listening and
learning. It is our fervent wish that this book will help a wider audience to detect
in our religious and cultural heritages that which may provide us not only with the
means to oppose stereotyping and prejudice, but with resources for a renewed life
as well, so that we may see, in the words of Dylan Thomas, “[also] our best sides,
not [only] our worst.”
Jerusalem and Lund, November 6, 2011
(The week of Shabbat Lekh Lekha , All Saints’ Day, and ‘ eid al-Adha )
JESPER SVARTVIK
JAKOB WIR É N