Inclusion or Exclusion in the Sacred Texts and Human Contexts

Part I. Inclusion or Exclusion in the Sacred Texts Traditions.- Chapter 1. A Framework for Inclusion and Exclusion in Jewish Law and Practice.- Chapter 2. Does EVERYONE get to ride the “Great Vehicle”?–Exclusive Inclusivism in the Lotus Sūtra.- Chapter 3. Inclusive Evangelicalism? Towards an Ontology of Inclusion in Evangelical Christian Traditions.- Chapter 4. Revisiting Madinah Pact: Towards Rebuilding an Ideal Inclusive Society.- Chapter 5. Confucian Exclusivism: A Challenge to Confucian Exemplarist Morality.- Part II. Comparative Studies of Inclusion or Exclusion in Religious Traditions.- Chapter 6. Legitimating the Other’s Wisdom for Common Cause: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s Palm Sunday: Sermon on Mohandas K. Gandhi.- Chapter 7. Encountering God’s Grace in Islam: A Christian Reading of the Forty Hadith of Nawawī.- Chapter 8. From Exodus to Hizmet: Redefining Other and Self in Thought and Action.- Chapter 9. All Lovers are Welcome: Rumi and the Spirituality of Hospitality in Fihi ma fihi.- Part III. Contemporary Approaches to Inclusion or Exclusion in Religious Traditions.- Chapter 10. Search for Belongingness: A Social Rhetorical Reading on Migration in the Bible.- Chapter 11. Al-Walā’ Wa-Al-Barā’: The Principle of Loyalty to Muslims and Disavowal of Non-Muslims. Theorized by Ibn Taymiyya, Adopted and Developed by Early Wahhabism.- Chapter 12. Multiple Political Discourses in the Islamic Tradition.- Chapter 13. The Hateful Rhetoric against Muslims and the Authority-making of Islamic Identity.- Chapter 14. Religious Identity in a Pluralistic Age: The Paradox of Being Simultaneously Rooted and Open.