
Na stronie od 2024-04-01
31/03/2024 r.
Idolatry: An Interreligous Conversation
Idolatry is the mirror image of God. If we seek to understand God and how to approach him, idolatry serves us as the mirror image of what we seek to avoid. Idolatry has also been the category by means of which religions invalidate other religions, and in this sense has an important history in Jewish usage. Following the publication of Alon Goshen-Gottstein's, Same God, Other god: Judaism, Hinduism and the Question of Idolatry (Palgrave, 2017), the question arose: if other religions are not viewed through the lens of idolatry, what does the category mean to us? To this end, a conversation among Jewish thinkers and theologians was convened. Its fruits are featured in Idolatry: A Contemporary Jewish Conversation (Academic Studies Press, 2023).