xix, 460 pages ; 24 cm; Translation of: Christentum und Weltreligionen.; Toward dialogue / Hans Kung -- A. Islam and Christianity -- I. Muhammad and the Qur'an : prophecy and revelation -- 1. Islamic perspectives / Josef van Ess -- 2. A Christian response / Hans Kung -- II. Sunnites and Shi'ites : the state, law, and religion -- 1. Islamic perspectives / Josef van Ess -- 2. A Christian response / Hans Kung -- III. The image of God and Islamic mysticism, the image of man and society -- 1. Islamic perspectives / Josef van Ess -- 2. A Christian response / Hans Kung -- IV. Islam and the other religions : Jesus in the Qur'an -- 1. Islamic perspectives / Josef van Ess -- 2. A Christian response / Hans Kung -- B. Hinduism and Christianity -- I. What is Hinduism? : on the history of a religious tradition -- 1. Hindu perspectives / Heinrich von Stietencron -- 2. A Christian response / Hans Kung -- II. World and deity : conceptions of the Hindus -- 1. Hindu perspectives / Heinrich von Stietencron -- 2. A Christian response / Hans Kung -- III. Man and salvation in Hindu religions -- 1. Hindu perspectives / Heinrich von Stietencron -- 2. A Christian response / Hans Kung -- IV. Religious practice : rite, myth, and meditation -- 1. Hindu perspectives / Heinrich von Stietencron -- 2. A Christian response / Hans Kung -- C. Buddhism and Christianity -- I. The historical Buddha : his teaching as a way to redemption -- 1. Buddhist perspectives / Heinz Bechert -- 2. A Christian response / Hans Kung -- II. The Buddhist community and its earlier history -- 1. Buddhist perspectives / Heinz Bechert -- 2. A Christian response / Hans Kung -- III. From Theravada to pure land : forms of Buddhist thought and life -- 1. Buddhist perspectives / Heinz Bechert -- 2. A Christian response / Hans Kung -- IV. Buddhism and society : Buddhism in our time -- 1. Buddhist perspectives / Heinz Bechert -- 2. A Christian response / Hans Kung -- No world peace without religious peace / Hans Kung.; There is a significant connection between ecumenism and world peace. Anyone who feels a sense of obligation toward the world community, who takes seriously the fragility of all human arrangements, who has glimpsed the possibilities of technical and human error, must know what is at stake here. He must know that the threat to peace and the need to regulate it have long since burst through the dimensions of the specific, reginoal conflict, and have become global political problems on which the survival of us all depends. The most fanatical, the cruelest political struggles are those that have been colored, inspired, and legitimized by religion. To say this is not to reduce all political conflicts to religious ones, but to take seriously the fact that religions share in the responsibility for bringing peace to our torn and warring world.; 

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