Hope and Otherness: Christian Eschatology in an Interreligious Horizon

My project is entitled Hope and Otherness and treats contemporary Christian eschatology and religious otherness. Given the religious plurality, how is hope - or lack of hope - expressed for the adherents of other religious traditions?

My dissertation project has the preliminary title ’Hope and Otherness: Christian Eschatology in an Interreligious Horizon’ and deals with Christian eschatological expectations in light of other religious traditions. A question of interest to me is: what place is given the religious Other in contemporary eschatologies and to what extent is there a place for the Other as other? Borrowing from postcolonial and feminist theories, I am challenging what I conceive of as an ‘allergy’ towards otherness and differences in contemporary Christian eschatologies. I am convinced that theological research should be performed in conversation with other religious traditions. This is one reason why I work with contemporary Christian, Muslim and Jewish theologians, among them Jürgen Moltmann, Joseph Ratzinger, Farid Esack, Tariq Ramadan, Jonathan Sacks and David Novak.