Editorial Team Academic Editor: Prof Paul Weller - Executive Editor: Ozcan Keles Assistant Editors: Mustafa Cakmak, Dr Mustafa Demir, Dr Omer Sener, Frances Sleap, Editorial Board Prof Ronald Arnett Prof Eddie Halpin Prof Ali Paya Duquesne University Leeds Metropolitan University University of Westminster Prof Michael Barnes Dr Carool Kersten Dr Fabio Petito Heythrop College Kings College London University of Sussex Prof Joseph Camilleri Dr Simon Keyes Prof Simon Robinson La Trobe University St Ethelburga’s Centre Leeds Metropolitan University Prof Donal Carbaugh Prof Ian Linden Dr Erkan Toguslu University of Massachusetts Amherst Tony Blair Faith Foundation University of KU Leuven Prof Tony Evans Dr Johnston McMaster Prof Pnina Werbner Winchester University Trinity College Dublin Keele University Dr Cem Erbil Dr Karim Murji Dr Nicholas Wood Dialogue Society Open University Oxford University Prof Max Farrar Prof Alpaslan Ozerdem Leeds Metropolitan University Coventry University --------------------------------- The Editors appreciate comments and feedback from readers. They also value any help in increasing circulation in order to fulfil the Journal’s objective, which is to bring together a body of original scholarship on the theory and practice of dialogue that can be critically appraised and discussed. Aim and Scope The Journal of Dialogue Studies is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic journal published twice a year. Its aim is to study the theory and practice of dialogue, understood provisionally as: meaningful interaction and exchange between people (often of different social, cultural, political, religious or professional groups) who come together through various kinds of conversations or activities with a view to increased understanding. The Journal is published by the Institute for Dialogue Studies, the academic platform of the Dialogue Society. 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Editorial Team Academic Editor: Prof Paul Weller - Executive Editor: Ozcan Keles Assistant Editors: Mustafa Cakmak, Dr Mustafa Demir, Dr Omer Sener, Frances Sleap, Editorial Board Prof Ronald Arnett Prof Eddie Halpin Prof Ali Paya Duquesne University Leeds Metropolitan University University of Westminster Prof Michael Barnes Dr Carool Kersten Dr Fabio Petito Heythrop College Kings College London University of Sussex Prof Joseph Camilleri Dr Simon Keyes Prof Simon Robinson La Trobe University St Ethelburga’s Centre Leeds Metropolitan University Prof Donal Carbaugh Prof Ian Linden Dr Erkan Toguslu University of Massachusetts Amherst Tony Blair Faith Foundation University of KU Leuven Prof Tony Evans Dr Johnston McMaster Prof Pnina Werbner Winchester University Trinity College Dublin Keele University Dr Cem Erbil Dr Karim Murji Dr Nicholas Wood Dialogue Society Open University Oxford University Prof Max Farrar Prof Alpaslan Ozerdem Leeds Metropolitan University Coventry University --------------------------------- The Editors appreciate comments and feedback from readers. They also value any help in increasing circulation in order to fulfil the Journal’s objective, which is to bring together a body of original scholarship on the theory and practice of dialogue that can be critically appraised and discussed. Aim and Scope The Journal of Dialogue Studies is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic journal published twice a year. Its aim is to study the theory and practice of dialogue, understood provisionally as: meaningful interaction and exchange between people (often of different social, cultural, political, religious or professional groups) who come together through various kinds of conversations or activities with a view to increased understanding. The Journal is published by the Institute for Dialogue Studies, the academic platform of the Dialogue Society. Submission and Editorial Correspondence Manuscripts submitted to the Journal for publication must be original, meet the standards and conventions of scholarly publication, and must not be simultaneously under consideration by another journal. Manuscripts should be presented in the form and style set out in the Journal’s Style Guide. For further information and Style Guide please visit www.dialoguestudies.org. To get in touch please email [email protected]. Subscription The Journal of Dialogue Studies is published twice yearly, in spring and autumn. Annual subscription – Institutions: £30 + p&p; Individuals: £20 + p&p; Students/Concessions: £15 + p&p. For further information or to subscribe please email [email protected]. Except where otherwise noted, the authors of papers and reviews alone are responsible for the opinions expressed therein. Journal of Dialogue Studies Volume 4 Autumn 2016 The Journal of Dialogue Studies is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic journal published twice a year by INSTITUTE the Institute of Dialogue Studies, a subsidiary body of the for DIALOGUE Dialogue Society, which undertakes the Society’s academic STUDIES work including research, codelivery of the MA in Dialogue Studies, academic workshops and publications. The Dialogue Society is a registered charity, established in London in 1999, with the aim of advancing social cohesion CENTRE by connecting communities, empowering people to engage for COMMUNITY and contributing to the development of ideas on dialogue. ENGAGEMENT It operates nation-wide with regional branches across the UK. Through discussion forums, courses, capacity building publications and outreach it enables people to venture across boundaries of religion, culture and social class. It provides a platform where people can meet to share narratives and CENTRE for perspectives, discover the values they have in common and POLICY be at ease with their differences. OUTREACH CONNECTING COMMUNITIES EMPOWERING ENGAGEMENT INSPIRING IDEAS Journal of Dialogue Studies Autumn 2016 Volume 4 DIALOGUE First published in Great Britain 2017 SOCIETY © Dialogue Society 2017 LONDON 1999 All rights reserved. Except for downloading and storing this publication from the Dialogue Society website for personal use. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored or made Registered Charity available on any information storage and retrieval system No: 1117039 without prior written permission from the publisher. www.DialogueSociety.org ISSN 2054-3123 Contents ARTICLES Gadamer, Play, and Interreligious Dialogue as the Opening of Horizons Paul Hedges .......................................................................................... 5 Faith, Peace Building, and Intra-Community Dialogue in South Yorkshire, UK Richard Slade and Stephanie Steels ...................................................... 27 Problematizing Whiteness: A Woman of Color and a White Woman Discuss Race and Research Shametrice Davis and Chris Linder ..................................................... 49 Deliberative Democracy: A Binding Methodology? Peter Emerson ..................................................................................... 69 ‘Lived Faith’ as an Approach to Inter-Religious Dialogue – Designing for Discussion Sian Nicholas ..................................................................................... 89 Reflections on GCGI: Creating a Culture of Dialogue, Collaboration, and Cooperation for the Common Good Kamran Mofid ................................................................................. 101 BOOK REVIEW Ethics in Interfaith Dialogue Johnston McMaster Reviewed by O. Shener ...................................................................... 111 Gadamer, Play, and Interreligious Dialogue as the Opening of Horizons Paul Hedges This paper explores the potential use of Gadamer’s hermeneutical concept of play as a tool to understand and explore interreligious dialogue. In particular it brings this into a discussion about interreligious dialogue understood as theological or spiritual encounter and exchange, especially in the form of Comparative Theology. Thinkers like David Tracy and Ludwig Wittgenstein are engaged for their related discussions, while Gadamer’s own concept of the Fusion of Horizons, which it is argued is best expressed as the Opening of Horizons in this context, is used to show how and why such dialogue is justified in hermeneutical theory. It is argued that play provides a useful model both for understanding the seriousness of interreligious dialogue but also how it stands apart from yet elides with many traditional perspectives within religious traditions. Keywords: Hans-Georg Gadamer, interreligious dialogue, hermeneutics, Ludwig Wittgenstein, play, fusion of horizons, comparative theology Introduction In this paper I will explore