RELIGION AND RELIGIONS

This second volume of Raimon Panikkar’s Opera Omnia presents the author’s reflections on religion today as well as in many other historical periods. Because no particular religion can claim to fulfil the universal range of human experience, Panikkar argues that in a globalized world a kind of religious pluralism is a necessary reality, and dialogue between different religions, cultures and worldviews is an imperative of our time.
The first section of this volume expands on the concept of religion from different viewpoints and develops some of the most universal aspects of religiosity. The second deals with comparative religion and with the religious philosophy of encounter, while the third section includes more specific topics, including the body and medicine, because religion reconnects not just humanity to God, but also the spirit to the body.

INDEX OF ORIGINAL TEXTS IN VOLUME II

“Introduction” contains a reviewed part of “Have Religions the Monopoly on Religion?” in “Journal of Ecumenical Studies”, XI, 3, Philadelphia 1974, pp. 515-517.

Religion and Religions. – The functional, essential and existential concurrence of religions. A philosophical study on the dynamic and historical nature of religion, from an unpublished text.

Religione e religioni. – Concordanza funzionale, essenziale ed esistenziale delle religioni. Studio filosofico sulla natura storica e dinamica della religione. Presentation by Card. Franz Köning, Morcelliana, Brescia 1964.

“Meditation on Melchizedek”: or. ed. “Meditación sobre Melquisedec”, “Nuestro Tempo”, n. 102, Pamplona 1962, pp. 675-695. Published in Italian in Maya e Apocalisse – L’incontro dell’induismo e del cristianesimo, Abete, Roma 1966, cap. 9

“The Invisible Harmony: a Universal Theory of Religion or a Cosmic Confidence in Reality?” in “Interculture”, n. 108, Montreal 1990, pp. 45-78.

“The Religion of the Future or The Crisis of the Concept of Religion”: or.ed. “La Religione del futuro o la crisi del concetto di religione. La religiosità umana”. “Civiltà delle macchine”, XXVII, 4/6, Roma 1979, pp. 166-171.

“Every Authentic Religion is a Way to Salvation”: in Hinduism and Christianity, Student World, Geneva 1962, pp. 304-323.

“Nine Ways not to Talk about God”: or. ed. “Novenario sobre Dios”, “El Ciervo”, XXXIX, 489, Barcelona 1991, pp. 9-10; in English “Nine Ways not to Talk about God”, Cross Currents, New York 1997, 47,2, pp. 149-153.

“Are There Anonymous Religions? The Name and the Thing”: or. ed. “The Notion of ‘Religion’ in Comparative Research”. Selected Proceedings of the XVIth. Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Rome 3-8/IX/, L’Herma, Roma 1990, pp. 889-894.

“God in Religions”: or. ed. Dios en las religiones, Misión Abierta, 5-6, Madrid 1985.

“Aporias in the Comparative Philosophy of Religion”: in “Man and World”, XIII 3-4, The Hague, Boston, London 1980, pp. 357-383.

“The Ambiguity of the Science of Comparative Religions. Noēma and Pisteuma”: in S.J.,S. Painadath, S.J.- Leonard Fernando S.J. (eds.), “Co-worker for your Joy”. Festschrift in honour of George Gispert-Sauch, ISPCK, Delhi 2006, pp. 25-36.

“Philosophy of Religion in the Encounter of Culture”: in “Contemporary Philosophy: A Survey”, (ed. R. Klibansky),.

“The Scandal of Religions”: or. ed. “L’escàndol de les religions” “Diàleg entre les religions. Textos fonamentals”, Trotta, Madrid 2002, pp. 167-175.

“The Challenge of the Study of Religion”: in “The Teillard Review”, XXV, 3, London 1990.

“Reflections on Religion and Europe”: or. ed. “Que religión para Europa?”, “La vanguardia”, 14 de julio, Barcelona 1991, p. 30.

“Religion and the Body”: or. ed. Religión y cuerpo. in Estética y religión, El discurso del cuerpo y los sentidos, (Ed. Amador Vega, J.A. Rodríguez Tous, Raquel Bouso), “Revista de Filosofía”, Barcelona 1998, pp.11-48.

“Medicine and Religion”: or. ed. Medicina y Religión “Jano”, XXI, 737, Madrid, pp. 12-48; in English “Medicine and Religion”, Interculture, 125, Montreal 1994, pp. 1-39.