This issue of CIRPIT REVIEW features the Cirpit Proceedings of three Conferences promoted by Cirpit Association in the year 2012, in collaboration with public and private institutions, universities and Philosophical Departments (CISRECO – ROMA TRE Univ, SIENA Univ.), which saw the participation of several Italian and foreign scholars of intercultural philosophy and inter-religious dialogue (Giacomo Marramao, Giuliano Boccali, V.Pérez Prieto, S.Gasparetti Landolfi, Giangiorgio Pasqualotto, Franz Martin Wimmer, Joseph Prabhu, Piergiorgio Solinas, Young-chan Ro, Michiko Yusa, Ralph Weber, Marcello Ghilardi, Giorgio Taffon, Augusto Cavadi, Achille Rossi, Giuseppe Cognetti, Roberta Cappellini). The Review also features contributions by Pietro Barcellona, Jacob Parappally, Gabriele Piana, Gianni Vacchelli, Filippo Dellanoce. The topics discussed regard the actual problems and perspectives of interculturality, pluralism and dialogue, focusing on the many different visions of the world, cultures, philosophies , behaviors, values, and with the problem of peace: the real practical question of human coexistence on the planet .Questo numero della Cirpit Review 4/2013 accoglie gli Atti di tre Convegni promossi dall’Associazione Cirpit, in collaborazione con alcune istituzioni pubbliche e private, università e dipartimenti filosofici (CISRECO -. Università ROMA TRE, Università di SIENA), che hanno visto la partecipazione di diversi studiosi italiani e stranieri di filosofia interculturale e di dialogo interreligioso (Giacomo Marramao, Giuliano Boccali, V.Pérez Prieto, S.Gasparetti Landolfi, Giangiorgio Pasqualotto, Franz Martin Wimmer, Joseph Prabhu, Piergiorgio Solinas, Young-chan Ro, Michiko Yusa , Ralph Weber, Marcello Ghilardi, Giorgio Taffon, Augusto Cavadi, Achille Rossi, Giuseppe Cognetti, Roberta Cappellini). La rassegna ospita anche i contributi di Pietro Barcellona, Jacob Parappally, Gabriele Piana, Gianni Vacchelli, Filippo Dellanoce. Gli argomenti trattati riguardano gli attuali problemi e prospettive relative all’interculturalità, al pluralismo e al dialogo e sono incentrati sulle molteplici visioni del mondo, culture, filosofie, comportamenti, valori e sul problema della pace: la vera questione pratica della convivenza umana sul pianeta .

Raimon Panikkar: A Companion to his Life and Thought is a guide to the life, work and thought of Raimon Panikkar, a self-professed Buddhist-Christian-Hindu philosopher and theologian. A man of deep and wide learning and an extremely prolific author, Panikkar is equally at home in various religious and cultural traditions and embodies in himself the ideals of intercultural, intrareligious, and interreligious dialogues. This book explicates Panikkar's basic vision of life as the harmonious rhythm of divinity, humanity, and the cosmos, which he terms cosmotheandrism, and shows how it permeates and illumines his articulations of the central Christian doctrines. Given the complexity and difficulty of Panikkar's thought this book is a welcome companion for a course on Panikkar and for a general reader who wishes to understand one of the most profound and orginal thinkers of our time.

Five of the six papers below were presented at a symposium in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in San Diego on November 21, 2014. The AAR meeting has for long been an annual feature, where scholars of religion gather from around the world to discuss various aspects of religion across time and space and culture. In conjunction with the Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP), members of both societies have thought the AAR meetings a good opportunity to hold an annual meeting of Panikkar scholars On this particular occasion, Young-chan Ro and Joseph Prabhu invited contributions to two panels, one for more senior scholars and the other for scholars and researchers, who engaged with Panikkar either as part of their doctoral dissertations or as part of their ongoing research. The papers by Mark Banas, Erik Ranstrom, Anselm Min, Peter Phan, and Young-chan Ro represent revised versions of the presentations made in the San Diego symposium. Some parts of the paper by Joseph Prabhu were presented at the AAR/SACP symposium, but the full paper provided here draws on an essay presented at another Panikkar conference.The idea both of the call for papers and the decision to publish some of them is at least three-fold: 1. to encourage collaboration and dialogue between more senior scholars and those who are starting out on their study of Panikkar; 2. to make available some of the fruits of such research and publication; and 3. to develop, in general, the field of Panikkar Studies. Those who have worked in the field know that Panikkar is a challenging author both because of the complexity of his ideas spanning many disciplines, times, and cultures, and also because of his equally complex mode of expression. It is encouraging to note that interest in Panikkar’s thought is indeed growing and these papers are one indication of that interest.What follow are short thematic introductions to each of the papers.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the Symposium on the Dialogical Dialogue and Raimon Panikkar held in Baltimore, November 2013. The idea grew into two separate events, both held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in Baltimore in November 2013. One was the Friday symposium, under the auspices of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, on the dialogical philosophy of Raimon Panikkar (November 22). The other event was the Roundtable panel for the Comparative Studies in Religion Section of the AAR on the legacy of Panikkar's imparative study of religion (November 24), presided by Gerald James Larson (UC Santa Barbara) . The Presenters were Milena Carrara Pavan (President of Vivarium), John Blackman (practicing lawyer, San Francisco), Bret W. Davis (Loyola University Maryland), Roberta Cappellini (President, CIRPIT), Purushottama Bilimoria (University of Melbourne, UC Berkeley), Abraham Vélez de Cea (Eastern Kentucky University), Joseph Prabhu (California State University Los Angeles), Francis Clooney (Harvard University), Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame), Young-Chan Ro (George Mason University & University of Notre Dame), Michiko Yusa (Western Washington University), Catherine Cornille (Boston College). This volume is dedicated to the enduring memory of Scott Thomas Eastham.

An Advaitic Modernity?: Raimon Panikkar and Philosophical Theology poses Raimon Panikkar as a stimulating dialogue partner in postmodern philosophical theology who can help us rethink the relationship between transcendence and immanence through an advaitic critique of modernity. Andrew D. Thrasher argues that Panikkar advaitic critique of modernity may transform several discourses, such as how Panikkar’s cosmotheandric metaphysics may reshape a theology of religion and offer a religious interpretation of a relational ontology that builds on the Heideggerian ontological tradition and how Panikkar’s metaphysics solves problems in Heidegger’s ontology.

Our contemporary world is fast becoming religiously diverse in a variety of ways. Thanks to globalization and migration, to mention only two current worldwide trends, people of diverse and sometimes mutually hostile faiths are now sharing neighborhoods and encountering one another's religious traditions on a daily basis. For scholars in religious studies and theology the issue to be examined is whether religious diversity is merely the result of historical development and social interaction, or whether it is inherent in the object of belief--part of the very structure of faith and our attempts to understand and express it. The essays in this volume range from explorations of the impact of religious diversity on religious studies to examples of interfaith encounter and dialogue, and current debates on Christian theology of religion. These essays examine not only the theoretical issues posed by religious pluralism to the study of religion and Christian theology but also concrete cases in which religious pluralism has been a bone of contention. Together, they open up new vistas for further conversation on the nature and development of religious pluralism.

This book is a tributes to Scott Thomas Eastham from his family, former students and colleagues at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, where he lectured in the department of English and Media Studies for 19 years.