Process Thought -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- General Introduction -- Part I: Dialogue and Intercultural Thought -- Introduction to Part I -- CHAPTER ONE - The Dialogue of Civilizations-a brief review -- Method of work -- On holiday from history -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER TWO - Is planetary civilization conceivable? -- Recapitulative memory -- Some historic cases: Germany and Russia -- Universal values -- Dialogical relations -- The play of mirrors -- References -- CHAPTER THREE - Intercultural thought, Bildung, and the onto-dialogical perspective -- The notion of philosophical and religious grammar and the onto-dialogical perspective -- Speculative grammar: the isomorphism of being, language, and understanding -- From universal grammar to the dynamics of onto-dialogical difference and the deciphering of grammar -- The islands of ontology and the interaction between them -- Ontological-grammatical ciphers, identity formation and existential-grammaticaldeciphering -- The onto-dialogical perspective: beyond relativistic pluralism -- The formation of the person - "Bildung" as theme for Eckhart and Goethe -- Self and otherness in relation to Bildung -- How can one engage in the existential deciphering of several grammars? -- In which sense is existential deciphering 'subjective'? A reflection on Hegel' notion of person -- Dialogue as social Bildung-selves mutually dreaming of and awakening each other -- From the otherness of divine logos to the openness of Existence - Hegel and Kierkegaard -- The self's becoming sleeping spirit as an existential possibility for the awakening of an other - the Boddhisatva logic presented by Hajime Tanabe -- The dialogical other.

The archetypical phenomenon of dialogue: individual thought and the sleeping into the other as entrance into the social world of Bildung -- Dialogue across ontologies with different content -- Dialogue as depth structure in different social spheres -- References -- CHAPTER FOUR - Dialogue and epistemological humility -- Zhuangzi on intolerance -- Situating the doctrines and responding to them -- Zhuangzi's insights for dialogues on global policy -- References -- CHAPTER FIVE - Intercultural dialogue and the processing of significance: cognition as orientation -- Elements of a phenomenology of (intercultural) dialogue -- The phenomenology of orientating oneself -- The theory of cognitive orientation -- A hypothesis -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Value Conflicts -- Introduction -- References -- CHAPTER SIX - Attachments and the moral psychology of value conflicts -- Values in conflict: a first pass -- Attachments -- Conflicts of values-second pass -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER SEVEN - Doing conflict research through a multi-method lens -- Doing Experiments -- Modelling conflict processes -- Collecting and analyzing survey data -- Performing case studies -- Analyzing documents -- Evaluating interventions -- Research conducted through a multi-method lens -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER EIGHT - How cultural contestation frames escalation and mitigation in ethnic conflict -- Two brief cases: France and South Africa -- Frames and cultural contestation -- Symbolic landscape -- Psychocultural narratives -- Psychocultural dramas -- Ritual and performance in cultural contestation -- Conclusions -- References -- CHAPTER NINE - Causing conflicts to continue -- Alternative lines of thought -- Some common explanations for conflict continuation -- The promise of entrapment theory -- Decisions to quit or continue?.

Factors that affect decisions to continue -- Concluding conundrum -- References -- CHAPTER TEN - The human quest for peace, rights, and justice -- Peace Systems -- Values -- Consensus and decision-making -- Expanding citizenship and belonging -- Memory -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Intercivilizational dialogue -- Introduction -- References -- CHAPTER ELEVEN - The philosophy and politics of dialogue -- The hermeneutics of civilizational dialogue -- The principles-or necessary conditions-of dialogue -- The multi-faceted politics of dialogue -- The principle of affirmative action in the domain of civilization -- Europe's multicultural challenge -- Co-existence / dialogue / alliance of civilizations -- Logic of war versus rhetoric of dialogue -- Conclusion: A philosophical reminder -- References -- CHAPTER TWELVE - Dialogue community as a promising path to global justice -- Alternative models of global politics -- World state, global government -- Political struggle and conflict -- References -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN - How to make a world -- Why Kantian peace fails to address Huntington's problem -- Why dialogue sometimes may bring us farther apart -- Why do people err knowingly? -- From methodological individualism to methodological relationalism -- World peace in terms of all-under-heaven -- References -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Struggle for democracy and pluralism in the Islamic world -- Democracy and intellectuals in the Middle East -- Reading Gandhi in the Middle East -- Democratization and the dignity of nonviolence in Iran -- The republican gesture in Iranian Green Movement -- The future of democracy in Muslim societies -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Religion and ideology -- Ideologization of religion and the four shifts -- What is Ideology? -- Vulgar Marxism as pre-existent diffused ideology -- The prototype of an ideologue : Alî Sharî'atî -- References.

Part IV: Interreligious dialogue -- Introduction -- References -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN - Does the claim of absoluteness lead into interreligious conflicts? -- Claims of exclusive, of universal and of final validity -- Exclusiveness -- Universality -- Finality -- Theological counterparts to the claims of exclusiveness, universality and finality -- Against exclusiveness -- Against universality -- Against finality -- References -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Certainty and diversity: a systematic approach to interreligious learning -- Religion -- Interreligious dialogue -- Education and religion: religious learning -- Interreligious learning -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Back to the Future: Buber, Levinas and the original encounter -- Martin Buber's organicism -- Emmanuel Levinas' pre-ontological ethics -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER NINETEEN - Following two courses at the same time - on Chinese religious pluralism -- What does it mean to "follow two courses at the same time"? -- The philosophical foundations of "following two courses at the same time" -- Process -- Openness -- Harmony -- Yin-Yang thinking -- Religious diversity and the organic whole -- Practical aspects of "following two courses at the same time" -- References -- CHAPTER TWENTY - Conflict and religion-secularity as a standard for authentic religion -- The Axial revolution -- Absolute transcendence and the transcendence of human nature -- Secularization -- Demythologization -- The dependent transcendence of human nature -- Interpersonal causality -- Dialogue of religions -- References -- Part V: Global dialogue in action -- Introduction -- References -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - The ecology of languages and education in an intercultural perspective -- The biological metaphor -- The nature of language loss and language endangerment -- Why does language loss matter?.

Knowledge about the natural world -- Knowledge about our shared patrimony -- Linguistic knowledge about how human beings construct reality -- Education and language endangerment -- References -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - Translation as a lesson in dialogue -- Overview of Translation Studies-a dialogue of theories -- The paraphrastic turn: the multicultural and multilingual school of languages -- Dialogue in translation, translation as dialogue -- References -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - Four meanings of climate change -- Lamenting Eden -- Presaging apocalypse -- Constructing Babel -- Celebrating Jubilee -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - Standing on Mount Lu: how economics has come to dominate our view of culture and sustainability -- and why it shouldn't -- Uncovering economics' pre-analytic vision -- An alternate vision -- Rethinking the core idea of sustainability -- References -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy: a brief review -- Why dialogue? -- Building structures of dialogue -- Three Examples -- Epilogue -- Afterthought-The problem of the many -- Name index -- Subject index.