Interdisciplinary approaches from the fields of Religious Studies, Literary Studies, Sociology, Political Theory, and studies on emotion make the concept of „religious positionings“ a helpful tool for the analysis of the dynamics of interreligious diversity and difference – a tool that can also be brought into dialogue with reflections within the field of religious pedagogics about „positionality“ in multireligious and multicultural contexts. By recurring to the examples of Martin Buber, Joseph Soloveitchik, Abraham J. Heschel and Menachem Fisch, this essay presents different facets of the way Jewish religious philosophy in the twentieth century has confronted the challenge of religious difference. The focus is on a concept that interprets dialogical „positioning“ as a dynamic interplay between religious positionality, respect for and openness with regard to the position of the Other, and epistemic humility in the sense of an awareness of the limits of religious claims for truth.
Jewish religious philosophy, religious positionality, claims for truth