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The preference for hospitality and friendship as means for constructing a viable dialogical model is intentional. While hospitality makes real the possibility for enduring engagement among religions and their members, it does not always translate to friendship among religions. By using hospitality, I intend to show the necessity for religions to take seriously how their heritages affirm relationality as means to bear witness to their religious truths in the world. Religions cannot simply be open to the possibilities of encounters without concretizing them, hence the introduction of friendship. I contend that interreligious friendship is possible only when hospitality is initially demonstrated. To do this, I ground hospitality and friendship within the religious traditions of Christianity, Islam, and Ihievbe Traditional Religion.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17805-5_1

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