As people return from vacation and I peruse Facebook to check out their photos, I also notice a phenomenon that until recently didn’t bother me. Pictures of food. Pretty food. Gross food. Interestin...Read More
The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue presents its Call for Submissions for Issue 9: Women, Feminism, and Inter-Religious Dialogue Women have played pivotal roles in transforming communities and co...Read More
First off, I’m a memoirist. I’ve been invited to respond to Robert Hunt’s “Muslims, Modernity, and the Prospects of Christian-Muslim Dialogue,” distinctly because I am not a theologian, but ...Read More
I am grateful to Robert A. Hunt for his thoughtful paper and to the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue for inviting me to respond. Hunt raises many which resonate with me regarding freedom of relig...Read More
My primary critique of Hunt’s piece is that while he replaces old categories of religious self-understanding with new categories that supposedly facilitate more fruitful interreligious conversations...Read More
Robert Hunt’s essay, Muslims, Modernity, and the Prospects of Christian-Muslim Dialogue is intriguing and interesting. I especially found his ideas surrounding the narrative taxonomies of Islam an...Read More
The academy often seems all too hierarchical. Senior scholars evaluate junior faculty, who in turn evaluate their students. Rarely do emerging scholars have the chance to engage in dialogue as equals ...Read More
Madhvācārya, the 13th century propounder of dualism, exemplifies a prophet whose prophetic witness was enacted in a kairos, which demanded his dualist response. The school of Vedānta that he founde...Read More
I am on the planning committee of the International Political Camp at Agape Centro Ecumenico in the Italian Alps. Because I am always at a loss to describe exactly what Agape is to the uninitiated—a...Read More
Article first published as Book Review: Race, Incarceration, and American Values by Glenn C. Loury on Blogcritics. “Never before has a supposedly free country denied basic liberty to so many of ...Read More