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Call for Submissions: the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue, Issue 9: Women, Feminism, and Inter-Religious Dialogue
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
The Interfaith Movement Steps Up to Commemorate 9/11
A surprising amount of press leading up to the tenth anniversary commemorations of September 11th has been negative. Among the starker headlines, the Religion News Service released an article suggesti... Read More
Stop Worshipping the Enriched
So, do you think that God is a really-really-, super-, mega-, über-rich being in the sky? Even if you say you don’t, I challenge you to question a little deeper. If your tax and political ideolog... Read More
Narrative as New Reality: A Memoirist Responds to Robert Hunt
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
“Dialogue Hard?,” a Response to Hunt’s, “Muslims, Modernity, and the Prospects of Christian-Muslim Dialogue,”
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
I am so much more than Lutheran: a Response to Hunt’s ‘Muslims, Modernity, and the Prospects of Christian-Muslim Dialogue
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
Wanted: More Than Dialogue- A Response to Robert Hunt’s Essay
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
Insights of Emerging Scholars: Contributing Scholars publish in JIRD
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 as Prophetic Witness,” by Deepak Sarma
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