Tag: Dialogue
Review of Leonard Swidler’s “Dialogue for Interreligious Understanding: Strategies for the Transformation of Culture-Shaping Institutions” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014). 212 pages. $37.00.
This review first appeared on catholicbooksreview.org on May 5, 2016. Leonard Swidler draws on his immense (half-century-plus-years’ worth of) experience and wisdom in interreligious, intercultura... Read More
Can Interfaith Dialogue Change Election Results?
As a Muslim, it is heartbreaking for me to see the extremely negative political rhetoric coming out of our presidential candidates’ mouths. From threats to bar Muslims from entering the United State... Read More
I spoke to the value of Hospitality
Interfaith Cooperation is about values, shared values. Religions have fundamentally different truth claims, but they hold in common certain values. I recently participated in an event for our local ... Read More
Christians, Jews, and Co-Officiation
We sat around tables arranged in a rectangle. The participants were future rabbis and Christian ministers– students from various Philadelphia seminaries– and their teachers. The topic was ... Read More
Why Interfaith is a not a Safe Word
Two weeks before I moved to Boston this past August, my parents received a letter in the mail that was for me. The card read in bold letters “ONE WORLD, ONE FAITH, ONE WORLD RELIGION.” I f... Read More
Creating Interfaith Learning Opportunities in Education
Editorial Director’s note: all Contributing Scholars begin writing by answering the following question as their first post: Why are you committed to building relationships with those from different ... Read More
Teaching for Tolerance
I have been an educator for quite some time. My work usually focuses on youth education, specifically with high school aged students. Through the work that I do, I’ve had the great fortune to tr... Read More
Heresy and Interfaith Dialogue
I am currently reading Medieval Heresies: Christianity, Judaism and Islam by Catherine Caldwell Ames. Reading the book has me thinking about how membership in a religious group is constructed in regar... Read More