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Creating Interfaith Learning Opportunities in Education

Creating Interfaith Learning Opportunities in Education

Posted on February 24, 2016February 23, 2016 by Jeffrey Wilheim
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
Ideas for Research On Interfaith Couples and Families

Ideas for Research On Interfaith Couples and Families

Posted on September 21, 2015September 20, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
I conducted anthropological research on interfaith couples and marriages in Indonesia in 2010, and have continued to investigate interfaith dialogue practices, religious diversity management and inter... Read More
One of These Jews Is Not Like the Others: A Progressive Jew at an Orthodox Yom Kippur

One of These Jews Is Not Like the Others: A Progressive Jew at an Orthodox Yom Kippur

Posted on September 17, 2015September 18, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
It was raining at dusk. I decided not to ride my bike to the progressive Yom Kippur service on the Boston University campus. If I rode my bike, I would get too thirsty coming home and I wouldn’t ke... Read More
“Right View” and Interfaith Dialogue

“Right View” and Interfaith Dialogue

Posted on September 3, 2015September 7, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
One “fold” on the Buddhist Noble Eightfold Path toward enlightenment is Right View. “Right view” is the skill of dissolving interpretations in favor of drawing closer to the reality of the wor... Read More
“Stand together yet not too near together”: How Interfaith Dialogue Teaches Participants to Value Diversity

“Stand together yet not too near together”: How Interfaith Dialogue Teaches Participants to Value Diversity

Posted on August 31, 2015May 31, 2016 by Jenn Lindsay
“Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart... Read More
The Mechanics of Personal Transformation via Interfaith Dialogue

The Mechanics of Personal Transformation via Interfaith Dialogue

Posted on August 25, 2015August 26, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
My research on interfaith dialogue is driven by questions about people’s individual capacities for transformation and cohabitation with other humans. In previous articles (here and here) I demonstra... Read More
The Difference Between Religious Diversity and Religious Pluralism

The Difference Between Religious Diversity and Religious Pluralism

Posted on August 5, 2015August 4, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
In a previous article I explored how “choice and safety” are the key ingredients in converting de facto religious diversity into religious pluralism, an environment more conducive to transformativ... Read More
“50 Years Since Nostra Aetate" with The International Council of Christians and Jews

“50 Years Since Nostra Aetate” with The International Council of Christians and Jews

Posted on July 24, 2015July 24, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
“Jews are non-Christian in a way that other religions are not.” Meredeth Banki, speaker at the International Council of Christians and Jews, said this when speaking about her experience as part of... Read More
Methodological Challenges to Measuring Transformation

Methodological Challenges to Measuring Transformation

Posted on July 7, 2015July 8, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
When I set out on my dissertation research, my main question was whether and how interfaith dialogue functions to transform people. I had a hypothesis that people do interfaith dialogue because when d... Read More
Choice and Safety: Required Ingredients for Interfaith Progress

Choice and Safety: Required Ingredients for Interfaith Progress

Posted on July 2, 2015July 1, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
Classic “contact theory” predicts that diverse societies automatically bring about tolerance. I argued against this idea here when I discussed how proximity generally exacerbates the anxiety of di... Read More
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State of Formation, founded as an offshoot of the Journal of Interreligious Studies (JIRS), is a program of the Betty Ann Greenbaum Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership at Hebrew College and Boston University School of Theology.

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