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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
Romantic Distance vs. Vexing Proximity: the difficulty of real up-close interfaith encounters

Romantic Distance vs. Vexing Proximity: the difficulty of real up-close interfaith encounters

Posted on June 22, 2015November 12, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
My research on interreligious dialogue and engagement has reinforced an old cliché: absence makes the heart grow fonder. When two people are distant from each other, it is easy to idealize each other... Read More
On Irreconcilable Differences: My Interreligious Dialogue with Mormon Missionaries

On Irreconcilable Differences: My Interreligious Dialogue with Mormon Missionaries

Posted on June 16, 2015June 15, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
Since I’m conducting field research on interfaith dialogue in Rome, I thought it would be an important part of my participant-observation to embark upon a dialogue. I met some Mormon sisters conduct... Read More
Pluralismo Vivo: The Interfaith Roads of Rome

Pluralismo Vivo: The Interfaith Roads of Rome

Posted on June 12, 2015June 15, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
It’s not easy to find clear examples of “interreligious violence” in Rome. The closest thing Rome suffers to religious violence are distant shrieks from ISIS across the Mediterranean Sea... Read More
Family, Like Faith, Is What You Make It

Family, Like Faith, Is What You Make It

Posted on June 4, 2015May 26, 2015 by Grace Patterson
I have launched a campaign to have all of my loved ones move to New York City. Ideally, they’ll all move to Queens (one of the most diverse counties in the country!), but I’ll take any borough rea... Read More
What Can Interfaith Dialogue Really Do? Part 3 of 3

What Can Interfaith Dialogue Really Do? Part 3 of 3

Posted on May 19, 2015May 18, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
Read Part I here, and Part II here. When I ate lunch with the rabbi he inveighed against interfaith dialogue and its inability to reach or transform the minds of those who are closed to dialogue. He s... Read More
What Can Interfaith Dialogue Really Do? Part 2 of 3

What Can Interfaith Dialogue Really Do? Part 2 of 3

Posted on May 14, 2015May 13, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
Read Part I here. At lunch after Purim, I heard the rabbi criticize interfaith projects for being “just another religious group.” I reflected on the irony of a religious clergy person dismissing t... Read More
Interfaith Dialogue and Identity Formation

Interfaith Dialogue and Identity Formation

Posted on May 14, 2015May 13, 2015 by Eli Lieberman
Interfaith dialogue is of increasing importance on a daily basis in our current international social, political and economic order. This can be seen in the current interfaith groups that are gathering... Read More
What Can Interfaith Dialogue Really Do? Part 1 of 3

What Can Interfaith Dialogue Really Do? Part 1 of 3

Posted on May 12, 2015May 11, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
After the most recent Purim morning service at my synagogue, I ate lunch with the rabbi. He told me he thinks interreligious dialogue is an in-group hobby, that interfaith groups become cliques. He fe... Read More
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