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Tag: Rome

What’s “Religious” About Interreligious Dialogue?

What’s “Religious” About Interreligious Dialogue?

Posted on August 18, 2015September 2, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
Anyone who has embarked upon the study of religion immediately runs into a debate of the meaning of the very word religion. Definitions abound and debates rage about whether a general definition of re... 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
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
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
An Audience with Pope Francis—Dispatch from Rome

An Audience with Pope Francis—Dispatch from Rome

Posted on February 3, 2015February 2, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
We were on our way to meet Pope Francis. We—the participants in the 50th anniversary meeting of the Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies—departed together from the Urbaniana campus a... Read More
An Improvised Family: Yom Kippur with Rome’s Progressive Jews

An Improvised Family: Yom Kippur with Rome’s Progressive Jews

Posted on October 17, 2014October 30, 2018 by Jenn Lindsay
Normally people do not go to Rome to refrain from eating. But it was Yom Kippur, and I was on my way to afternoon services at Beth Hillel, Rome’s new progressive Jewish community. My long walk to th... Read More
When in Rome, Do as the Progressive Roman Jews Do

When in Rome, Do as the Progressive Roman Jews Do

Posted on October 1, 2014October 30, 2018 by Jenn Lindsay
I was late to Rosh Hashanah services at Beth Hillel, Rome’s new progressive Jewish community. I meant to leave my apartment at 6pm but I scooted out the door by 6:45pm, realizing that the mistake wo... Read More
The Election of the New Hope: Dispatch from Rome

The Election of the New Hope: Dispatch from Rome

Posted on March 15, 2013March 15, 2013 by Jenn Lindsay
Last night I went to Saint Peter’s Square in Rome. I hoped to to see the black smoke of the papal conclave. I figured the dark puff would roil out from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the sorr... 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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