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Judaism and Interreligious Co-evolution: A Retrospective Reading
This introductory essay is my attempt to offer a reading of the corpus that provides the basis for the essays in the present issue of Contemporary...
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Mysticism as a Basis of Interreligious Dialogue: God-Centeredness
The focus of my attention in this chapter is God-centeredness. Some theologians and philosophers have argued that this orientation cannot be a...
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Interreligious Encounter as a Self-Reflexive-Spiritual Experience: Open Mosque Day as Religious Education Practice
Compared to an exchange, a dispute or a discussion, the encounter has some important characteristics which make it a particularly suitable medium of...
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Religion and Sustainability: Interreligious Resources, Interdisciplinary Responses Intersection of Sustainability Studies and Religion, Theology, Philosophy
This volume brings sustainability studies into creative and constructive conversation with actions, practices, and worldviews from religion and...
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Self-transcendence as the Ultimate Reality: A Neo-Confucian and Interreligious Dialogue
This chapter presents the Confucian idea of self-transcendence and its modern implications for interreligious dialogue. My discussion is based on...
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Religion and worldviews education and the paradox of inclusivity
Paradoxes of inclusivity occur when attempts at inclusivity clash with the exclusive claims of some of the positions they seek to accommodate. In...
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Mutual Respect as a Condition of Interreligious Dialogue
In this chapter, I discuss in some detail the concept of mutual respect in interreligious dialogue. I argue that the subject of the conversation in...
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Peace Pedagogy in Intercultural and Interreligious Learning: Insights from the ETOS Initiative and SAPERE BiH Program (2014–2020)
Teaching is a complex contextualized process that has to be responsive to the needs of each individual and the community. It therefore should...
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Interreligious Learning and Intersectionality
Interreligious learning is important because of the plurality of religious traditions in many parts of the globalized world. This article uses an...
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Sacred Spaces and Virtual Design. Toward a Digital Prayer Interreligious Architecture
The University of Naples Federico II Department of Architecture is develo** research on new types of interreligious space for the three Abrahamic...
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Christian Mindfulness and Global Public Health: A Commentary and Agenda
In response to Oman’s “Mindfulness for global public health: Critical analysis and agenda,” this commentary explores and develops the global public...
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The Interreligious Complex at Vulcana-Băi in Romania: A Multi-Religious Place Between Idealism and Pragmatism
In the early nineties, the International Ecumenical Center, a non-governmental organization of laics and clerics of different religions, was founded...
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From Porous Borders to Cosmopolitan Horizons: Beyond Interreligious Dialogue and Multiple Belonging
The chapter brings together the North and the South in promoting religious cosmopolitanism. It is something that goes beyond interreligious dialogue...
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Domestic Religion: Why Interreligious Dialogue in Kenya Conserves Rather Than Disrupts Power
Religious actors are often portrayed as critical protagonists in efforts at peacebuilding and it should therefore come as no surprise that they have...
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“Reciprocal Illumination” of Hinduism, Human Rights, and the Comparative Study of Religion: Arvind Sharma’s Contributions
Arvind Sharma has made immensely significant contributions in the fields of both comparative religion and the study of Hinduism through his...
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Meaningful Interpersonal Contact: Interreligious Dialogue as a Response to the Cognitive and Social Dynamics of Bias
Social and religious prejudices are a product of both “nature” and “nurture” and they have social and cognitive foundations, which are both...
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Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue at Vatican II and in Its Aftermath: Charting the Way Forward
The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council (1962–1965) is noted for having instituted a twofold dialogue—dialogue among the Christian Churches and...
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A Most Uncommon Task: Arvind Sharma and the Construction of Hindu Missiology
In this essay, I offer a critical, appreciative assessment of Arvind Sharma’s vision of missionary Hinduism, as developed in his 2011 monograph Hinduis...
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Changing the Catholic Church’s Interreligious Relationships: Irish American Pioneers at the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions
In 1893, at a time when the popes of the Roman Catholic Church warned against the danger of religious indifferentism and condemned religious freedom,...
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Congregations, Diversity, and Interreligious Relations
Because of the secularization thesis and the assumptions about the de-institutionalization of religion which had been thought to be valid for a long...