Interreligious Studies

Foreword by Anna HalafoffPrefaceHans Gustafson1 IntroductionHans GustafsonPart 1. Sketching the Field2 Area, Field, DisciplineOddbjørn Leirvik3 Identifying the Field of ResearchGeir Skeie4 A Civic Approach to Interfaith StudiesEboo Patel5 The Scholar, the Theologian, and the ActivistMarianne Moyaert6 Lessons from a Liminal SaintMark E. Hanshaw7 Interreligion and InterdisciplinarityJeanine Diller8 Interreligious or Transreligious?Anne Hege GrungPart 2. History and Method9 Historical PrecedentsThomas Albert Howard10 From Comparison to ConversationFrans Wijsen11 Ethnographic Approaches and LimitationsNelly van Doorn-Harder12 Vitality of Lived Religion ApproachesHans Gustafson13 Empirical Approaches to Interreligious RelationsÅnund Brottveit14 Ecumenical and InterreligiousAaron Hollander15 Places and Spaces of EncounterTimothy ParkerPart 3. Theological and Philosophical Considerations16 Grist for Theological MillsJ. R. Hustwit17 Dialogical Theology and PraxisWolfram Weisse18 Interreligious Theology and Truth SeekingPerry Schmidt-Leukel19 Vivekananda’s VisionJeffery D. LongPart 4. Contemporary Challenges20 Decolonizing the Study of ReligionKevin Minister21 Decolonizing Interreligious StudiesPaul Hedges22 Secular ImperativesKate McCarthy23 (Neo)Liberal ChallengesBrian K. Pennington24 Complicating Religious IdentityRussell C. D. Arnold25 In Reactionary TimesRachel S. Mikva26 Confronting XenoglossophobiaCaryn D. Riswold and Guenevere Black Ford27 Kairos Palestine and Autoimmune RejectionPeter A. PettitV Praxis and Possibility28 Cross-Cultural Leadership as Interfaith LeadershipBarbara A. McGraw29 Interreligious EmpathyCatherine Cornille30 Howard Thurman’s Mentorship of Zalman Schachter-ShalomiOr N. Rose31 PeacebuildingNavras J. Aafreedi32 Nation BuildingAsfa Widiyanto33 Scholarship as ActivismJeannine Hill Fletcher34 Dialogue and Christian-Muslim RelationsDouglas Pratt35 Gender and Christian-Muslim RelationsDeanna Ferree Womack36 ConclusionHans Gustafson