Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Part I Contours and Concerns
1 What Is Interreligious Studies? Considerations from the "Between" Lucinda Mosher 3
2 The Interreligious Studies Agenda: Three Dilemmas Brian K. Pennington 15
3 Interreligious Studies and Comparative Theology: Distinctions and Tensions between Two Young Fields Pim Valkenberg 24
4 Sparring with Spider Silk: Models for the Relationship between Interreligious Studies and the Interfaith Movement Hans Gustafson 32
5 Bridging, Crossing, Transgressing: Interreligious Studies and Interfaith Engagement in the Catholic University Kerry P. C. San Chirico Julia Sheetz 41
6 Committed Engagement: Pursuing Interreligious Studies from a Position of Faith Jeffery D. Long 52
Part II Interdisciplinarity
7 Ethnography in Interreligious Studies: Embodiment, Self-Critique, and the Virtue of Vulnerability Devaka Premawardhana 63
8 Jewish-Hindu Encounters: Experiential Interreligious Learning in the Early Twenty-First Century Alan Brill 72
9 Bibliographical History as Interreligious Studies Methodology: A Project Report David Thomas 81
10 Curating an Interfaith Pilgrimage: Visual Strategies for Interreligious Studies Aaron Rosen 88
11 Interreligious Studies and Law: Decolonizing Freedom of Religion and Belief Paul Hedges Yue Liu 99
12 The Interreligious Studies Approach to Science: Replacing Debate with Dialogue, Conflict with Cooperation Hossein Kamaly 108
13 Toward Enriched Ways of Knowing: The Multiple Roles of Aesthetics in Interreligious Encounters William Dyrness Alexander E. Massad 117
14 Commonality and Difference: Jain Philosophical Approaches to Interreligious Studies Anil Mundra 128
15 The Arts as Arena for-and Approach to-Interreligious Studies: Reflections on Dialogical Methodology Ruth Illman 137
Part III Intersectionality
16 For Whom, and to What End? Possibilities and Implications of Privileging Intersectionality in Interreligious Studies Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier 147
17 An Ecological Approach to Interreligious Studies: Seeing Religious Difference As Emerging in Place Kevin Minister 157
18 Interreligious Studies and Gender: Critical Intersectional Feminist Perspectives Anne Hege Grung 168
19 Confronting White Supremacy: Critical Pedagogies for Interreligious Engagement Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook 176
20 Anti-Jewish Bigotry's Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments: Recommendations for Interreligious Studies Amy-Jill Levine 186
21 Toward a Praxis of Reconciliation: Catholic Theology, Interreligious Studies, and Anti-Muslim Bigotry Axel Marc Oaks Takacs 197
Part IV Prioritizing the Margins
22 Weaving Interreligious Pedagogies: Indigenous and Afro-Atlantic Religious Traditions and the Visual Arts Yohana Agra Junker 213
23 Interreligious Studies, Humanism, and Secularity: A Norwegian Case Study Oddbjørn Leirvik 222
24 Interesting, Varied, and Messy Lives: A People's History of Christian-Muslim Relations David D. Grafton 232
25 "Drawing the Soul Towards Truth": On Exploring Hindu and Muslim Sacred Geometry Dialogically Rachelle Elizabeth 243
26 Diversity, Decolonization, and Autochthonous Voices: Hinduism's Dilemma for Interreligious Studies Vrajvihari Sharan 255
27 Considering Agonistic Pluralism as a Civic Norm: Implications for Interreligious Studies Brendan Randall Whittney Barth 266
Part V Interreligious Dialogical Close Reading
28 Teaching and Learning Interreligiously in a Time of Change: Beginning (but Not Ending) with Primary Texts Francis X. Clooney, SJ 281
29 Reading Scripture "As-If": Promoting Interreligious Understanding via Contextualized Perspective-Taking Monica Sanford 291
30 Ideal and Reality: An Interreligious Reading of the Gospel of John and the Mengzi Bin Song 302
31 Jewish Mystical Resources for Interreligious Engagement: A Practitioner's Reflection Or N. Rose 308
32 Turning to Aesthetics: The Guru Granth Sahib and Interreligious Studies Nikky-Guninder K. Singh 317
33 Spiritual Humanism Meets Cosmotheandric Vision: Tu Weiming, Raimon Pannikar, and Interreligious Studies Young-chan Ro 326
34 The Building Bridges Seminar: Interrogating the Category of Interreligious Studies Daniel A. Madigan, SJ 335
Part VI Interreligious Educational Design
35 Three Approaches to Teaching Religious Diversity: Toward Critical Interreligious/Interfaith Pedagogy Marianne Moyaert 347
36 Mentored Undergraduate Research: A Signature Pedagogy for Interreligious Studies Amy L. Allocco Brian K. Pennington 358
37 Kenya's "Triple Heritage" Context: Implications for Interreligious Studies Esther Mombo Florence Iminza 370
38 Teaching Things: Critical Objects and Creative Students in the Interreligious Studies Classroom S. Brent Plate 379
39 (Inter)Religious Ritual Participation in a Classroom Setting: Insights from Comparative Theology Hans A. Harmakaputra 387
40 Simulation-Based Pedagogy for Interreligious Literacy: Critical Thinking Exercises for Teens and Young Adults Celene Marie Ibrahim 396
41 Toward Leadership, Listening, and Literacy: Making the "Case" for Interreligious Studies Elinor J. Pierce 408
42 Spiritual Psychotherapy Practice Class: Making the Shift from Ecumenical to Interreligious Pamela Couture 419
43 Contemplative Caregiving and a DeathFest: An Interdisciplinary, Interreligious Experiment Wakoh Shannon Hickey Hannah Murphy Buc 430
44 Training for Leadership in Multifaith Contexts: Conflict Transformation Rachel S. Mikva 441
45 Chaplain Formation and Interreligious Studies: A Muslim Chaplaincy Educator's Perspective on the Interconnection Bilal W. Ansari 451
46 On Learning to Build an Organization: Interreligious/Interfaith Studies and Civic Renewal Eboo Patel 459
Part VII Trajectories
47 Foundational Contributions and Next Steps: The Development of Interreligious/Interfaith Studies Jennifer Howe Peace 471
48 Critical Interreligious Interdisciplinary Theological Reflection: Methodological and Hermeneutical Considerations for Interreligious Studies Rita D. Sherma 482
49 Integrating Speaking About with Speaking With. Toward a Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity John J. Thatamanil 494
50 A Contrapuntal Discipline: Through the Landscape of "Inter-" and "Religious" Timur R. Yuskaev 503
Abbreviations 513
About the Editor 515
About the Contributors 517
Chapters by Author Surname 523
Index 529
