Interreligious Dialogue: A Critical Analysis

To encourage critical thinking about religious plurality and the importance of religious difference.
To understand how the political and cultural dimensions shaping modern society have given rise to and/or inhibited the development of “multi-religious” states or trans-national religious movements.
To learn about existing organizations and the work they do.
To explore different modes of interreligious engagement and learn to critically assess their value and service to the public good.
To provide opportunities to delve deeper into specific situations of interreligious interaction.
To prepare students to be better informed participants and/or leaders of interreligious dialogue groups and facilitate constructive responses to real-world problems caused by ignorance or bias against members of other religions.

To encourage critical thinking about religious plurality and the importance of religious difference.
To understand how the political and cultural dimensions shaping modern society have given rise to and/or inhibited the development of “multi-religious” states or trans-national religious movements.
To learn about existing organizations and the work they do.
To explore different modes of interreligious engagement and learn to critically assess their value and service to the public good.
To provide opportunities to delve deeper into specific situations of interreligious interaction.
To prepare students to be better informed participants and/or leaders of interreligious dialogue groups and facilitate constructive responses to real-world problems caused by ignorance or bias against members of other religions.

Eboo Patel, Out of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise (Princeton, 2016)

Stephen Prothero, God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World (HarperOne, 2010)

Other readings and resources will be provided.

Date	Day	Details
Oct 19, 2020	Mon	Mini-Case Study: Geographic Regions due the week of October 19th	due by 05:59AM
Nov 17, 2020	Tue	Religious Deep Dive	due by 06:59AM