Developing Pedagogies of Interreligious Understanding

Abstract

The essays in this volume were developed in conversations over a period of years by participants in a project on “Interreligious Education and Pedagogy.” Project participants shared their own experiences of developing and evaluating interreligious programs, their successes and their frustrations. They learned from and with one another, and several of them participated in panels at professional associations or contributed essays to volumes on interreligious peda-gogies. They sought out conversations with educators and essays by faculty from institutions and backgrounds beyond their own. The project also sponsored a research report mapping the current state of interreligious learning in theological schools and seminaries. The report expanded upon the contributions of project participants with a thorough review of published literature and in-person or online interviews with faculty from a wider group of institutions. Each institution has had its own distinctive journey of challenges and opportunities, which has shaped its approach/es to interreligious education. That report is soon to be posted on the website of the gtu. This brief chapter will reflect on the pedagogical issues and implications of the essays in this volume, informed by the broader research of the project.