{"title":"Interreligious Learning as Monotheist Imperative","authors":"Reuven Firestone","doi":"10.1163/9789004420045_004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004420045_004","url":null,"abstract":"Because seminaries are designed to further the goals of the religious communities that fund and support them, interreligious learning may not be generally accepted as fulfilling their institutional needs. This perspective derives from the history of interreligious polemic and competition between and within monotheist traditions, based on the assumption that God represents a single Truth that cannot be compromised, and that our expression of religion represents that Truth. This essay interrogates these assumptions and argues that true understanding must transcend the limits of religious institution, and offers an instructive way to understand the distinctiveness of one’s particular spiritual tradition in relation to other attempts to understand the Infinite","PeriodicalId":164837,"journal":{"name":"Critical Perspectives on Interreligious Education","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121113679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections in the Waves: What Interreligious Studies can Learn from Women’s Movements in the U.S.","authors":"Rachel S. Mikva","doi":"10.1163/9789004420045_009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004420045_009","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter I trace the development of interreligious studies and engagement in the United States by comparing it with the “waves” of women’s movements, and then use those insights to reflect on interreligious education at Chicago Theological Seminary and beyond.","PeriodicalId":164837,"journal":{"name":"Critical Perspectives on Interreligious Education","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115977173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religious Self, Religious Other: Coformation as a Model For Interreligious Education","authors":"J. Peace","doi":"10.1163/9789004420045_012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004420045_012","url":null,"abstract":"What does adequate preparation for the next generation of religious leaders and educators look like, given the complex multireligious context in which graduates will serve? This is the core question addressed in this chapter. To explore the question, I draw on a decade of experience as associate professor of interreligious studies at Andover Newton Theological School where I co-founded circle (the Center for Interreligious and Communal Leadership Education). The key to instilling interreligious competency is moving from a model of formation to a model of coformation. Coformation in this context is a term I coined to describe the model developed at circle that privileges learning with diverse religious communities over learning about the religious other. circle classes, shared between Hebrew College and Andover Newton, were co-designed, co-taught and jointly attended by Jewish and Christian faculty and students. The model detailed here creates a blueprint for both individual and institutional transformation towards an ethos of interreligious understanding.","PeriodicalId":164837,"journal":{"name":"Critical Perspectives on Interreligious Education","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129354231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}