Critical perspectives on interreligious education : experiments in empathy / [edited] by Najeeba Syeed, Heidi Hadsell

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Developing pedagogies of interreligious understanding / Judith A. Berling -- Teaching African American religious pluralism / Monica A. Coleman -- Interreligious learning as monotheist imperative / Reuven Firestone -- Interreligious education : transnational and trans-spiritual identity formation in the classroom / Christine J. Hong -- Reflections on Islamic studies in an interreligious context / Munir Jiwa -- Interreligious education at the reconstructionist rabbinical college : a view from the Jewish edge / Nancy Fuchs Kreimer -- Integrating vision : comparative theology as the quest for interreligious wisdom / John Thatamanil -- Reflections in the waves : what interreligious studies can learn from women's movements in the U.S. / Rachel S. Mikva -- God's mercy is broader than this: theological sensibilities and interreligious theological education / Timur Yuskaev -- An evangelical/Pentecostal approach to interfaith education for seminarians and university students / Tony Richie -- Religious self, religious other : coformation as a model for interreligious education / Jennifer Howe Peace -- A ministry/khilāfa of radical kinship : the theological educator and student as interreligious ally / Scott C. Alexander.

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"The editors of 'Experiments in Empathy: Critical Reflections on Interreligious Education' have assembled a volume that spans multiple religious traditions and offers innovative methods for teaching and designing interreligious learning. This groundbreaking text includes established interreligious educators and emerging scholars who expand the vision of this field to include critical studies, decolonial approaches and exciting pedagogical developments. The book includes voices that are often left out of other comparative theology or interreligious education texts. Scholars from evangelical, Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, religiously hybrid and other background enrich the existing models for interreligious classrooms. The book is particularly relevant at a time when religion is so often harnessed for division and hatred. By examining the roots of racism, xenophobia, sexism and their interaction with religion that contribute to inequity the volume offers real world educational interventions. The content is in high demand as are the authors who contributed to the volume. Contributors are: Scott Alexander, Judith A. Berling, Monica A. Coleman, Reuven Firestone, Christine Hong, Jennifer Howe Peace, Munir Jiwa, Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Tony Ritchie, Rachel Mikva, John Thatanamil, Timur Yuskaev."-- Back cover