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Bibliography for Interfaith and Interreligious Studies

This bibliography offers a comprehensive guide to scholarship in interfaith and interreligious studies, organized into thematic sections such as engaged religious pluralism, interreligious education, theology and ethics of dialogue, critiques of pluralism, historical perspectives, and civic life. It includes a wide range of books, articles, and reports that explore the dynamics of religious diversity, dialogue, and cooperation in contemporary society. Texts that IA considers foundational to our work are featured in bold. This resource is designed to support educators, scholars, and practitioners seeking to advance understanding and engagement across religious traditions. 

Bibliography for Interfaith and Interreligious Studies

Table of Contents

    Engaged Religious Pluralism 

    • The Aspen Institute. Principled Pluralism: Report of the Inclusive American Project. 2013. 
    • Boase, Roger, ed. Interfaith Islam and Global Dialogue: Religious Pluralism and the Pursuit of Peace. Ashgate Publishing, 2005. 
    • Brooks, Joanna. The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith. New York: Free Press, 2012. 
    • Carpe, William D. Reflections on Interfaith Dialogue.” Ecumenical Trends23, (April 1994): 49-62.ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials,EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015). 
    • Cohen, Joshua and Ian Lague, ed. The Place of Tolerance in Islam. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002. 
    • The Dalai Lama. Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World’s Religions can Come Together. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2010. 
    • Dallmayr, Fred. Cross-cultural Encounter.” In Cross-Cultural Conversation (Initiation), edited by Anindita Niyogi Balslev, 211-36. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1996. 
    • Davis, Adam, eds. Hearing the Call Across Traditions: Readings on Faith and Service. Woodstock, Vermont: Skylight Paths Press, 2009. 
    • Eck, Diana L.A New Religious America: How a Christian Country” has become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation. New York: HarperOne, 2001. 
    • Eck, Diana L.Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. 
    • Epstein, Greg. Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe. New York: Harper Collins, 2009. 
    • Davis, Adam, eds. Hearing the Call Across Traditions: Readings on Faith and Service. Woodstock, Vermont: Skylight Paths Press, 2009. Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Columbia, MO: South Asia Books, 1994. 
    • Gopin, Marc.To Make the Earth Whole: The Art of Citizen Diplomacy in an Age of Religious Militancy. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.: 2009. 
    • Alon, Goshen-Gottstein, Interreligious Heroes: Role Models and Spiritual Exemplars for Interfaith Practice. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2021.  
    • Halafoff, Anna. 2011. Countering Islamophobia: Muslim Participation in Multifaith Networks.” Islam & Christian Muslim Relations 22 (4): 451. https://ezproxy.elon.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/90…. 
    • Halafoff, Anna. Netpeace and the cosmopolitan condition: multifaith movements and the politics of understanding.” Political Theology 11, no. 5 (October 2010): 717-737. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 8, 2015). 
    • Halafoff, Anna and David Wright-Neville. 2009. Isma? Listen: National Consultations on Eliminating Prejudice Against Arab and Muslim Australians.” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 32 (11): 921. https://ezproxy.elon.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/19…. 
    • Halevi, Yossi Klein.At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for Hope with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land. New York: Perennial, 2002. 
    • Heckman, Bud, Rori Picker Neiss, and Dirk Ficca. InterActive Faith: The Essential Interreligious Community-Building Handbook. Woodstock: Skylight Paths Publishing, 2010. 
    • Hollenbach, David. Human rights and interreligious dialogue: the challenge to mission in a pluralistic world.” International Bulletin Of Missionary Research 6, no. 3 (July 1982): 98-101. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Hussain, Amir. Oil & Water: Two Faiths : One God. Kelowna, Canada: CopperHouse, 2006 
    • Karabell, Zachary. Peace Be Upon You: Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Conflict and Cooperation. New York: Vintage, 2008. 
    • Katz, Rebecca Mays, ed. Interfaith Dialogue at the Grassroots. Philadelphia: Ecumenical Press, 2008. 
    • Kaufmann, Frank. Interfaith theological dialogue.” Dialogue & Alliance 17, no. 1 (2003): 1-98. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015). 
    • King, Martin Luther. The World House.” In A Testament to Hope, edited by James M. Washington, 617-633. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1986. 
    • Klostermaier, Klaus.Hindu and Christian in Vrindaban. Norwich: SMC Press, 2009. 
    • Lamb, Christopher A. Nineveh revisited: theory and practice in interfaith relations.” International Bulletin Of Missionary Research 8, no. 4 (October 1984): 156-158. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Little, David and Richard C. Holbrooke. Peacemakers in Action: Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 
    • Mays, Rebecca Kratz, ed.Interfaith Dialogue at the Grass Roots.Philadelphia: Ecumenical Press, 2008. 
    • McCarthy, Kate. Interfaith Encounters in America. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. 
    • McGuire, Meredith. Lived Religion: Faith and Practice in Every Day Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 
    • McGraw, Barbara & Formicola, Jo Renee, eds.Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously: Spiritual Politics on America’s Sacred Ground.Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2005. 
    • McGraw. Barbara. Rediscovering America’s Sacred Ground: Public Religion and Pursuit of the Good in a Pluralistic America. New York: State University of New York Press, 1999. 
    • Mittleman, Alan L. Rights, beliefs, and dialogue.”Journal Of Ecumenical Studies 18, no. 1 (1981 1981): 33-40. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Moyaert, Marianne and Joris Geldhof, eds.Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue: Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. 
    • Moyaert, Marianne, Interreligious Relations and the Negotiation of Ritual Boundaries: Explorations in Interrituality. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.  
    • Niebuhr, Gustav. Beyond Tolerance: Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America. New York: Viking Penguin, 2008. 
    • Nussbaum, Martha. The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. 
    • Patel, Eboo.Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007. 
    • Patel, Eboo. Interfaith Leadership: A Primer. Boston: Beacon Press, 2016. 
    • Patel, Eboo.Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America. Boston: Beacon Press, 2012. 
    • Patel, Eboo and Patrice Brodeur. Building the Interfaith Youth Movement: Beyond Dialogue to Action. Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. 
    • Peace, Jennifer, Or Rose and Gregory Mobley, eds. My Neighbor’s Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth and Transformation. New York: Orbis Books, 2012. 
    • Pratt, Douglas. Secular government and interfaith dialogue: a regional Asia-Pacific initiative.” Studies In Interreligious Dialogue 20, no. 1 (2010 2010): 42-57. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015). 
    • Prothero, Steven, ed.  A Nation of Religions: The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious  America.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 
    • Prothero, Steven. God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World. New York: HarperOne, 2010. 
    • Prothero, Steven. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – and Doesn’t. New York: HarperOne, 2007. 
    • Rauf, Feisal Abdul. What’s Right with Islam is What’s Right with America.  New York: HarperCollins, 2004. 
    • Reiss, Moshe. A marriage officiated by a rabbi and two priests.” Studies In Interreligious Dialogue 16, no. 1 (2006 2006): 115-119. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015). 
    • Richardson, E. Allen.  Strangers in This Land: Pluralism and the Response to Diversity in the United States.  Jefferson, NC:  McFarland, 2010. 
    • Sacks, Jonathan. The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations. New York: Continuum, 2002. 
    • Safi, Omid, ed.Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2003. 
    • Smock, David. Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2002. 
    • Stedman, Chris. Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious. Boston: Beacon Press, 2013. 
    • Swidler, Leonard, Dialogue for Interreligious Understanding: Strategies for the Transformation of Culture-Shaping Institutions. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.  
    • Thistlethwaite, Susan Brooks, ed. Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives on the New Paradigm of Peace and War. New York: Palgrave, 2012. 
    • Thottakara, Augustine. Inter-Religious Dialogue in Asia–I.” Journal Of Dharma 25, no. 1 (January 2000): 7-85. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015). 
    • Yuki, Hideo. The spaceship is breaking up: interreligious prayer and interreligious cooperation.” Japanese Religions 38, no. 1-2 (September 2013): 81-82. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015). 
    • Zaros, Anna. Interreligious dialogue and the issue of Jerusalem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Journal Of Theta Alpha Kappa 33, no. 2 (September 2009): 1-19. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015).

    Interreligious Education and Pluralism in Higher Ed 

    • Astin, Alexander, et. al. Cultivating the Spirit: How College Can Enhance Students’ Inner Lives. San Francisco: JosseyBass, 2011. 
    • Basham, Katie, and Megan Hughes. Creating and Sustaining Interfaith Cooperation on Christian Campuses: Tools and Challenges.” The Journal of College and Character, 13, No. 2 (2012): doi:10.1515/jcc-2012-1900. 
    • Boys, Mary C & Sara S. Lee. Christians & Jews in Dialogue: Learning in the Presence of the Other. Woodstock, Vermont: Skylight Paths, 2006. 
    • Berling, Judith. Understanding Other Religious Worlds: A Guide for Interreligious Education.  Maryknoll, NY:  Orbis Books, 2004. 
    • Cheetham, David. The University and Interfaith Education.” Studies In Interreligious Dialogue 15, no. 1 (2005 2005): 16-35. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015). 
    • Cunningham, David S. ed., Hearing Vocation Differently: Meaning, Purpose and Identity in the Multi-Faith Academy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 
    • Diamond, Miriam Rosalyn.Fostering Religious Literacy Across Campus. Stillwater: New Forums Press, 2011. 
    • Diller, Jeanine. Toward a Field of Interfaith Studies.” Journal of Interreligious Studies 16 (2015)  
    • Ecumenical and Interreligious Education.” Religious Education 90, no. 2 (1995 1995): 174-301. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015). 
    • Edwards, Mark U., Jr. Religion on Our Campuses: A Professor’s Guide to Communities, Conflicts, and Promising Conversations. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006. 
    • Engebretson, Kath, International Handbook for Inter-Religious Education. New York: Springer, 2008. 
    • Fernandez, Eleazar S. ed., Teaching for a Multifaith World. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2017.  
    • Forster-Smith, Lucy A. and Janet M. Cooper Nelson.College & University Chaplaincy in the 21st Century: A Multifaith Look at the Practice of Ministry on Campuses Across America. Woodstock: SkyLight Paths, 2013. 
    • Fraser, James. Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2016.  
    • Goodman, Kathleen, Mary Ellen Giess, and Eboo Patel, eds. Educating About Religious Diversity and Interfaith Engagement. London: Routledge, 2019.  
    • Gorski, Phillip. American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2017.  
    • Gorski, Phillip. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press 2022.  
    • Gustafson, Hans. Everyday Wisdom: Interreligious Studies in a Pluralistic World. Minneapolis: Fortess Press, 2023 
    • Gustafson, Hans. Interreligious Studies: Dispatches from an Emerging Field. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2020.   
    • Halafoff, Anna. Education about Diverse Religions and Worldviews, Social Inclusion and Countering Extremism: Lessons for the Australian Curriculum.” Journal of Intercultural Studies (2015): 362-79. 
    • Halafoff, Anna and David Wright-Neville. A Missing Peace? The Role of Religious Actors in Countering Terrorism.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 32, no. 11 (2009): 921-32. 
    • Halafoff, Anna, Elisabeth Arweck, and Donald L. Boisvert. Education about Religions and Worldviews: Promoting Intercultural and Interreligious Understanding in Secular Societies.” Journal of Intercultural Studies (2015): 249-54. 
    • Hedges, Paul. Understanding Religion: Theories and Methods for Studying Religiously Diverse Societies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021.  
    • Hussain, Amir. Oil and Water: Two Faiths, One God. Copper House, 2006. 
    • Hutchinson, William. Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.  
    • Jackson, Robert, Rethinking Religious Education and Plurality: Issues in Diversity and Pedagogy London: Routledge, 2004.   
    • Jacobsen, Douglas and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen. No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 
    • Jacobsen, Douglas, and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen. The American University in a Postsecular Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 
    • Kastning-Olmesdahl, Ruth. Theological and psychological barriers to changing the image of Jews and Judaism in education.” Journal Of Ecumenical Studies 21, no. 3 (1984 1984): 452-469. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Kinast, Robert L. The dialogue decalogue: a pastoral commentary.” Journal Of Ecumenical Studies 21, no. 2 (1984 1984): 311-318.ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Kraml, Martina, Conflicts in Interreligious Education: Exploring Theory and Practice. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2022. 
    • Larson, Marion H. and Sarah Shady. From Bubble to Bridge: Educating Christians for a Multifaith World. Downers Grove: IVP Academic InterVarsity Press, 2017. 
    • Leirvik, Oddbjørn. Interreligious Studies: A Relational Approach to Religions Activism and the Study of Religion. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. 
    • Meister, Chad V., The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.  
    • Mikva, Rachel. Interreligious Studies: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.  
    • Moore, Diane.Overcoming Religious Illiteracy: A Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Religion in Secondary Education.New York: Palgrave, 2007. 
    • Mosher, Lucinda and Justus Baird. Beyond World Religions: The State of Multifaith Education in American Theological Schools. New York: Center for Multifaith Education, Auburn Theological Seminary, December 14, 2009. 
    • Mosher, Lucinda, The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2022.  
    • Nash, Robert. Religious Pluralism in the Academy: Opening the Dialogue. New York: P. Lang, 2001. 
    • Nash, Robert, et. al. How To Talk About Hot Topics on Campus: From Polarization to Moral Conversation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008. 
    • Patel, Eboo and Cassie Meyer. Engaging Religious Diversity on Campus: The Role of Interfaith Leadership.” Journal of College and Character X, No. 7 (2009): http://journals.naspa.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1436&context=jcc. 
    • Patel, Eboo and Cassie Meyer. Introduction to ‘Interfaith Cooperation on Campus’: Interfaith Cooperation as an InstitutionWide Priority.” The Journal of College and Character 12, No. 2 (2011): doi:10.2202/1940-1639.1794 
    • Patel, Eboo and Cassie Meyer. Teaching Interfaith Literacy.” The Journal of College and Character. 12, No. 4 (2011): doi:10.2202/1940-1639.1836. 
    • Patel, Eboo and Cassie Meyer. The Civic Relevance of Interfaith Cooperation for Colleges and Universities.” The Journal of College and Character 12, No. 1 (2011): doi:10.2202/1940-1639.1764. 
    • Patton, Laurie. Who Owns Religion: Scholars and Their Publics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019.  
    • Pirner, Manfred, Public Theology, Religious Diversity, and Interreligious Learning. London: (Routledge, 2018. 
    • Pollefeyt, Didier, From Interreligious Learning to Interworldview Education. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2023. 
    • Pugliese, Marc A. and Alexander Y. Hwang, eds., Teaching Interreligious Encounters. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.  
    • Rockenbach, Alyssa Bryant and Matthew Mayhew. Spirituality in College Students’ Lives: Translating Research into Practice. New York: Routledge Publishers, 2013. 
    • Roozen, David A. and Heidi Hadsell.Changing the Way Seminaries Teach: Pedagogies for Interfaith Dialogue. Hartford: Hartford Seminary, 2009. 
    • Syeed, Najeeba and Heidi Hadsell, eds., Critical Perspectives on Interreligious Education: Experiments in Empathy for our Time. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2020.   

    Theologies and Ethics of Interfaith Cooperation and Dialogue 

    • Ariarajah, S. Wesley.  Not Without my Neighbor.  Geneva:  WCC Publications, 1999. 
    • Berger, David. Jewish-Christian relations: a Jewish perspective.” Journal Of Ecumenical Studies 20, no. 1 (1983 1983): 5-32. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Boutin, Maurice. Anonymous Christianity: a paradigm for interreligious encounter?.”Journal Of Ecumenical Studies20, no. 4 (September 1983): 602-629. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Chia, Edmund. Is interfaith theology possible?.” Studies In Interreligious Dialogue 18, no. 1 (2008 2008): 112-117. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015). 
    • Clooney, Francis Xavier. Comparative Theology: Deep Learning Across Religious Borders. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell Chichester, 2010. 
    • Cornille, Catherine.The Im-possibility of Interreligious Dialogue. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2008. 
    • Cornille, Catherine, ed.Criteria of Discernment in Interreligious Dialogue (Interreligious Dialogue Series, Volume 1). Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2009. 
    • Cornille, Catherine, ed.Many Mansions? Multiple Religious Belonging and Christian Identity. New York: Orbis, 2002. 
    • Cornille, Catherine, and Christopher Conway, eds. Interreligious Hermeneutics (Interreligious Dialogue Series, Volume 2). Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2010. 
    • Cornille, Catherine, and Stephanie Corigliano, eds.Interreligious Dialogue and Cultural Change (Interreligious Dialogue Series, Volume 4). Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2012. 
    • Cornille, Catherine, and Glenn Willis, eds. The World Market and Interreligious Dialogue (Interreligious Dialogue Series, Volume 3). Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2011. 
    • D’Costa, Gavin. Theology and Religious Pluralism: The Challenge of the Other. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1986.  
    • Dulles, Avery Robert Cardinal. Ecumenism and theological method.” Journal Of Ecumenical Studies17, no. 1 (1980 1980): 40-48.ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Earley, Glenn D. The radical hermeneutical shift in post-Holocaust Christian thought.” Journal Of Ecumenical Studies 18, no. 1 (1981 1981): 16-32. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Eckardt, Alice L, and Roy Eckardt. Achievements and trials of interfaith.” Judaism 27, no. 3 (1978 1978): 318-323. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Eron, Lewis John.You who revere the Lord, bless the Lord.” 18, no. 1 (1981 1981): 63-73. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Esack, Farid.Qu’ran, Liberation, and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity Against Oppression. Oxford: Oneworld, 2002. 
    • Fasching, Darrel J and Dell Dechant. Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., 2001. 
    • Fletcher, Jeanine Hill. Monopoly on Salvation: A Feminist Approach to Religious Pluralism. Bloomsbury Academic: 2005. 
    • Folkemer, Lawrence D. Dialogue and proclamation.” Journal Of Ecumenical Studies13, no. 3 (1976 1976): 420-439.ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Grob, Leonard and John K. Roth. Encountering the Stranger: A Jewish Christian Muslim Trialogue. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. 
    • Hanh, Thich Nhat. Living Buddha, Living Christ. New York: Riverhead Books, 1995. 
    • Hassan, Riffat. Messianism and Islam.” Journal Of Ecumenical Studies 22, no. 2 (1985 1985): 261-291. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Hedges, Paul. Comparative Theology: A Critical and Methodological Perspective. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2017.  
    • Hedges, Paul. Controversies in Interreligious Dialogue and the Theology of Religions.London: SCM Press, 2010. 
    • Heim, S Mark. Grounds for Understanding. Ecumenical Resources for Responses to Religious Pluralism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998. 
    • Hellwig, Monika. Bases and boundaries for interfaith dialogue: a Christian viewpoint.” Journal Of Ecumenical Studies 14, no. 3 (1977 1977): 419-432. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Hick, John and Paul Knitter, eds. The Myth of Christian Uniqueness: Toward a Pluralistic Theology of Religions.Norwich: SCM Press, 2012. 
    • Hick, John, An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.  
    • Inbody, Tyron. Robert Neville’s Theology: Basis for Interfaith Dialogue?.” American Journal Of Theology & Philosophy16, no. 2 (May 1995): 189-214.ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015). 
    • Jensen, David Hadley. The emptying Christ: a christological approach to interfaith dialogue.” Studies In Interreligious Dialogue 11, no. 1 (2001 2001): 5-24. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015). 
    • Jonkers, Peter, Religious Truth and Identity in an Age of Pluralism. London: Routledge, 2020. 
    • Kärkkäinen, Veli-Matti. An Introduction to the Theology of Religions: Biblical, Historical, and Contemporary Perspectives. Westmont, Il: InterVarsity Press, 2003.  
    • Kearney, R. & J. Taylor, eds. Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions. London: Continuum Publishing, 2011.  
    • Kerr, David A. The Prophet Muhammad in Christian theological perspective.” International Bulletin Of Missionary Research 8, no. 3 (July 1984): 112-116. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Knitter, Paul F. Introducing Theologies of Religions. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2002. 
    • Knitter, Paul F. No Other Name? A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes toward the World Religions. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1999. 
    • Knitter, Paul F. One Earth Many Religions: Multifaith Dialogue and Global Responsibility. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1995. 
    • Knitter, Paul F. Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian. Oxford: OneWorld, 2009. 
    • Knitter, Paul and Alan Race, eds. New Paths for Interreligious Theology: Perry Schmidt-Leukel’s Fractal Interpretation of Religious Diversity. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2019.  
    • Kors, Anna, Religious Diversity and Interreligious Dialogue. New York: Springer Publishing, 2020. 
    • Lamptey, Jerusha. Never Wholly Other: A Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 
    • McKim, Robert, Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.   
    • McKim, Robert, On Religious Diversity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.  
    • Meeker, Kevin & Philip Quinn eds., The Philosophical Challenge of Religious Diversity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 
    • Moyaert, Marianne and Joris Geldhof.Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue: Boundaries, Transgressions, and Innovations. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. 
    • Moyaert, Marianne. Fragile Identities: Towards a Theology of Interreligious Hospitality. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2011.  
    • Moyaert, Marianne, In Response to the Religious Other: Ricoeur and the Fragility of Interreligious Encounters. Landham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. 
    • Mitias, Michael, Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.  
    • Patel, Eboo, et al. Interfaith Leadership: Bringing Religious Groups Together.” In Crossing the Divide: Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference, edited by Todd L. Pittinsky. Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2009. 
    • Race, Alan. Thinking About Religious Pluralism: Shaping Theology of Religions for Our Times. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015.   
    • Sacks, Jonathan. The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003. 
    • Sahadat, John. The interreligious study of mysticism and a sense of universality.” Journal Of Ecumenical Studies 22, no. 2 (1985 1985): 292-311. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Schmidt-Leukel, Perry. God Beyond Boundaries: A Christian and Pluralist Theology of Religions. New York: Waxmann, 2017.  
    • Schmidt-Leukel, Perry. Religious Pluralism and Interreligious Theology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2017.  
    • Seligman, Adam B. Religious Education and the Challenge of Pluralism. London: Oxford University Press, 2014 
    • Small, Joseph and Gilbert Rosenthal. Let us Reason Together. Christians and Jews in Conversation. Louisville: Witherspoon Press, 2010. 
    • Smith, Jane Idleman. Muslims, Christians, and the Challenge of Interfaith Dialogue. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 
    • Swidler, Leonard, Khalid Duran and Reuven Firestone. Trialogue: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Dialogue. New London: Twenty-Third Publications, 2007. 
    • Thatamanil, John. Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020.   
    • Torry, Malcom and Sarah Thorley. Together & Different: Engaging with People of Other Faiths.Norwich: Canterbury, 2008. 
    • Valkenberg, Pim.World Religions in Dialogue: A Comparative Theological Approach.Winona: Anselm Academic, 2017. 
    • Vernoff, Charles E. After the Holocaust: history and being as sources of method within the emerging interreligious hermeneutic.” Journal Of Ecumenical Studies 21, no. 4 (September 1984): 639-663. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Wills, Lawrence. Not God’s People: Insiders and Outsiders in the Biblical World. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008.

    Critiques of Pluralism, Tolerance, and Interfaith Dialogue 

    • Bender, Courtney and Pamela E. Klassen, eds. After Pluralism: Rethinking Religious Engagement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 291.172 Af89be 
    • Brown, Wendy. Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006). 179.9 B815re 
    • Cheetham, David, Douglas Pratt, and David Thomas, eds. Understanding Interreligious Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 
    • Ferguson, Roderick. The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference. University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 
    • Gardella, Peter. Pluralisms in the United States and in the American Empire,” Religious Studies Review 29, no. 3 (2003): 255-9. 
    • Haas, Simon M. The analysis of norms in statements on interfaith relations.” Studies In Interreligious Dialogue 20, no. 1 (2010 2010): 5-23. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015). 
    • Hulsether, Lucia. Out of Incorporation, Pluralism.” Journal of Interreligious Studies 17 (August 2015). Available at: http://irdialogue.org/journal/out-of-incorporation-pluralism-by-lucia-hu… 
    • Jadot, Jean Abp. The growth in Roman Catholic commitment to interreligious dialogue since Vatican II.” Journal Of Ecumenical Studies20, no. 3 (1983 1983): 365-378. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Patel, Eboo, and Cassie Meyer. Defining Religious Pluralism.” The Journal of College and Character 11, No. 2 (2010): doi:10.2202/1940-1639.1259. 
    • Putnam, Robert. E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the 21st Century.” Journal of Scandinavian Studies, 2007: 137-174.  
    • Reddy, Chandan.Freedom With Violence: Race, Sexuality, and U.S. Empire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 
    • Reynolds, Thomas E. Beyond violence in monotheism: interfaith possibilities in René Girard’s theory of mimetic rivalry.” Studies In Interreligious Dialogue 19, no. 1 (2009 2009): 81-101. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015). 
    • Wijsen, Frans J S, and Corry Nicolay. Interreligious worship in Friesland: a discourse analytical approach.” Studies In Interreligious Dialogue 20, no. 1 (2010 2010): 58-78. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015).

    History of Interreligious Encounter 

    • Burrell, David B. Maimonides, Aquinas and Gersonides on providence and evil.” Religious Studies 20, no. 3 (September 1984): 335-351. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Carey, Hilary M. God’s Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. 
    • Howard, Thomas Albert. The Faiths of Others: A History of Interreligious Dialogue. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.  
    • Mann, Gurinder Singh, Paul Numrich, and Raymond Williams. Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America: A Short History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 
    • Manseau, Peter. One Nation Under Gods: A New American History. New York: Back Bay Books, 2016. 
    • Marty, Martin E. Interfaith at fifty: it has worked.” Judaism 27, no. 3 (1978 1978): 340-344. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Marty, Martin E. This we can believe: a pluralistic vision.” Religious Education 75, no. 1 (January 1980): 37-49. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Marty, Martin E. The One and the Many: America’s Struggle for the Common Good. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.  
    • McLaren, Brian D. A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith. New York: HarperCollins, 2010. 
    • Runia, K. (Klaas). The World Council of Churches and inter-religious dialogue.” Calvin Theological Journal 15, no. 1 (April 1980): 27-46.ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Sheerin, John B. Has interfaith a future.” Judaism 27, no. 3 (1978): 308-312. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Smith, Jane I. Christian-Muslim dialogue in North America.” The Muslim World 94, no. 3 (July 2004): 303-403. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed December 2, 2015). 
    • Vivian, James F. The Pan-American mass, 1909-1914: a rejected contribution to Thanksgiving Day.” Church History 51, no. 3 (September 1982): 321-333. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Waltz, James. Muhammad and the Muslims in St Thomas Aquinas.” The Muslim World 66, no. 2 (April 1976): 81-95.ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015).

    Interreligious Studies and Civic Life 

    • Banchoff, Thomas. Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.   
    • Beneke, Chris. Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.  
    • Berger, Peter, The Many Altars of Modernity: Toward a Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age. Boston: De Gruyter, 2014). 
    • Burge, Ryan, The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2023. 
    • Campbell, David. Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.  
    • Cohen, Charles & Ronald Numbers, Gods in America: Religious Pluralism in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.  
    • Driedger, Leo, Roy Vogt, and Mavis Reimer. Mennonite intermarriage: national, regional and intergenerational trends.” The Mennonite Quarterly Review57, no. 2 (April 1983): 132-144.ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Goodman, Lenn E. Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.  
    • Gopin, Mark. To Make the Earth Whole: The Art of Civic Diplomacy in an Age of Religious Militancy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.  
    • Huberman, Steven. Conversion to Judaism: an analysis of family matters.” Judaism 30, no. 3 (1981 1981): 312-321. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials,EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Hunter, James Davison and David Franz, Religious Pluralism and Civil Society” in Stephen Prothero, ed.  A Nation of Religions: The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.  
    • Hutchison, William R. Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 
    • Inazu, Jonathon. Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 
    • Kozinski, Thaddeus J. The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism: And Why Philosophers Can’t Solve It. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010.  
    • Lewis, Earl and Nancy Cantor. Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 
    • Putnam, Robert and David Campbell. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. 
    • Putnam, Robert, Lewis M. Feldstein, and Don Cohen.Better Together: Restoring the American Community.London: Simon & Schuster, 2009. 
    • Saunders, LaVell E. Gradient of ecumenism and opposition to religious intermarriage.” Review Of Religious Research17, no. 2 (1976 1976): 107-119.ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Smith, Christian. Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 
    • Stout, Jeffrey.Democracy and Tradition. Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2005. 
    • Sharma, Arvind. Impact of the academic study of religion on interreligious preferences: the evidence from Australia.” Journal Of Dharma 9, no. 4 (October 1984): 348-352. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 23, 2015). 
    • Varshney, Ashutosh. Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. 
    • Walker, Nathan and Edwin Greenlee, eds. Whose God Rules? Is the United States a Secular National or a Theological Democracy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 
    • Wuthnow, Robert. America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. 

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