I argue in this dissertation that a novel philosophical system, which I call Cosmosyntheism, provides the best solutions to the problems posed to religion and religious pluralism by globalization. To put it succinctly, my thesis is that the best way to avoid any prior or future …
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In 2020, over a million international students enrolled at universities in the United States. A significant percent come from Muslim-majority countries whose governments sponsor their education abroad. As overall international enrollments decrease, recruiting this population rem…
Based on the indigenous practices of time-tested pela relationships in Maluku, this interdisciplinary dissertation proposes a symbolic-imagined model/process for interreligious relationships in orally-oriented societies of Indonesia and beyond. From the perspective of the social…
The dissertation explores what key perspectives within the fields of comparative history of religions, philosophy, and science and religion can contribute to the understanding of a central, self-identity issue in the study of religion and interreligious dialogue: How does one de…
What do American Jews really know about Muslims? What do American Muslims really know about Jews? These questions undergird this account of how two religious adult educators--a Jew and a Muslim--came to engage in collaborative, dialogic, relational and transformational interreli…
This dissertation provides a comprehensive analysis of Riccoldo da Monte Croce's (d. 1320) nascent theology of Islam. Riccoldo's firsthand knowledge of Muslims and his frequent and explicit reference to it in his writings make him a unique figure in medieval interreligious relat…
After the Second Vatican Council, which took place in 1962-1965, the Catholic Church reached out to both co-religionists and non-Christians. As the second largest religion in the world (after Christianity), the Muslim world began to react to this call for dialogue. Without a wor…
The following thesis examines and assesses the quality and progress of relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Islamic world, most particularly various Islamic organizations and states, since the landmark Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church (1962-1965…
This work is concerned with how Christian theology treats the question of religious others ---those persons and communities judged to fall outside the boundaries of "Christianity"---along with what I will call their "witness," which includes (but is not restricted to) their beli…
A wealth of recent scholarship has focused on interreligious dialogue as a resource for the transformation of religious conflicts. Such studies often mention the importance of discoveries or 'insights' as key factors in successful dialogue processes. However, few authors have de…
This dissertation focuses on the issue of the reconstruction of our interreligious dialogue between Christianity and Buddhism from an ecological feminist perspective. The new reconstructive work in our time is to cope with the unprecedented challenges presented by our postmodern…
This dissertation examines the pursuit of inter-religious relations and solidarity from the perspective of Francis Cardinal Arinze (1984-2002), the first of President of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious relations and dialogue in the Catholic Church. Cardinal Arinze cal…