Journal of Interreligious Studies

Issue 48 is now published! Explore peer-reviewed articles and book reviews in our newest publication irstudies.org/index.php/jirs…

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in JIRS 48, Okan Dogan from @HartfordInt reviews Shariʿa and Life: Authority, Compromise, and Mission in European Mosques (@utpress) by Uriya Shavit and Fabian Spengler from @oldtautwit. read more irstudies.org/index.php/jirs…

In JIRS 48, Carlos Piccone Camere (@carlos_piccone) reviews Douglas Ober's (@cascadechild) book Dust on the Throne (@stanfordpress) Read about it : irstudies.org/index.php/jirs…

JIRS 48, Salwa Alinat-Abed reviews Beyond Piety and Politics (@iupress) by Sabri Ciftci (from @KState), F. Michael Wuthrich (from @UnivOfKansas), and Ammar Shamaileh (@AmmarShamaileh) read it here: irstudies.org/index.php/jirs…

“Reimagining Interfaith Engagement: A Postfoundationalist Comparative Theology Paradigm,” by David Muthukumar Sivasubramanian, from SAIACS in Bangalore, India, offers a constructive epistemological proposal for comparative theology. Read more in Issue 48 irstudies.org/index.php/jirs…

“Monotheism and its Religious Alternatives: Some Neo-Perennialist Perspectives on the Divine Reality,” Christopher Knight from Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge advances apophatic framework for religious pluralism. Read More in Issue 48 irstudies.org/index.php/jirs…

Samantha Lin, a @Georgetown Alumna, authors "Sacrifice and Wood of the Cross: The Aqedah in Judaism and Christianity.” Lin conducts a study of Augustine and Rashi, and their interpretations of Genesis 22. Read more in Issue 48 irstudies.org/index.php/jirs…

Ana Petrache from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Draws on interviews with Christians, Jews, and Muslims, analyzing how ritual shapes each community’s response to state-imposed restrictions. Read More in Issue 48 irstudies.org/index.php/jirs…

Baltazar Acebedo Jr. from @univgroningen , critically engages Pope John Paul II’s apostolic exhortation Ecclesia in Asia through the lens of Miroslav Volf ’s “Theology of Embrace.” Read more in Issue 48: irstudies.org/index.php/jirs…

Excited to partner w/ the Jay Phillips Center Scholars in Interreligious Studies Fellowship. Learn a/b this funded fellowship of scholarly inquiry, public engagement, & collaborative formation for emerging scholars in the field of (Inter)religious Studies: tinyurl.com/jpcsirs

In @SetonHall's studio this morning recording a new episode of Inter/Sections, sponsored by SHU's Institute for Communication & Religion + Interreligious Studies Media. @amtakacs interviews Aseel Azab a/b her article, "Blessed Be the Stranger." Read up! tinyurl.com/j45asz

In JIRS 47, @Keatingr reviews Beyond Dialogue (@politybooks) by @CraigCons. Read it here: tinyurl.com/j47bk3

Matt Cavedon reviews Sameer Advani's "Ratzinger on Religious Pluralism" (Emmaus Academic) in JIRS 47. Read it here: tinyurl.com/j47bk2

Renee Bowling reviews Everyday Encounters (@FortressPress) by @hansgustafson of @StThomasCAS: Read at tinyurl.com/j47bk1

How can Kantian moral philosophy ground a theistic, religiously plural vision that draws on both Christianity and Sufism? In JIRS 47, Joseph G. Prud’homme (@washcoll) develops a Kantian-type moral argument for postulatory religious pluralism. Read here: tinyurl.com/j47ar4

How does Pope Francis move Catholicism toward a "fraternal pluralism" that rejoices in encounter with non-Christians, other Christians, and even dissenting Catholics? Read Matthew P. Cavedon's new article in Journal of Interreligious Studies 47: tinyurl.com/j47ar3

New in JIRS 47: Alison Forster proposes a “cataphatic śūnyatā,” offering a Pure Land alternative to Zen-focused readings of Meister Eckhart and reframing apophatic vs. cataphatic approaches to Buddhist–Christian dialogue. Read: tinyurl.com/j47ar2

How does divine action become lived experience in Christianity and Islam? In JIRS 47, Siavash Asadi introduces “Qur’anopraxis” alongside “Christopraxis,” comparing Jesus and the Qur’an as loci of encounter with God in practical theology. Read: tinyurl.com/j47ar1

Issue 47 is now published. Explore peer-reviewed articles and book reviews! tinyurl.com/jirs47