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Interreligious studies is a subdiscipline of religious studies that engages in the scholarly and religiously neutral description, multidisciplinary analysis, and theoretical framing of the interactions of religiously different people and groups, including the intersection of religion and secularity. It examines these interactions in historical ...
- Human Being
- Reality
- Knowledge
- Truth
- Perception
- Time
- Consciousness
Interreligious Studies will attach worth to the human being qua a human being, possibly based on humanistic ethics or on resources within the religious traditions.
Interreligious Studies may have a concern with Ultimate Reality if viewed from a more theological standpoint, from a more sociological one its concern may be with the perceived phenomenal world, that is, how religions contribute, or deter, social inclusion rather than with how they relate metaphysically. However, these two perspectives are not inco...
As with much else, attitudes here will depend upon the researcher, their field, and methodology. Some researchers may be very much concerned with questions of how knowledge is obtained, that is, in terms of such things as intercultural hermeneutics, others may question the very concept as an objective category at all following, for instance, lines ...
Questions of “truth” may not be of much concern to people involved with the pragmatics of interreligious social action, while the question of getting results may be valued. However, within religious contexts, truth may play a key role; indeed, it is likely to be held that lasting benefits must in some way be aligned with what is “true.”
Biological questions of what perception involves are unlikely to be of concern. However, in philosophical terms, what shapes what we perceive, the way we perceive it, etc. Then it will be related to some of the lines of thought discussed under “knowledge” and “truth.”
Unless issues about the different perceptions and understandings of time between religious traditions are raised, that is, whether it is conceived in linear or cyclic terms and the effects of this on thought worlds, actions, etc. it would not often be of much concern in most circumstances.
Concepts of this vary vastly between different religious traditions, and social and cultural groupings and so may become a topic of discussion among those concerned with the more abstract and metaphysical aspects of Interreligious Studies.
- Paul Hedges
- paul.hedges@winchester.ac.uk
The term “interreligious studies” is still a relatively new one in academia but during the last decade, some universities (like my own in Oslo) have established new chairs and study programs with exactly this title. Since 2005, there has also been a European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS), which holds ...
The Journal of Interreligious Studies (JIRS) is a forum for academic, social, and timely issues affecting religious communities around the world. Published online, it is designed to increase both the quality and frequency of interchanges among religious groups and their leaders and scholars. By fostering conversation, the Journal hopes to ...
Similar to the discussion on biases in interreligious trust, studies on biases in interreligious cooperation must consider context factors, specifically demography, and the salience of identities studied. Religiosity is sometimes understood as an indicator of an individual's strength of identification with a religious group.
Oct 8, 2024 · The Journal of Interreligious Studies is a forum for academic, social, and timely issues affecting religious communities around the world. It is a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to innovative research on and study of the interactions that take place within and between religious communities. Published online, it is designed to increase both ...
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‘Interreligious Studies’ since 2005. As an academic discipline, interreligious studies is related to the praxis field of interreligious (or interfaith) dialogue as reflected, for instance, in a new chair in ‘Comparative Theology and the Hermeneutics of Interreligious Dialogue,’ established in 2013 at vu University Amsterdam.
