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 the quality and frequency of interchanges between religious groups and their leaders and scholars. By fostering conversation, the JIRS hopes to increase religious literacy, contribute to the field of interreligious hermeneutics, and address the issues surrounding interreligious relations, dialogue, theology, and communication. The JIRS solicits articles of an interdisciplinary nature and with the aim of producing resources for interreligious education, pedagogy, theology and cooperation.

Announcements

CFP: Interreligious Perspectives on Contemporary US Politics: (Inter)Religion in Social Movements, Political Organizing, and the Ballot Box

2020-07-24

Interreligious Perspectives on Contemporary US Politics: (Inter)Religion in Social Movements, Political Organizing, and the Ballot Box

Religion has historically played a central role in American electoral politics, policy making, movements for social change, and democracy in general; this role remains to this day. Religious institutions, communities, ideas, values, norms, and critique continue to shape individual Americans, party platforms, and the larger political discourse. The impact of religion on contemporary politics, in particular the 2016 and 2020 election cycle, is evidence that religious discourse shapes—andincreasingly is shaped by—political discourse in the United States.

The deadline of 8 January 2021 is intended to allow contributors the option to reflect on their research both before and/or after the November 2020 General Election.

See full CFP on our website or download PDF of CFP.

Current Issue

No 29 (2020): Issue 29

Issue 29 is a special issue featuring articles from the 17th Annual Engaging Particularities Conference of the Boston College Theology Department.

Published: 2020-03-16

Articles

From the Editor-in-Chief

Issue 29 in Partnership with Boston College Engaging Particularities XVII (2019)

Axel Marc Oaks Takács

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From the Guest Editors

Perspective on Personhood: Comparative Insights into Self, Community, and Cosmos

Hans Abdiel Harmakaputra, Katie Mahowski Mylroie

2-5

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Practicing the Image of God

How Ritual Can Retrain the Elephant

Michelle Voss Roberts

6-18

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Gadamer’s Philosophical Concept of “Prejudice” and its Use in Comparative Theology

Mariah Terey Cushing

19-37

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The Lost Self

Charles Taylor’s Buffered Self and the Social Imaginary of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Interbeing

Greg Mileski

38-47

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Overcoming Individualism on a Personalist Level

A Muslim and Christian Proposal

Shannon Gabrielle Wylie

48-65

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Developing a Language for Jewish Liturgical Asceticism

Wholeness of Heart as a Telos of Traditional Jewish Prayer

Bethany Autumn Slater

66-78

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Book Reviews

Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology

by Catherine Cornille

Joseph Kimmel

79-81

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The Ocean of God: On the Transreligious Future of Religions

by Roland Faber

Chava Bahle

82-84

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New Paths for Interreligious Theology: Perry Schmidt-Leukel’s Fractal Interpretation of Religious Diversity.

Edited by Alan Race and Paul Knitter

Kristin Johnston Largen

85-86

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The Other Prophet: Jesus in the Qur’an

By Mouhanad Khorchide and Klaus von Stosch, trans. Simon Pare

Lucinda Mosher

87-88

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Religious Imaginations: How Narratives of Faith are Shaping Today’s World

Edited by James Walters

Daniel Pigg

89-91

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