Abstract
Interreligious learning is important because of the plurality of religious traditions in many parts of the globalized world. This article uses an intersectional approach, taking into consideration religious differences as well as class, gender, race, colonialism, and so on. It takes account of community accountability, activism, and the use of arts and rituals in interreligious education. It discusses the challenges of doing interreligious education in Christian-based institutions and presents guidelines and best practices for interreligious learning.
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Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York, NY: Seabury Press, 1970).
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M. M. Bakhtin, The Dialogical Imagination: Four Essays (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1983).
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Najeeba Syeed, “Intersectionalities and Cosmopolitanisms in Interreligious Studies: A Response by Najeeba Syeed to Jeannine Hill Fletcher,” Journal of Interreligious Studies 18 (2016): 26–29, https://irstudies.org/index.php/jirs/article/view/319/303.
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Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), 29.
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Syeed, “Intersectionalities and Cosmopolitanisms in Interreligious Studies,” 27.
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Paul Hedges, “Can We Still Teach ‘Religion’?: Towards an Understanding of Religion as Culture and Orientation in Contemporary Pedagogy and Metatheory,” in International Handbook of Inter-religious Education, ed. Kath Engebretson et al. (New York, NY: Springer, 2010), 303.
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Hedges, “Can We Still Teach ‘Religion’?” 303.
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Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 4th ed. (San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books, 2012), 101.
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Rose Drew, Buddhist and Christian?: An Exploration of Dual Belonging (New York, NY: Routledge, 2011), 11.
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Monica Coleman, ed., Ain’t I a Womanist, Too?: Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2013).
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Francis X. Clooney, Comparative Theology: Deep Learning Across Religious Borders (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
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Jenny Peace, “Religious Self, Religious Other: Coformation as a Model for Interreligious Education,” in Experiments in Empathy for Our Time: Critical Reflections on Interreligious Learning, ed. Najeeba Syeed and Heidi Hadsell (Leiden: Brill, 2020).
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Kathleen T. Talvacchia, Critical Minds and Discerning Hearts: A Spirituality of Multicultural Teaching (St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2003), 29.
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Rachel Mikva, “Reflection in the Waves: What Interreligious Studies Can Learn from the Evolution of Women’s Movements in the U.S.,” in Experiments in Empathy for Our Time, ed. Syeed and Hadsell (Leiden: Brill, 2020).
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Martin E. Marty, “Pluralisms,” in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 612, Religious Pluralism and Civil Society, ed. Wade Clark Roof (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication, 2007), 19.
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Marianne Moyaert, “Introduction: Exploring the Phenomenon of Interreligious Ritual Participation,” in Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue: Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations, ed. Marianne Moyaert and Joris Geldhof (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), 1.
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Judith A. Berling, Understanding Other Religious Worlds: A Guide for Interreligious Education (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004), 33.
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Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia, “Cultural Humility Versus Cultural Competence: A Critical Distinction in Defining Physician Training Outcomes in Multicultural Education,” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 9, no. 2 (May 1998): 117.
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Tervalon and Murray-Garcia, “Cultural Humility,” 122.
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Syeed, N. (2020). Interreligious Learning and Intersectionality. In: Kwok, Pl. (eds) Asian and Asian American Women in Theology and Religion. Asian Christianity in the Diaspora. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36818-0_12
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