The Faiths of Others: A History of Interreligious Dialogue
Thomas Albert Howard
Abstract
In recent decades, organizations committed to interreligious or interfaith dialogue have proliferated, both in the Western and non-Western worlds. Why, how so, and what exactly is interreligious dialogue? These are the touchstone questions of this book, the first major history of interreligious dialogue in the modern age. The book narrates and analyzes several key turning points in the history of interfaith dialogue before examining, in the conclusion, the contemporary landscape. While many have theorized about and/or practiced interreligious dialogue, few have attended carefully to its past, ... More
Keywords: interfaith dialogue, interreligious dialogue, global religious pluralism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300249897 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: September 2021 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300249897.001.0001 |
