INDEX

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To reflect the different authors’ varying usages, the term “interreligious” in this index should be understood to mean interreligious/interfaith.

Figures are indicated by “f” following the page number.

AAC&U (Association of American Colleges and Universities), 200, 201, 207–8

AAR (American Academy of Religion), xii, xiv, 3, 251n7

Abington School District v. Schempp, 9

Abram, David, 160, 168

the academy (secular academy), xiv, xv, 2–15, 128–29, 134, 148

accountability, 129–31

activism, 33–34, 162–64, 202, 216

Acts of Faith (Eboo), 90, 91

adaptation. See theological educators, adaptation by

African Americans, 103–4, 143

African peoples, disempowerment of, 140–41

Alexander VI (Pope), 139

Allah, as storyteller, 85

Allard, LaDonna Brave Bull, 162, 163

Allocco, Amy L., xviii, 36, 43, 224

Al Salam Mosque Foundation, 73, 74

American Academy of Religion (AAR), xii, xiv, 3, 251n7

Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), 120, 200, 201, 207–8

Andover Newton Theological School (ANTS), 22, 79, 176–77, 249n1

animals and animism, 166–68, 248n10

Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (Nirenberg), 42–43

antiracist approaches to interreligious studies, 137–46

Asad, Talal, 47

Asians, discrimination against, 141–42, 143

Aslan, Rose, 51

Association of Interreligious/Interfaith

Studies, xiv, xvi

Association of Theological Schools, 233n3, 235n24

Atlanta, interreligious courses in, 54

Atomic Model (religious interactions model), 66–67

Auburn Theological Seminary, 22

Augsburg University, 85–86

Azumah, John, 149, 152

Baird, Justus, 84, 250n12

basmala (Islamic invocation of God), 21, 102

Behar, Ruth, 118

Bellah, Robert, 78

Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and

World Affairs, 3

Berling, Judith, 250n8

bias, 187–89, 191, 192, 198–99

bigotry, Vivekananda on, 196

Bikers for Jesus, 185

bioregionalism, language of, 165

Birkel, Michael, xix, 98–106, 224

“Black Activism, Unchurched” (Green), 213

Black Butterfly, 211–12

Black Lives Matter, 214

blackness, connection with Ham, 244n9

bodies. See embodiment

Boehrer, John, 77

Bolz-Weber, Nadia, 90

Boston, Ghazi’s experiences in Mayor’s Office, 204–6

“Boston Miracle,” 205

Boston University, 84

Bouchard, James, 142

Bridgewater College, 56

Brown, Lawrence, 211

Brown, R. Khari, 152

Brown, Sid, 114

Buddhism, 85, 112–14

Burney, Frances, 28

Cadge, Wendy, 84

California Lutheran University, 51

California State University, Chico, 52

Campbell, David, 3

Candler School of Theology (Emory University), 22

capitalism, 161

capstone (keystone) courses, 43–44, 46–47, 86, 92–96

“Careful Conversations” (classroom technique), 114–17

case method, 51, 67, 72–84, 93–94, 96, 120, 239n12

Catholicism, privileging of, in prisons, 185

Catholic Theological Union, 22

Caws, Peter, 219

Center for Engaged Religious Pluralism, 186

Center for Inter-Religious and Communal

Leadership Education (CIRCLE), 22, 172, 176, 249n1, 250n11

Center for Multifaith Education (Auburn Theological Seminary), 22

Certificate in Interreligious and Intercultural Studies (California State University, Chico), 52

The Changing Face of College Teaching (Boehrer and Linsky), 77

chaplains, in prisons, 187–91

Chicago Theological Seminary, 126

China, ban on immigration from, 141–42

Christensen, Chris, 75

Christianity: Christian thought, on non-Christian religions, 18–20; Judaism and, 42–43; privileging of, 19–20, 127–29, 138–39, 185; Protestantism, 18–19, 184–85; stories in, 85; as subject of IJB, 217; Western, 19–20; white Christian oppression, 199. See also antiracist approaches to interreligious studies

CIRCLE (Center for Inter-Religious and

Communal Leadership Education), 22, 172, 176, 249n1, 250n11

cities. See interreligious cities, case study on; names of individual cities

citizenship, connection with White Christian supremacy, 139, 144

civic life, xii, 5, 14, 178–81, 201–2

Claremont School of Theology, 22

Clark, M. Carolyn, 88, 89

classroom practices. See pedagogy

Claussen, Geoffrey D., xviii, 36, 42, 224

clergy, 187–91, 214

climate change, 248n2

Clooney, Francis, 22

coformation, 176

cognitive-affective frame perspective (lens bias), 187–89, 192, 194

College Learning for the New Global Century (AAC&U), 200, 207–8

College of Charleston, 54

Columbian Exposition (Chicago World’s Fair), 18–19

communities: community activists, scholars and, 216; community-based interfaith organizations, 5; community engagement, 32; culture and, 145; event planning, involvement in, 177; GBIO as, 180; religious, 105, 176–78; religious understandings of, 119; Ummah, 118–19

companion (havruta) study, 174–75

comparative religion studies, definition of, 233n7

comparative storytelling, 89, 92, 93, 96

compassion (mercy, rahma), 103

complications, in interreligious studies, 124–36

Cone, James, 213, 214

conflicted religious identity syndrome, 152

Coppin State University, 218

correctional institutions. See prisons, institutional change in

Council of Independent Colleges, 109

covering (toning down a disfavored identity), 26–27

Cox, Harvey, 209

Cressler, Matthew, 54

critical thinking, 36–48, 120

critiques, 47–48, 111

cultural competence, 200

cultural systems, 30–32, 145, 192–93

current events, impact of, 133–35

curricula for interreligious studies, themes from, 49–57

Dahill, Lisa E., xx, 160, 225

Dakake, Maria, 103

Dakota Access Pipeline, 162–64

Dalrymple, Jack, 162

darshan (divine compassion), 194

David, King (biblical), 88

David Whitford, 140

Davis, Angela, 26

Day, Dorothy, 217

Days of Interreligious Youth Action (DIYA), 207

Del Vecchio, Kristi, xviii, 49, 225

DePaul University, 203–4

Detroit, Christian responses to riot of 1967, 213

dialogue: contexts for, 197, 210; diversity and, 212; on divisive issues, 34; effects of, 192; intra-faith, 101; missionaries’ influence on, 20, 21; narrative and, 89, 90, 93; nature of, 104, 158; religious exclusivism and, 152; religious literacy understanding and, 189–91; between scholars and community leaders, 216; self-development and, 150; study of, xiii, 42, 81, 84, 114–17; Swidler’s work on, 130; as trait of interreligious studies, 7, 8f, 12

“Dialogue Decalogue” (Swidler), 130

Diamond, Miriam Rosalyn, 55

difference, 129–30, 209, 252n2

Different Paths up the Same/Different Mountains (religious interactions models), 64–65

Diller, Jeanine, xii disciplinary theory, 46–48

discovery, doctrine of, 140

diversity, 101–2, 108, 143–44, 184–87, 189, 200, 212, 249n5

Divinity School (Harvard University), 76

Divinity School (University of Chicago), 234n18

DIYA (Days of Interreligious Youth Action), 207

Donner, Fred, 99

Douglas, Kelly Brown, 214, 253n9

Douglass, Frederick, 141

Drayton, Bill, xvii

Eck, Diana L.: as advocate for pluralism, 47, 249n5; books by, 76; case method, use of, 72, 75–76, 78–80, 84; on interreligious studies, xi; mentioned, 22; Pluralism Project, 111; on Southern Baptists’ description of Hinduism, 131; success of, 3

ecological crises, 161–62

educational systems, 144. See also the academy

Education Department, study on universities’ commitment to diversity, 200

Eight Limbs of Yoga, 241n8 (Meeting Others ch.)

Elder, Linda, 110–11, 120

Eliade, Mircea, 234n18

Ellwood, Robert S., 183

Elon University, 37–41, 43–48

embodiment, 45–46, 132, 160

Emerging Interfaith Trends (Mayhew et al.), 199–200, 208

emic-etic dichotomy, 25

Emmons, Willis, 84

Emory University, 22

empathy, 110

essentialization, resisting, 131–33

ethnography, 109, 114–17

etic-emic dichotomy, 25

Europe, racial discourse of, 138–39

evangelicals, 147–59

evil, goodness versus, 102

The Evolution of American Women’s Studies (Ginsberg), 28

exemplars (religious), 85, 93, 158

experiential learning, 33, 43–46, 50–52, 174, 201

experiential pedagogies, 108–21

extracurricular programs, 3

Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Harvard University), 76

faiths. See religions

Falling Short? College Learning and Career Success (Hart Research, AAC&U), 201, 208

fanaticism, Vivekananda on, 196

Faulkner, William, 133

Feminism Is for Everybody (hooks), 147–48

feminist methodologies, 26

feminist/womanist/mujerista theologies, 24, 129

fieldwork, 32–35, 114–17

First Nations, activism of, 162–64

“Five Ks” (in Sikhism), 119

Fletcher, Jeannine Hill, xiii, xix–xx, 48, 137, 225

formation work (interreligious education), xiii, 172–73

Franklin, Robert M., Jr., 215–16, 218

Freire, Paulo, 33

fulfillment theologies, 21

Gagnebin, Sarah, 52

Gairdner, William Temple, 21

Gandhi, Mohandas, 158–59

GBIO (Greater Boston Interfaith Organization), 178–81

gender, 27, 34, 45–46

Georgetown University, 3

Ghaz 1, 203

Ghazi, Usra, xx, 56, 196, 197, 203, 208, 225

Ghost Dance, 140

Gibson, Otis, 142

Gill, Rahuldeep Singh, 249n3

Ginsberg, Alice E., 28

global interactions of religions, 62, 63

God: in Hinduism, 194. See also Allah; basmala

God Is Not One (Prothero), 85

God of the Oppressed (Cone), 213

good, evil versus, 102

Good Samaritan, 87

Gopin, Mark, 216, 218

Graduate Theological Union, 22

Gravitational Model, 66–67

Gray, Freddie Carlos, Jr., 209, 210–11, 219

Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO), 178–81

Green, Emma, 213

Greene, Joshua, 3

Grelle, Bruce, 13–14

groups, “in” versus “out,” 188

groupthink, 82–83

Grung, Anne Hege, 11

Gula, Richard M., 87

Gustafson, Hans, 51–52, 84

Hadith, 87–88

Haidt, Jonathan, 3

Hall, Tom, 218

Ham, curse of, 139, 140, 244n9

Hamilton, Hurmon, 179, 180

Hanshaw, Mark E., xx, 56, 196, 226

Hart-Celler Act (1965), 143

Hartford Seminary, 22

Hart Research, 201

Harvard University, 4, 5, 75, 76–78, 205

Harvey, Graham, 248n10

Hauerwas, Stanley, 87

havruta (companion) study, 174–75

Haydon, Eustace, 234n18

HBS (Harvard Business School), case method, 75, 76–78

heaven, nature of, 101–2

Hebrew College (HC), 176–77, 249n1

Hedges, Paul, 134

hell, nature of, 101–2

Herrick, Steve, 251n7

Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 217

Hickey, Wakoh Shannon, xix, 108, 110, 112–14, 115, 226

high-impact practices (HIPs), 33

hijabs, 108

Hinduism, 131, 132, 193–94, 245n21

historical memory, 87

Hoffman, Matt, 81–82

Hogan, Linda, 165

Holi celebrations, 37

Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom

Ha’Shoah), 176–77

holy envy, 130–31

hooks, bell, 147–48

hospitals, staff chaplaincy services in, 194

Huffington Post, IJB and, 219

human identity, new forms of, 168–69

human life, purpose of, 101

humility, 110–11

ICJS (Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies), 209–20, 252n2

identity, 54, 135, 148–49, 150–53, 168–69, 174, 175

IFYC (Interfaith Youth Core), 36, 49–50, 53, 83, 109, 201

Illinois College, 57

Imagining Justice in Baltimore (IJB), 210, 214–21

immigration policy, 20, 141–42, 245n22

inclusivity (inclusion), 20–21, 26–35, 148, 154

India, worldview in, 193–94

inequality, difference and, 129–30

informative learning, 88

informed empathy, 234n23

insider-outsider dichotomy, 25

Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies (ICJS), 209–20, 252n2

institutions, xv, 4–5, 192–93, 192f, 232n8. See also prisons, institutional change in

Inter Caetera (Pope Alexander VI), 139

interdisciplinarity, 27–29, 52–54, 71. See also inclusivity

interfaith _____. See entries beginning “interreligious”

Interfaith and Interreligious Studies Group, xiv, 3

“interfaith,” as term, problem of, 10–11

“Interfaith Cooperation and American Higher Education” (IFYC), 201

Interfaith Leadership (Patel), 197

Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), 36, 49–50, 53, 83, 109, 201

interreligious awareness, 96–97

interreligious cities, case study on, 209–20

interreligious competence, 86

interreligious dialogues, 20–21, 189–91

interreligious education (formation work), xiii, 172–73

interreligious encounters, power relations in, 11

interreligious engagement, 20–23, 136

interreligious hatred, 41–43

interreligious learning, 250n12

interreligious learning communities, 210

interreligious literacy, 109

interreligious movement, 36, 38–39, 196, 197

interreligious networks, 219

interreligious studies: antiracist approaches to, 137–46; case method in, 72–84; characteristics of, 26–35; critical thinking on, 36–48; curriculum for, themes from, 49–57; definition of, 12, 49; descriptions of, xiii, 124, 137; evangelicals and, 147–59; experiential pedagogies in, 108–21; interreligious cities, case study on, 209–20; interspecies belonging and, 160–70; introductory courses in, 60–71; issues complicating, 124–36; narrative reflection as pedagogy for, 85–97; prisons, institutional change in, 183–95; the professions and, 196–208; Qur’an, teaching of, to non-Muslims, 98–106; in the secular academy, 2–15; theological educators, adaptation by, 16–25; value of, for religious leaders, 172–82

interreligious triangle, 241n3

interreligious work, xii, xiii intersectionality, 54, 135–36

interspecies belonging, 160–70

“An Introduction to Cases” (HBS case study), 77

introductory courses, 60–71

The Invention of World Religions (Masuzawa), 61–62

Inyan Wakangapi Wakpa (River that

Makes the Sacred Stones), 163

Islam: diversity within, 101–2; feminist theology and, 129; greater jihad of, 119; Judaism, comparison with, 119; misrepresentation of, 98; in prisons, 185; Qur’an, teaching of, to non-Muslims, 98–106; sacred duties in, 103; as subject of IJB, 217

Islamic Society of Baltimore, 218

Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, 205

Jackson, Sherman, 213–14

Jackson, Tito, 206

Jainism, 241n8 (Meeting Others)

Jeremiah (biblical book), 98–99

Jessup, Henry Harris, 19

Jesus Seminar, 99, 240n2

Jewish and Christian Dialogue and Action (CIRCLE seminar), 175

Johnson v. M’Intosh, 139–40

Jones, Robert, xiii–xiv

Judaism: Christianity and, 42–43; ICJS and, 212; Islam, comparison with, 119; Messianic Judaism, 190; as object, 130; in prisons, 185; problem and solution of, 85; stories in, 85, 125; as subject of IJB, 217

Just Peace consortium (see mentions or italicized text), 125, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 136

just peace paradigm, 128

just war theory, 128

Kades, Eric, 140

Kazmi, Salma, 84

Keaten, James, 153

Kegan, Robert, 88

Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University), 205

keystone (capstone) courses, 43–44, 46–47, 86, 92–96

Khidr, 103

Kimmerer, Robin Wall, 249n12

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 158–59, 214

Kitagawa, Joseph, 234n18

Klancher, Nancy, 56

Knitter, Paul, 22

Koldenhoven, Dean, 72–75

Kristof, Nicholas, 154

Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, 3

Kubek, Elizabeth, xiii, xviii, 26, 30–31, 226

Lacan, Jacques, 219

Lamb, Christopher, 151

language, secular, 156

Larson, Marion H., xx, 147, 226

leadership, 86, 191–93, 192f. See also prisons, institutional change in; religious leaders learning, 40, 63–64, 89, 90, 210, 216–17. See also pedagogy

Leirvik, Oddbjørn, xiii lenses (views), 187–89, 192, 204

LGBTQ theologies, 24

liberal bias, 154

liberal education, 111

liberating education, 111

liberation theologies, 24

light (noor), 106

Lincoln, Bruce, 9–10

Linsky, Marty, 77

listening, 23, 104. See also Qur’an, teaching of, to non-Muslims literacy, religious, 182

literature, Tolstoy on, 172

lived experiences, validation of, 29–32

lived realities, religions as, 62–63

Malcolm X, 89

malls, religious worship in, 95–96

Manifest Destiny, 140

Mapping the Future report (Harvard University), 4

Martin, Auguste, 245n16

Marty, Martin, 78

Maruggi, Matthew, xix, 85, 227

Maryland, segregation policies in, 210. See also Imagining Justice in Baltimore (IJB)

Massachusetts, Office for Refugees and Immigrants, 205

mass extinction crisis, 248n2

Massey, Douglas A., 245n22

Masuzawa, Tomoko, 19, 20, 61–62

Mayhew, Matthew J., 204

Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement (Boston), 205

McCarthy, Kate, xii, xviii, 2, 70, 148, 156, 227

McCollum, Patrick, 251n7

McCutcheon, Russell T., 11, 12, 47

McGraw, Barbara A., xii–xiii, xx, 183–95, 227

McKenzie, Alexander, 142

McLaren, Brian, 152

McMillan, Tracie, 31

The Meaning and End of Religion (Smith), 132

mercy (compassion, rahma), 103

Meyer, Cassie, 155

Mikva, Rachel S., xix, 124, 227

Minister, Kevin, xix, 60, 83, 228

minority religions, in prisons, 183–86, 193

misrecognition, 150, 155–56

missionaries, 19, 20, 21

Mobley, Gregory, 250n12

Mohammed (prophet), 99

Moore, Mary Elizabeth, xvii, 180

Mormonism, 119

“A Mosque in Palos Heights” (case study), 72–75, 78

mujerista/feminist/womanist theologies, 24

Müller, Max, 18–19

Muslims, 98, 100–104, 214. See also Islam; Qur’an, teaching of, to non-Muslims

My Neighbor’s Faith (Peace, Rose and Mobley), 67

narrative learning, 85–97

National Bureau of Economic Research, on Baltimore, 212

National Women’s Studies Association, 33–34

Nation of Islam, 89

Native Americans and Native peoples, 139–40, 143, 162–64, 167–68, 185

“native informants,” 126–27

natural world, commodification of, 167

neoliberal nation-states, 48

Neuwirth, Angelika, 99

A New Religious America (Eck), 76

New York Theological Seminary, 22

Nirenberg, David, 42–43

niyamas (personal disciplines, of Yoga), 241n8

“nones” (individuals with no religious affiliations), 5–6, 214

nonhuman beings, relationships with, 166–68

non-Western theologies, marginalization of, 24

noor (light), 106

“A Note on Ambiguities Contained in Covenant and Mission” (US Council of Catholic Bishops), 242n5

Nuclear Model (religious interactions model), 66–67

Nussbaum, Martha, 78

Obama, Barack, 202

objectivity, 13, 17, 20, 95, 110, 127, 134

Office for Refugees and Immigrants (Massachusetts), 205

Office of New Bostonians, 205

Office of Religion and Global Affairs (State Department), 5, 207

OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute), 81

Omi, Michael, 138

On Common Ground (Eck), 76

origin stories, 28

Orsi, Robert, 132

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), 81

the other, 42, 153, 155, 180–81

outsider-insider dichotomy, 25

Padwick, Constance, 21

Palmer, Parker, 91

Palos Heights, IL, as case study location, 72–75

“Park 51 Role Playing Activity” (Aslan), 51

Parliament of World Religions (1893), 196

pastoral care model, in hospitals, 194

Pastrix (Bolz-Weber), 90

Patel, Eboo: on AAR, xii; Acts of Faith, 90, 91; on appreciative knowledge, 100, 155; background, xvi–xvii; biography of, 222; on identity, respect for, 150; on “interfaith,” 197; on the interfaith movement, 38; on interfaith triangle, 241n3; on interreligious studies, 4, 49; on pluralism, 111

patriarchal societies, women in, 28

Pattanaik, Devdutt, 193–94

Paul, Richard, 110–11, 120

Paulist Center (Boston), 205

Peace, Jennifer Howe, xii, xiv, xvi–xvii, xx, 79–80, 172, 222

peace, Mother Teresa on, 172

peace and conflict programs, 3

pedagogy: case method, 51, 72–84; classroom practices in women’s studies, 29–32; essentialism and, 132; experiential, 108–21; introductory courses, transformation of, 60–71; of listening, 104; narrative reflection, 85–97; Qur’an, teaching of, to non-Muslims, 98–106

penitentiary model, 184–85

Pennington, Brian K., xviii, 36, 46, 228

people of color, disadvantaging of, 144. See also African Americans; Native Americans and Native peoples

People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, 145, 246n26

Perkinson, James W., 138

personal disciplines (of Yoga), 241n8

personal narratives, 88–89

personal religious formation, 173–76

perspective-taking, 56

Pesner, Jonah, 180

Pew Research Center, report on religious affiliations, 5

physical landscapes, 165

Piedmont College, 84

Pierce, Ellie, xix, 72, 76, 94, 228

Pinault, David, 45

place, importance of, 164–66

plants, relationships with, 166–68

Plaskow, Judith, 134

Plato, Republic, 87

pluralism, 13, 25, 108, 111–12, 156, 170, 204

Pluralism Project, xi, 75, 77, 83, 84, 111, 134

political theory, 148–49

Politics (Aristotle), 209

Poorvu, Bill, 75

power dynamics, 11, 126, 130, 145

prayer, in Islam, 103

precept exercises, 112–14

Pren, Karen A., 245n22

pre-professional degree programs, 24, 53–54, 70–71

Price, Jennifer, 165

prisons, institutional change in, 183–95

privatized religious pluralism, 65

privilege, 127–29, 138–39, 161

problem method. See case method professions, interreligious studies and, 55, 96, 196–208

proselytization, 127

Protestantism, 18–19, 184–85

Prothero, Stephen, 85

public arena, interreligious leadership in, 203–7, 219

public context for interreligious studies, 5, 14

public good, 148

Pugh, Jeffrey, 42

Putnam, Robert, 3

Qur’an, teaching of, to non-Muslims, 98–106

Qur’an in Conversation (Birkel), 102

race and racism, 135, 138, 140–41

rahma (compassion, mercy), 103

Ramadan, Tariq, 87

Randall, Brendan, 82–83, 239n18

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, 205

recognition, 148–50, 153–56

reflexivity, 109–10

relationships, 164, 166–68

religions (faiths): dimensions of, 133; ecological wisdom of, 160; glocal interactions of, 62, 63; individuals without religious affiliations, 5–6; as lived realities, 62–63; minority religions, in prisons, 183–86, 193; as political traditions, 41–42;

religionization, 18; religio-racial projects, 137, 138–40; religious buildings, repurposing of, 5;

religious communities, value of interreligious studies for, 176–78;

religious confessionalism, 23;

religious context for interreligious studies, 5–6; religious discrimination, possible interreligious studies scholarship on, 247n23; religious diversity, 125–26, 189, 249n5;

religious exercise, RLUIPA on, 186;

religious identity, narrative and, 87;

religious interactions, models of, 64–66; religious literacy, 56–57, 88, 109, 182, 189–91, 237n17; religious minorities, in prisons, 183, 184;

religious neutrality, of interreligious studies, 13; religious pluralism, religious diversity vs., 249n5. See also specific religions

Religious Diversity News (Pluralism Project), 76

Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA, 1993), 186, 251n5

Religious Houses (religious interactions model), 65–66

Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA, 2000), 186, 251n5

religious leaders and leadership, 172–82, 213–15, 249n3

Religious Literacy Project (Harvard Divinity School), 5

religious studies: history of, 8–9; interreligious studies and, 2, 7–8, 8f, 16–17, 109; models for, 23–25; names for, 9–10; principles of, 24–25; relevance of, 69; shifting patterns in, 18–20. See also interreligious studies

representation, politics of, 125–27

“Representing Others” (classroom technique), 117

Republic (Plato), 87

RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 1993), 186, 251n5

Riswold, Caryn, 57

River that Makes the Sacred Stones (Inyan Wakangapi Wakpa), 163

RLUIPA (Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, 2000), 186, 251n5

Roberts, Tyler, 238n6

Rockenbach, Alyssa N., 204

role-play activity, 51

Rose, Or N., xx, 172, 228

Ross, Howard J., 188

Rossiter, Marsha, 89

Rouser, William, 183, 184

Rubens, Heather Miller, xx–xxi, 209, 229

Sacred Ground (Patel), 111

Sacred Stone Camp, 162, 163

Said, Edward, 243n20

Saint Mary’s College of California, 53

sakeena (tranquility), 102

Sale, Kirkpatrick, 165

same-sex marriage, 179–80

Sargent, A. A., 141–42

Sax, Benjamin, xx–xxi, 209, 229

Schlosser, Lewis, 129

Schoen, Robert, 90

scholarship, 33, 216, 243n20

science of religion, 19

Second Vatican Council, 21

sectarianism, Vivekananda on, 196

secular academy. See the academy (secular academy)

secular careers. See professions, interreligious studies and

The Secular City (Cox), 209

segregation, in Baltimore, 211–12

self, 87, 88, 91

seminary education, goals of, 175

service learning, 51–52

Shady, Sara L. H., xx, 147, 229

Sharpe, Eric, 233n7

Sheilaism (religious interactions model), 65–66

Shoulder-to-Shoulder (interfaith group), 81

Siddhartha, 85

Siestra, Marcia, 80–81

“A Sign of Division” (case study), 82

Sikhism, 119

Silverman, Noah J., xvi–xvii, xviii, 49, 223

Simmons College, 55

Singh, Simran Jeet, 246n23

site visits, 43–46, 51

slavery, 140–41, 245n16

Smart, Ninian, 132–33, 234n23

Smith, Christian, 154

Smith, Dan, 178

Smith, Huston, 238n8

Smith, Jonathan Z., 238n12

Smith, Wilfred Cantwell, 11, 132, 181

social disciplines (of Yoga), 241n8

social interactions, Young on, 154

social locations, 109–10

solidarity, 149, 157–59

somatic issues, 45–46

Soukup, Charles, 153

spiritual autobiographies, 89, 91, 96

Standing Rock, 162–64

STEM fields, interreligious studies as link with, 24

Stendahl, Krister, 130–31

Stiles, Ezra, 139

Stopes-Roe, Harry, 242n1

stories, 73, 87–88, 173. See also narrative learning

Stortz, Martha E., xix, 85, 229

St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral (Boston), 205

study of religions. See religious studies

Suárez, Margarita M. W., xix, 108, 110, 117–20, 230

Swidler, Leonard, 10, 130

Syeed, Najeeba, 216, 218

Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius, 105

Syrians, US citizenship of, 245n21

Taylor, Barbara Brown, 84

Taylor, Charles, 150

“Teaching Interfaith Understanding” (faculty-development seminar), 109

teaching strategies. See pedagogy

Teagle Foundation, 53

tenure track positions, xiv

Teresa, Mother, 172

Thatamanil, John, xiii

theological educators, adaptation by, 16–25

theology, 16–17, 20–21, 128

“Theses on Method” (Lincoln), 9

Thind, Bhagat Singh, 245n21

third way, interreligious studies as, 16

Tolstoy, Leo, 172

“Toward a Field of Interfaith Studies” (Patel), xii

tranquility (sakeena), 102

transcontinental railroad, 141

transformation and transformative learning, 87, 88–89, 175

transforming leadership (leadership that transforms), 191–92

trans-religious, as term, 11

Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life (Elon University), 37

Trump, Donald, 5, 149, 248n3

Truth, Sojourner, 141

truth, textual versus embodied, 132

Ummah (community of Muslims), 118–19

“Undoing Racism” training, 246n26

Union Theological Seminary, xiii

United States: citizenship in, 139, 144; colonization of, Christian privileging of, 139; immigration policy, 141–42, 245n22; as White Christian nation (See antiracist approaches to interreligious studies)

University of Chicago, 234n18

University of Notre Dame, 3

University of St. Thomas, 51–52, 84

upper-division courses, narrative as pedagogical method in, 86, 91–92

urbanization, 209

US Army Corps of Engineers, 162–63

US Council of Catholic Bishops, 242n5

US State Department, 5, 205

US Supreme Court, 9, 184

utility, of interreligious studies, 197–200, 202

VALUE rubrics (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education), 120

violence, 101, 211

Virginia, slavery legislation, 141

Vivekananda, Swami, 196

Wadud, Amina, 217

Walsh, Martin, 206

Warren Wilson College, 81

water protectors, 140

Wesley, John, 151

Western Christianity, study of religion and, 19–20

What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew About Judaism (Schoen), 90

white Christian oppression, 199

White Christians, privileging of. See antiracist approaches to interreligious studies

The White L, 211

Whitfield, George, 151

Wicca, 183, 184, 190, 250n1

Wilder, Craig, 139, 144

Wildman, Wesley, 151, 152

Winant, Howard, 138

Winthrop, John, 244n7

Womack, Deanna Ferree, xviii, 16, 230

womanist/feminist/mujerista theologies, 24

women’s studies, 27–29

Women’s Studies as Civic Engagement (National Women’s Studies Association), 33–34

World Council of Churches, 21

world events, impact of, 133–35

World Parliament of Religions, 21

world religions model, 61–62. See also introductory courses

World’s Parliament of Religions (1893), 18–19, 142

Wuthnow, Robert, 3, 154

WYPR, 218

X, Malcolm, 89

yamas (social disciplines, of Yoga), 241n8

Yehezkel Landau, 84

Yoga, Eight Limbs of, 241n8

Yom Ha’Shoah (Holocaust Memorial Day), 176–77

Yoshino, Kenji, 26

Young, Iris Marion, 154, 155, 156, 157–58

Young, Richard Fox, 22

Ziad, Homayra, xx–xxi, 209, 230