Call for Papers: EUARE 2024 Panel on "Interfaith Dialogue as a Theological, Ethical and Spiritual Paradigm Shift"

We are seeking paper proposals for a panel Dr Admirand is chairing at the European Academy of Religion in Palermo, Italy (May 20-23) entitled “Interfaith Dialogue as a Theological, Ethical and Spiritual Paradigm Shift.”

Panel description:

This panel will examine the many ways that interfaith dialogue has and can fundamentally change, purify, and challenge religious and humanist positions. Panel papers can include the following: 

1. Studies and analyses of seminal (or overlooked) interfaith religious texts, thinkers or events that instituted or nudged wholesale or major changes in a religion’s or philosophical outlook, vision, or practice. For Catholics, Nostra Aetate would be the most obvious example—but the field is broad here to include everything from A Common Word to Dabru Emet to the World Parliament of Religions to the many trailblazers or overlooked individuals and institutions working for such change. 

2. The benefits of such institutional, ethical, theological, and spiritual paradigm shifts from encounters in interfaith relations – as well as various challenges and setbacks. Positive points include the role of healthy humility, interfaith learning, and growth, while negative possibilities include an erosion of identity and the uncovering of past and present moral failures towards other faiths and positions. 

3.Case studies or examples of how interfaith dialogue contributed to changes, developments, or deeper incursions in areas of ethics, from the ecological to social justice, sexual ethics, and even space exploration. 

4. The ways and possibilities that interfaith dialogue expands and refines one's spiritual practice. 
 

Proposals of 300-500 words due: 15 February 2024.

This panel is open to 6 proposals.

Email/message peter.admirand@dcu.ie with your proposal or questions.