Interreligious Dialogue

List of Readings and Resources for Interreligious Dialogue

 I. GENERAL RESOURCES

• Interreligious Dialogue (Resources for Catholic Educators)
• Interfaith Links (Dominican Centre for Interfaith, Ministry, Education, and Research)
• Resources for Interreligious Dialogue (Dialogue Institute at Temple University)
• Articles on Religious Pluralism (Pluralism Project, Harvard University)
• Articles on Muslim-Christian Dialogue (Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations, Hartford Seminary)
• Resources on Interreligious Dialogue (Spring Hill College Library)
  • Jewish-Christian Dialogue
  • Muslim-Christian Dialogue
  • Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
  • Hindu-Christian Dialogue
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II. OFFICIAL CHURCH DOCUMENTS

World Council of Council

• Guidelines for Dialogue with People of Living Faiths and Ideologies (1979)
• Religious Plurality and Christian Self Understanding (2006)
• Ecumenical Considerations for Dialogue and Relations with People of Other Religions (2004)
• Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World: Recommendations for Conduct (2011)

Roman Catholic

• Roman Catholic Documents on Interreligious Dialogue (Creighton University)
• Vatican II, Declaration on Non-Christian Religions (Nostra aetate)
• United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Asian and Pacific Presence: Harmony in Faith (2001)

Episcopal

• Statement on Interreligious Relations (General Convention, 2009)

United Methodist

• Call to be Neighbors and Witnesses: Guidelines for Interreligious Relationships (Resolution, 3142, Book of Resolutions, 2008)

III. ORGANIZATIONS

• Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue 
• Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
• Service of Documentation and Study on Global Mission (SEDOS)
• Monastic Interreligious Dialogue (North American Benedictine and Cistercian Monasteries of Men and Women)
• Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
• Jesuit Interreligious Dialogue and Relations (Creighton University)

IV. ECUMENICAL

• S. Wesley Ariarajah, "Interfaith Dialogue" (Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement)
• S. Wesley Ariarajah, "Some Glimpses into the Theology of Dr. Stanley Samartha" (World Council of Churches)

V. ROMAN CATHOLIC

• Jacques Dupuis:
  • "Christianity and Religions: From Confrontation to Dialogue," The Tablet Open Day 2001 Lecture. 
  • "Religious Plurality and the Christological Debate," SEDOS
• Leonard Swidler:
  • "The Dialogue Decalogue: Ground Rules for Interreligious, Interideological Dialogue," Dialogue Institute
  • "The Seven Stages of Deep Dialogue/Cricial Thinking." Dialogue Institute
• Edmund Chia:
  • "A New Way of Being Church" SEDOS
  • "New Evangelization: A Pastoral Problem." SEDOS
    
• Thomas Michel:
  • "Toward a Pedagogy of Religious Encounter" 
  • Articles on Muslim-Christian Relations
  •  "Where to Now? Ways Forward for Interreligious Dialogue: Images of Abraham As Models of Interreligious Encounter" Fethullah Gulen Conference, Melbourne 2009
• Wayne Teasdale, Interreligious Dialogue Since Vatican II: The Monastic Contemplative Dimension, Spirituality Today 43 no. 2 (Summer 1991): 119-133
• Chrys McVey, "Outside the Camp," SEDOS
• Gerald Hall, "Multi-Faith Dialogue in Conversation with Raimon Panikkar," Australian Association for the Study of Religions 2003 Annual Conference

VI. MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE

• National Jewish Scholars Project, "Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity" Source 1 (Boston College Center for Jewish Christian Learning) Source 2 (Jewish Christian Relations). Source 3 (Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies).
• Jon D. Levenson, "How not to conduct Jewish-Christian Dialogue," Commentary (December 2001).
• Yehudah Mirsky, "Jewish-Christian Dialogue Today," Jewish Ideas Daily (February 21, 2011)
• "Confrontation: Then and Now." Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik on Interreligious Dialogue: 40 Years Later. Proceedings of Conference at Boston College Center for Jewish-Christian Learning (2003).

VII. MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE

• A Common Word Between Us and You (Official Website)
• Loving God and Neighbor Together: A Christian Response to a “Common Word Between Us and You”