Symposium on Educating Religious Leaders

The 2009 Parliament featured special programming sessions on these topics through the Symposium on Educating Religious Leaders for a Multi-Religious World.

Syllabus Examples

Syllabi for the 2009 Parliament

The following syllabi were used in preparation for the Parliament by participating seminaries.

• Boston Theological Institute

• Candler School of Theology

• Catholic Theological Union

• Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Graduate Theological Union

• Hartford Seminary

• Harvard Divinity School

• Sound Vision Foundation

• Union Theological Seminary

• Vanderbilt Divinity School

• Yale Divinity School

Other Example Syllabi

The following syllabi are from classes that have previously been taught in areas of interfaith study. They represent the type of interfaith education that is essential for our future religious leaders to have in our increasingly pluralistic world.

World Religions

General

• K. Kwakye-Nuako: World Religions

• Paul D. Numrich: Comparative Study Of Missionary Religions

• Paul D. Numrich: Introduction To World Religions

Hybrid With Engaging In Dialogue

• Robert Hunt: World Religions And Christianity: A Global Perspective

Hybrid With Interfaith Relations

• S. Wesley Ariarajah: The Challenge Of World Religions To Christian Faith And Practice

• Diana L. Eck: World Religions: Diversity And Dialogue

Particular Traditions

• Sr. Marianne Farina Csc: Understanding Islam

• Ruth Langer And Philip Cunningham: Jews And Christians: Understanding The Other

• Paul D. Numrich: Perspectives On Buddhism

• Paul D. Numrich: Islam

Interfaith Relations

• Judith Berling And Jeff Richey: Christians And Religious Neighbors

• Robin Jensen And Prof. Ruth Langer: From Diatribe To Dialogue: Studies In The Jewish-Christian Encounter

• Paul Knitter: Christian-Muslim Dialogue

• Paul D. Numrich: Christian Responses To Other Religions

• Paul D. Numrich: Christian-Muslim Relations

• Eboo Patel And Cassie Meyer: Interfaith Action In The World

• Dennis Sasson And Dean Clark Williamson: Dialogue Between Jews And Christians

• Yehezkel Landau: Job and Jonah: Suffering, Repentance, and Spiritual Transformation

• Yehezkel Landau: Pluralistic Monostheism and the Abrahamic Faiths

• Ray Gaston: Presence and Engagement Christianity and Religious Plurality

Interfaith Dialogue

About Dialogue

• Jeffrey Carlson: Buddhist-Christian Dialogue

• Paul Knitter: Dealing With Diversity: Christian And Buddhist Perspectives

Engaging In Dialogue

• Suendam Birinci, Heidi Hadsell And David Roozen: Dialogue In A World Of Difference

• Yehezkel Landau: Building Abrahamic Partnerships

• Yehezkel Landau: Building Abrahamic Partnerships II

• Yehezkel Landau: Religion, Conflict, and Peacemaking

• James D. Redington, Sj: Interreligious Dialogue

Theology Of Religions

• S. Wesley Ariarajah: Theology Of Religions In The Ecumenical Movement

• Paul Knitter: Theologies Of Religions

• James D. Redington, Sj: Theology Of Religions

Other

• S. Wesley Ariarajah: Cross-Cultural Immersion Course To India

• Kirk Jones And Or Rose: Spirituality & Social Justice: Martin Luther King, Jr. & Abraham Joshua Heschel

• Paul Knitter: Dealing With Diversity: Evangelical/Pentecostal And Mainline Perspectives On Religious Pluralism

• Paul Knitter: Religions And Poverty

• Paul D. Numrich: Comparative Study Of Religious Ethics

• Paul D. Numrich: Multi-Religious America