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One does not naturally think of traditional nuns of the Order of St Benedict as popular singers, yet the sisters from a rural Missouri monastery, The Heart of Mary, have become something of a hit. Their albums are ranked as best-selling by...

Sampling the scriptures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Derk Hartwig, the writer of this article, points out how the Islamic faith came to reevaluate religious universalism by addressing all of humanity...

This is a book focused on how Muslims, Jews, and Christians have “loved, tolerated, massacred, and expelled each other – all in the name of God..

Intended to contribute to the issues of religious pluralism and intercultural acceptance in a society based on migration and globalization, the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Interreligious studies aims at an international audience of young people (age between 20 and 35 years) interested and engaged interreligious dialogue, religious leaders, students, lay persons and professionals with a suitable level of religious literacy and/or experience in...

The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen offers a three-year scholarship to complete a PhD in Theology and Religious Studies...

This volume is an important contribution to understanding the impact of the key polemical Qur’anic passages about Judaism and Christianity that shaped Muslim theology of the ‘other.’ Sirry’s meticulous reading of the Qur’anic commentaries to expound this theology is thoroughly grounded in both the classical as well as the modernist-reformist …

The fruit of a sustained and close collaboration between historians, linguists and jurists working on the Christian, Muslim and Jewish societies of the Middle Ages, this book explores the theme of religious coexistence (and the problems it poses) from a resolutely...

At the present time, when so-called Islamic radicalism, terrorism and Jihadism occupy major media space, with Islam often depicted as the main culprit, the book attempts a...

Slavery is one of the oldest evils of society which defied the attempts of reformers for so many centuries. Ancient civilisations could not eradicate slavery, so they compromised with...

Call for Papers: Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies at the Old Library of the University Church of St Mary...