Talk:Interreligious studies

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Draft:Interfaith studies

Some content from there may be useful here. @Operarioribeiro @Wikishovel _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:07, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, cool because it seems that page developed coincidentally to my sandbox draft (June 2022). It covers the same topic, with some more content. I believe "interreligious studies" is the best title. Might be best if some of the authors of the draft would copy their sections here, though I suppose it can be done by anyone. ProfGray (talk) 13:42, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Information from the draft, that would be worth adding, include:

• Institutional support from UN, if it is academic and not only promoting dialogue -- Added source but text incorrect
• Joint TAU - Goethe center, 9/23 item -- https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/138736504/buber_CfA_SummerSchool_2023.pdf? -- Added to article
• AIIS info -- Added to article
• Concerns about academic approach vs. advocacy of interfaith collaboration, see NYT article from the draft: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/us/alaboratory-for-interfaith-studies-in-pennsylvania-dutch-country.html -- Added to article
• Research reviews, like this review of 47 empirical studies of interfaith initiatives https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13617672.2023.2196486 -- Added to article
• Two bibliographic items -- Mikva and Leirvik books, which clearly have an academic focus

Some of the draft could contribute to the article on Interfaith dialogue, i.e., activities that are themselves the subject of academic interreligious studies. ProfGray (talk) 16:40, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

I've added sentences and sources from this draft, as noted above. However, much of the draft is actually suitable for the article on interfaith dialogue or advocates for dialogue and research, so lacks NPOV. It is not clear what else can be suitably merged into the interreligious studies article. ProfGray (talk) 11:00, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@ProfGray Nice. I encourage you to leave a review comment about this for the draft so that it is not subject to further reviews wasting reviewer time (and risking creating a WP:POVFORK). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:50, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@Piotrus -- As you suggested, I left a review comment on the draft. The draft can be retained, since its sources can be mined for this article or Interfaith dialogue. I hope the wording and location of my comment are what you had in mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft%3AInterfaith_studies&diff=1216155763&oldid=1216123920 Thanks, ProfGray (talk) 12:13, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Adding this comment to reiterate that the previous draft is not suitable for this article on Interreligious Studies. Some pieces were used, as noted above. But there are NPOV concerns, as noted by myself and Piotr. Please discuss further at Talk page here before adding more content from that Draft. cc: User:Klbrain, thank you. ProfGray (talk) 20:25, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Recent revisions to the article (March '24)

Hi. There was a section on "Academic institutions" that was removed.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Interreligious_studies&diff=prev&oldid=1215926139 I'd appreciate discussion of this removal. To understand any academic discipline, the institutional resources are quite relevant, so I would like to reinstate and expand this section. @Otuọcha

The "Further Reading" section is now much better formatted, thanks. But many items were removed -- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Interreligious_studies&diff=prev&oldid=1215923274 I'm fine with streamlining, but I would like discussion of criteria for inclusion or removal, so we can agree on which items are best for that section.

It'd be good to have a section on the tension (or controversy?) within the field between secular scientific studies and more activist scholarship that itself promotes or engages in interreligious dialogue. Quite a few sources discuss this tension Any concerns or objections? ProfGray (talk) 17:17, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

My major concern was that it seems to be a statistics with no citation; though not regularly penetrating with the inline topic. It was written per a school case (whereas there are many theological schools that offers the academic field.) All the Best! Otuọcha (talk) 19:09, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Georgetown academic anthology

The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies, edited by Lucinda Mosher

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=tiZZEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=related:063wS3W1vOcJ ProfGray (talk) 15:35, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Great, please keep in mind that this article is about the academic discipline. There is a distinct and separate article on the topic of Interfaith dialogue.

A good starting point would be this book: Mikva, Rachel. Interreligious studies: an introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2023 and an earlier book: Patel, Eboo, Jennifer Howe Peace, and Noah Silverman. Interreligious/interfaith studies: Defining a new field. Beacon Press, 2018. ProfGray (talk) 11:29, 28 October 2024 (UTC)