The Role of Islam and Christianity in Public Space. Perspectives from Indonesia and Germany

This article examines the role of academic lived space and the civil sphere in fostering interreligious engagement within Indonesian university campuses and broader society. While Indonesian classrooms have long functioned as lived spaces for interreligious dialogue, grassroots initiatives have further cultivated a civil sphere conducive to mutual interreligious interaction. This study draws...

In the past 20 years, Interreligious Studies (IRS), as an academic field of study, has grown rapidly, and its proponents/ practitioners are still engaged in debating its object(s) of study, approaches and other aspects. In some understandings of the field, IRS is conceived as going beyond an academic enterprise, but also aspiring to interreligious engagement, with its more normative objective...

In many contexts, religious plurality is perceived either as dangerous or as fragile, depending on the assessment of the power and impact of religious actors and religious traditions. In recent decades, interreligious collaboration has become an avenue for taking a more constructive approach to religious plurality and for resisting pervasive mechanisms of exclusion. One important aspect is...