Since 1964, the Journal of Ecumenical Studies has been the premiere academic journal in the field of interreligious dialogue. It pages have been devoted to important research and scholarly investigations, and its audience has been largely clergy, interreligious professionals and academicians.
Recently, however, JES published a special issue, edited by Rebecca Kratz Mays. This issue offers a wonderful review of the growing field of grass roots endeavors between religious groups and individuals in this country.
The topic is so important( and the collection so well conceived and executed) that Temple University press has published the volume as an attractively produced paperback book.
Interfaith Dialogue at the Grassroots is as a valuable resource for anyone wanting to learn more about the growing edge of multifaith world.
Interesting post. I have just posted something on interreligous dialogue, with comments representing very different positions. Here is the link in case you are interested: http://deligentia.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/messiah-moon/
Making interreligious dialogue perhaps more difficult than it need be, those of us interested in the religious domain tend to miss the obvious: that we share an interest in the same domain. Our intra-domain differences, I submit, are dwarfed by the distance from our planet to others…such as the planet of the stock market enthusists. For more, if you are interested, pls see my post. http://deligentia.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/missing-the-obvious-in-religious-discussion-something-we-have-in-common/
In the inter-religious dialogue of “the three amigos,” their respective self-criticisms is particularly important because their act of doing so implicitly challenges the typical way religion is understood (see http://deligentia.wordpress.com on this), at least in the modern context. What if the practice were to spread?