From conversion to conversation: Interfaith dialogue in post 9-11 America

Muslim World

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 343-355

  Takim, Liyakatali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

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EID: 27944479556     PISSN: 00274909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-1913.2004.00058.x     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Sulayman Nyang, "Challenges Facing Christian-Muslim Dialogue in the United States," in Christian-Muslim Encounters, ed. Y. Haddad, 328
2. Douglas Johnston, Faith-Based Diplomacy: Trumping Realpolitik (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 56
3. M. Darrol Bryant, Overcoming History: On the Possibilities of Muslim-Christian Dialogue," in Muslim-Christian Dialogue: ed. M. Darrol Bryant and S. A. Ali, 34
4. David Chappell, "Interreligious Dialogue, Globalization, and Human Rights: Buddhist Reflections on Interdependence and the Declaration," in Human Rights and Responsibilities in the World Religions, eds. Joseph Runzo, Nancy Martin, and Arvinda Sharma (Oxford: Oneworld, 2003), 191
5. Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace, A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation (Nashville: Abingdon, 1996), 75
6. On the different forms that exclusion and othering can take see Marc Gopin, Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 67
7. Miroslav Volf, Exclusion, 76
8. The root of the term tolerance comes from the medieval toxicology and pharmacology, marking how much poison a body could tolerate before it would succumb to death. See Omid Safi, "Introduction: The Times are A-Changin; - A Muslim Quest for Justice, Gender Equality, and Pluralism," in Progessive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism, ed. Omid Safi (Oxford: Oneworld, 2003), 24
9. On specific steps toward building new relationship see Marc Gopin, Holy War, chapter 10
10. Liyakatali Takim, "Foreign Influences on American Shi'ism," The Muslim World, 90 (Fall, 2000)
11. Tariq Ramadan, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004), 209
12. See the details cited in Jacques Waardenburg, Muslims and Others, 438-41
13. On examples of violence in different religious traditions see Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000)