Upcoming International Conference on Inter-religious Dynamics and Mutual Engagement, Tel Aviv 2015

The conference, to be held at Tel Aviv between Sunday afternoon, December 13, 2015, and Tuesday evening, December 15, will be dedicated to the idea that, because of their revelational and theological entanglement, the three Abrahamic religions have developed since the inception of Christianity in fertile and fervid interaction far more meaningful and formative to their unfolding than the unwitting influences of other contextual factors. So much so, that it is impossible to properly understand any significant moment in the life of any one of the three, without taking into serious account the real and imagined, conscious and unconscious dialogue between the community under study and the other two.
To this end, the three religions must be studied and taught side by side by experts in each collaborating closely across the three interreligious divides. Such an undertaking requires an integrated effort involving the full range of the human and social sciences. And given its sheer scope and complexity, no university can hope to accomplish it alone.
The 2nd International Conference in Interreligious Studies, organized and sponsored by the Tel Aviv University Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies (CRIS), the Cambridge University Project for Religion in the Humanities (CUPRiH), and the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, brings together an impressive group of scholars committed to collaborating in studying the three faiths interreligiously, rather than merely comparatively, as the dynamic outcomes of intense and complex interreligious interaction.

Conference Poster and Program in available here.

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Menachem Fisch, Meeting the Challenge of Nostra Aetate 50 Years Later

On September 17, 2014, Menachem Fisch, Director of CRIS and Paul Griffiths of Duke Divinity School, has addressed, in lectures given at Duke University, the way Judaism can rise to the challenge of Dignitatis Humanae and Nostra Aetate. Watch the lectures and discussion here

Early Career seminar, Cambridge 2015

The 3rd joint graduate workshop between CRIS, CUPRiH and Goethe Universität Frankfurt has taken place in Cambridge on May 26th-28th 2015. The workshop continuted the former year's overarching theme of The Dynamics of Interreligious Interaction.

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With God on Our Side, International Conference, 2013

A Collaborative International Conference, With God on Our Side: Holy War and Sacred Struggle in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, has taken place in Tel Aviv University in 2-4 June, 2013.

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CRIS and CUPRiH Graduate Seminar, Cambridge 2014

A joint graduate seminar between CRIS and CUPriH has taken place in Cambridge on May 25th-28th 2014. The topic of the seminar was The Dynamics of Interreligious Interaction.

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