"The Archdiocese of Chicago's Office for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs defines 'the difference between ecumenical, interfaith, and interreligious relations'..."
The role of Interfaith dialogue in promoting social justice and equality.
Interfaith Dialogue and Social Justice: A general overview of the relationship between interfaith dialogue and social justice.
Religious Pluralism: Understanding the various religious groups and their beliefs, practices, and values.
Social Diversity: Understanding the different social groups and their challenges and struggles.
Human Rights and Justice: Examining the role of human rights and justice in social change and equity.
Non-Violent Communication: Exploring the principles and practices of non-violent communication for interfaith dialogue and social justice.
Active Listening: Learning to listen actively and attentively to diverse perspectives.
Tolerance and Respect: Understanding and practicing tolerance and respect for diverse religious, cultural and ideological beliefs.
Community Building: Building relationships and communities that embrace diversity, inclusivity, and social justice.
Conflict Resolution: Learning conflict resolution approaches that foster respectful dialogue and understanding.
Advocacy and Activism: Engaging in advocacy and advocacy work for religious tolerance, social justice, and human rights.
Empathy and Compassion: Developing empathy and compassion towards others who experience marginalization, discrimination, and oppression.
Interfaith Cooperation: Learning to collaborate across religious and ideological lines towards common goals of social justice.
Participatory Democracy: Increasing participation in the democratic decision-making process for all members of the community.
Environmental Justice: Examining the impact of environmental degradation on marginalized communities and advocating for environmental justice.
Gender Equality: Advocating for equality in gender identity and expression, regardless of religion or belief system.
Coexistence Dialogue: This type involves communication and understanding between different religious and cultural groups to promote tolerance, respect, and peaceful coexistence.
Theological Dialogue: This type involves dialogue about theological beliefs, practices, and values among different faiths to promote understanding and respect for each other.
Social Action Dialogue: This type involves faith-based communities coming together to work on issues of social justice and to promote the common good.
Interreligious Education Dialogue: This type involves educational initiatives that promote better understanding of the beliefs, practices, and values of different religions.
Multi-faith Worship Dialogue: This type involves different faith groups coming together to worship, sharing each other's religious practices and rituals.
Scriptural Dialogue: This type involves an exchange of common scriptural themes, symbols, and stories from different faiths to foster mutual understanding and unity.
Cooperative Action Dialogue: This type involves joint action and collaboration by different faith communities towards shared goals of social justice, peace, and environmental sustainability.
Youth Dialogue: This type of dialogue involves young people of different faiths coming together to engage in cultural exchange, learning about each other's religions and building friendships.
Women's Dialogue: This type involves women from different faith communities coming together to promote unity and cooperation, and to work towards the empowerment of women.
Conflict Resolution Dialogue: This type of dialogue involves mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution among different religious and cultural groups, with the aim of promoting peace and understanding.
"...dialogue often involves promoting understanding between different religions or beliefs to increase acceptance of others, rather than to synthesize new beliefs."
"'ecumenical' as 'relations and prayer with other Christians', 'interfaith' as 'relations with members of the 'Abrahamic faiths' (Jewish, Muslim and Christian traditions)', and 'interreligious' as 'relations with other religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism'."
"Some interfaith dialogues have more recently adopted the name interbelief dialogue, while other proponents have proposed the term interpath dialogue..."
"...to transcend all worldviews (whether religious, cultural, or political), termed transbelief dialogue."
"...the term interreligious is preferred because we are referring explicitly to dialogue with those professing religions... and is based on religious foundations."
"The often quoted 'There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions' was formulated by Hans Küng..."
"Interfaith dialogue forms a major role in the study of religion and peacebuilding."
"...dialogue often involves promoting understanding between different religions or beliefs to increase acceptance of others..."
"'interfaith' as 'relations with members of the 'Abrahamic faiths' (Jewish, Muslim and Christian traditions)'"
"Some interfaith dialogues have more recently adopted the name interbelief dialogue...to avoid implicitly excluding atheists, agnostics, humanists, and others with no religious faith..."
"...to transcend all worldviews (whether religious, cultural, or political), termed transbelief dialogue."
"...the term interreligious is preferred because we are referring explicitly to dialogue with those professing religions – who identify themselves explicitly with a religious tradition and whose work has a specific religious affiliation and is based on religious foundations."
"Neither are the same as nondenominational Christianity."
"Throughout the world there are local, regional, national and international interfaith initiatives; many are formally or informally linked and constitute larger networks or federations."
"There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions."
"...dialogue often involves promoting understanding between different religions or beliefs to increase acceptance of others..."
"Following the lead of the Roman Catholic Church, other churches and Christian religious organizations... have increasingly opted to use the word interreligious rather than interfaith to describe their own dialogue and engagement with other religions."
"...hosted public reasoning dialogues to transcend all worldviews..."
"Some proponents have proposed the term interpath dialogue... to be more accurate concerning many world religions that do not place the same emphasis on 'faith' as do some Western religions."