Understanding Interreligious Relations
Edited by David Cheetham, Douglas Pratt, and David Thomas
Author Information
David Cheetham has been teaching and researching the theology and philosophy of religions for over 15 years. He has published books and numerous articles in this field. He is the author or editor of Ways of Meeting and the Theology of Religions, Contemporary Practice and Method in the Philosophy of Religion, and John Hick. He is Secretary to the European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies.
Douglas Pratt has been teaching and researching in theology, religion, and interreligious relations for over 25 years. He has published seven books and numerous chapters and articles in these fields. Professor of Religious Studies at a New Zealand University, he holds adjunct professorial appointments in Australia and Switzerland. He is the New Zealand Associate of the UNESCO Chair in Intercultural and Interreligious Relations - Asia Pacific, and an Associate of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
David Thomas has been a student and teacher of Islamic religious thought and Christian-Muslim relations for more than 30 years. He is currently Professor of Christianity and Islam and Nadir Dinshaw Professor of Interreligious Relations at the University of Birmingham. Among his most recent works are Christian Doctrines in Islamic Theology and Christian--Muslim Relations, a bibliographical history, vols 1-5.
Contributors:
Nicholas Adams is a lecturer in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Mario Aguilar is Professor of Divinity and Director, Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics, University of St Andrews, UK.
David Cheetham is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, UK.
Catherine Cornille is Professor of Comparative Theology at Boston College, Massachusetts, USA.
Anna Halafoff is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.
Elizabeth Harris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Liverpool Hope University, UK.
Ed Kessler MBE is the Founder Director, Woolf Institute, Cambridge and Fellow of St Edmunds College, Cambridge University, UK.
Jeffery Long is Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, USA.
Marianne Moyaert is Professor of Comparative Theology and Interreligious Dialogue at the Free University of Amsterdam, and is concurrently a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
Peter C. Phan holds the Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Theology Department, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.
Douglas Pratt is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and is Adjunct Professor of Theology and Interreligious Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Perry Schmidt-Leukel is Professor of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology at the University of Muenster, Germany.
Jonathan Y. Tan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Theology, Australian Catholic University, Sydney NSW, Australia.
David Thomas is Professor of Christianity and Islam and Nadir Dinshaw Professor of Inter Religious Relations, University of Birmingham, UK.
David Vishanoff is an Associate Professor in the Religious Studies Program of the University of Oklahoma, USA.
Paul Weller is Professor of Inter-Religious Relations, University of Derby, and Visiting Fellow in the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, UK.
Andrew Wingate OBE is a consultant, teacher and theologian in interfaith relations, and was the founding Director of the St Philip's Centre, Leicester, UK.