'Only a scholar with many years of sincere and serious engagement with faith communities and a commitment to an honest and critical examination of the ethics and theology of interreligious studies could have produced this excellent book. I can hardly wait to introduce Rabbi Mikva's Interreligious Studies to my Theology students.' Ingrid Mattson, Chair of Islamic Studies, Huron at Western University, London, Canada Author, The Story of the Qur'an
Part I. Mapping the Field: 1. Introducing interreligious studies; 2. Challenges in naming and navigating religious difference; 3. A selective history of interreligious studies and engagement; 4. Ethical, philosophical, and theological grounds of parity pluralism; Part II. Meeting Spaces: 5. Meeting difference everywhere; 6. Media, old and new; 7. Interreligious encounter in the public square; 8. Antisemitism and Islamophobia; Part III. Modes of Engagement: 9. Practices of interreligious engagement; 10. Dialogue; 11. Study and spiritual encounter; 12. Community-based service, organizing, and advocacy; 13. Arts; 14. Conflict transformation.