A comprehensive collection provides guidance and deep insight from a variety of experts in this emerging field

The rapidly developing field of interreligious studies fosters scholarship engaging two or more religious traditions at a time. Inherently multidisciplinary, the field brings the academic consideration of religions into conversation with the humanities and social sciences, employing relational, intersectional, experiential, and dialogical methodologies as it examines the interrelationship of individuals and groups with differing alignments toward religion.

Edited by Lucinda Mosher, The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies features an international roster of practitioners of or experts on Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Ruism, Humanism, and African, North American, and South American Indigenous lifeways. Each author offers a unique perspective on the nature of this emerging discipline.

This companion provides fifty thought-provoking chapters on the history, priorities, challenges, distinguishing pedagogies, and practical applications of interreligious studies. Anyone who seeks a deeper appreciation of this relatively new academic field will find it useful as a textbook or research resource.

Lucinda Mosher is a faculty associate in chaplaincy and interreligious studies; codirector of the Master of Arts in Chaplaincy program; and senior scholar for Executive and Professional Education, all at the Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. She is the senior editor of the Journal of Interreligious Studies. Every year, Mosher serves as the rapporteur for the Building Bridges Seminar, an international dialogue of Christian and Muslim scholars under the stewardship of Georgetown University. She holds a doctorate of theology degree from the General Theological Seminary.

"The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies is the most comprehensive, representative, and interdisciplinary missive from the field to date."