LFU:online

The students should

• get a good understanding of the present state of Christian-Muslim dialogue.
• develop a good understanding of the key points in Christian-Muslim dialogue today.
• get to know some of the experts in the different aspects of the topic working inside and outside the Kircher network.
• develop a good understanding of the differences in each country when facing religious pluralism and Muslim presence in concrete.  
• learn openness and sensibility to the role of religion in building peaceful democratic societies.

The theological framework for the Christian-Muslim dialogue will be reviewed and enriched by interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. The course´s core will be a theology of Christian-Muslim dialogue at the intersection of practical and systematic reflections.

The course will combine online asynchronous and synchronous learning activities.
a.    Prior to the online session: In an asynchronous mode, students will have to complete the readings assigned for the session and participate in an Online Forum .
b.    Video conferencing synchronous sessions: Each 90 minutes-session would consist of a synchronous class offered through video conferencing. Each session will include the following teaching and learning activities:
1.    Lecture (30 minutes)
2.    Discussion in small groups (15 minutes)
3.    Assembly discussion (15 minutes)
4.    Deepening on the readings with different pedagogical methods (i.e. Padlets , YouTube videos, Arte TV...)  (20 minutes)
5.    Final synthesis (10 minutes)

Active participation in class (20%) and final paper (80%).

• Ahmed, Shahab (2016): What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Becker, Karl J. y Morali, Ilaria (eds.), Catholic Engagement with World Religions: A Comprehensive Study, Orbis, Maryknoll: NY 2010.
• Borrmans, Maurice, Guidelines for Dialogue between Christian and Muslims, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.  Paulist Press, NY, 1990. pp.132
• Cesari, Jocelyne (2014) (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of European Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Comission of the Bishops Conferences of the European Community, Islam, Christianity and Europe: religious dimension of intercultural dialogue, 2008.
• Crone, Patricia, God’s Rule: Government and Islam, New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
• Fitzgerald, Michael (2017) Praise the Name of the Lord. Meditations on the Names of God in the Qur’an and the Bible. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press.
• Goddard, Hugh (2000): A History of Christian-Muslim Relations. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Griffith, Sidney (2008): The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Mayer, Ann Elizabeth, Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics, Boulder, CO: Westview Press 1991.
• Moyaert, Marianne: Fragile Identities. Towards a Theology of interreligious Hospitality. NY 2011.
• Pratt, Douglas: Christian Engagement with Islam. Ecumenical Journeys since 1910. Brill 2017.
• Renard, John: Islam and Christianity. California Press 2011.
• Sabra, George, Christian-Muslim dialogue in the Middle East: Tradition and the Exigences of Context. Beirut: theologica Review, 1978.
• Siddiqui, Mona (2014) Christians, Muslims & Jesus. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Thomas, David (2017) (ed.) Routledge Handbook on Christian-Muslim Relations. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge.
• Thomas, David et al. (Ed.): Christian Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Leiden: Brill. (ongoing series)
• Voll, John, Islam: Continuity and Change in the Muslim World, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press 1994.

None.

Course will be held in English.
The fist session will be in the classroom, all other sessions will be online.