Pope Francis and Interreligious Dialogue

Harold Kasimow is the George Drake Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Grinnell College, USA.

Alan Race is an Anglican priest-theologian. He is currently Chair of the World Congress of Faiths, and Editor of its journal Interreligious Insight.

This book engages thinkers from different religious and humanist traditions in response to Pope Francis's pronouncements on interreligious dialogue. The contributors write from the perspectives of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Humanism. Each author elaborates on how the pope's openness to dialogue and invitation to practical collaboration on global concerns represents a significant achievement as the world faces an uncertain future. The theological tension within the Catholic double commitment to evangelization on the one hand, and dialogue on the other, remains unresolved for most writers, but this does not prevent them from praising the strong invitation to dialogue-especially with the focus on justice, peace, and ecological sustainability. 

1. Introduction.- 2. In His Own Words.- 3.. "The Church Also Is Enriched When She Receives the Values of Judaism": Shared Faith Responses to Pope Francis and Interreligious Dialogue.- 4.  On Donkey Drivers, Interreligious Dialogue, and Shared Tasks: A Jewish Response to Pope Francis on Interreligious Relations and Collaboration.- 5.  Is Pope Francis an Anonymous Feminist?.- 6. Is the Pope Catholic? A Question of Identity in Pope Francis's Practical Theology of Interreligious Dialogue.- 7. Pope Francis's Compassion.- 8.  Pope Francis, Islam, and Dialogue.- 9.  Cautious Hope: Hindu Reflections on Pope Francis.- 10. Do We Have a Religious Need for Each Other? Pope Francis and Interreligious Dialogue.- 11. A Sikh in Dialogue with Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium.- 12. Let's Get Off Our Cell Phones and Hear a Sikh Maxim from Pope Francis.- 13.  Toward Dialogue with Pope Francis: A Japanese Buddhist Perspective.- 14.  What Do We Share? A Secular-Humanist Response.- 15.  Be Friends and Help the World: The Contributions of Pope Francis to Interreligious and Secular Relations.