Dialogue for Interreligious Understanding: Strategies for the Transformation of Culture-Shaping Institutions (Interreligious Studies in Theory and Practice)

This invaluable volume gathers together the cumulative insight of more than fifty years of Leonard Swidler's work in interreligious dialogue. The founder and president of the Dialogue Institute, Swidler offers through experience and research his theory and tools of interreligious, intercultural, and international dialogue. Offering a "dialogue on dialogue", he explains why diatribe, debate, and other aggressive stances against those who think differently are ultimately unproductive and unhelpful. Swidler offers his tried-and-true methods for engaging in Deep-Dialogue, Critical-Thinking, Emotional-Intelligence, and Competitive-Cooperation, as well as "common sense" guidelines are made available for the novice and expert alike in order to break out of own perspective in order to have real encounter and dialogue.