Interreligious Studies Resource List

Interreligious Studies

  • Berling, Judith. Understanding Other Religious Worlds: A Guide for Interreligious Education (Orbis Books, 2004)
  • Cheetham, David, Douglas Pratt, and David Thomas, eds. Understanding Interreligious Relations (Oxford University Press, 2013)
  • Cornille, Catherine. Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019)
  • Cornille, Catherine. The Im-Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue (Herder & Herder, 2008)
  • Cunningham, David S. ed., Hearing Vocation Differently: Meaning, Purpose and Identity in the Multi-Faith Academy (Oxford University Press, 2019)
  • D’Costa, Gavin. Theology and Religious Pluralism (Blackwell, 1986).
  • D’Costa, Gavin, 1989, “Theology of Religions”, (in David Ford, D. (ed.), The Modern Theologians, Oxford: Blackwell, 1989).
  • Diller, Jeanine. “Toward a Field of Interfaith Studies” Journal of Interreligious Studies 16 (2015)
  • DiNoia, Joseph J. A., The Diversity of Religions: A Christian Perspective (Catholic University of America Press, 1992).
  • Fernandez, Eleazar S. ed., Teaching for a Multifaith World (Wipf and Stock, 2017).
  • Goshen-Gottstein, Alon, Interreligious Heroes: Role Models and Spiritual Exemplars for Interfaith Practice (Wipf & Stock, 2021)
  • Goshen-Gottstein, Alon, The Jewish Encounter with Hinduism: History, Spirituality, Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
  • Gustafson, Hans. Everyday Wisdom: Interreligious Studies in a Pluralistic World (Fortess Press, 2023)
  • Gustafson,Hans. Interreligious Studies: Dispatches from an Emerging Field (Baylor University Press, 2020)
  • Hart, D.G. The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education (John Hopkins University Press, 2002)
  • Hedges, Paul. Understanding Religion: Theories and Methods for Studying Religiously Diverse Societies (University of California Press, 2021).
  • Hedges, Paul. "Interreligious Engagement and Identity Theory: Assessing the Theology of Religions Typology as a Model for Dialogue and Encounter" (published in the Journal of the Academic Study of Religion).
  • Hedges, Paul. Comparative Theology: A Critical and Methodological Perspective (Brill, 2017).
  • Hedges, Paul. Controversies in the Theology of Religions (SCM Press, 2010).
  • Hick, John & Paul Knitter, eds. The Myth of Christian Uniqueness: Toward a Pluralistic Theology of Religions (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2004).
  • Howard, Thomas Albert. The Faiths of Others: A History of Interreligious Dialogue (Yale University Press, 2021)
  • Jackson, Robert, Rethinking Religious Education and Plurality: Issues in Diversity and Pedagogy (Routledge, 2004)
  • Kärkkäinen, Veli-Matti. Christian Theology in the Pluralistic World: A Global Introduction (Eerdmans, 2019).
  • Kärkkäinen, Veli-Matti. An Introduction to the Theology of Religions: Biblical, Historical, and Contemporary Perspectives (InterVarsity Press, 2003).
  • Kärkkäinen, Veli-Matti and Harold Netland. Religious Pluralism: The Challenge to Christian Faith and Mission (InterVarsity Press, 2001)
  • Kearney, R. & J. Taylor (eds) Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions (Continuum, 2011)
  • Knitter, Paul. Introducing Theologies of Religions (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1992)
  • Knitter, Paul, ed., The Myth of Religious Superiority: A Multifaith Exploration (Orbis Books, 2005)
  • Knitter, Paul and Alan Race, eds. New Paths for Interreligious Theology: Perry Schmidt-Leukel's Fractal Interpretation of Religious Diversity (Orbis Books, 2019)
  • Leivrik, Oddbjørn. Interreligious Studies: A Relational Approach to Religions Activism and the Study of Religion (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)
  • McCarthy, Kate. Interfaith Encounters in America (Rutgers University Press, 2007).
  • McGraw, Barbara. Rediscovering America’s Sacred Ground: Public Religion and Pursuit of the Good in a Pluralistic America (State University of New York Press, 1999).
  • Meister, Chad V., The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2010)
  • Mikva,Rachel. Interreligious Studies: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
  • Mitias, Michael, Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
  • Mosher, Lucinda, The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies (Georgetown University Press, 2022)
  • Moyaert, Marianne. Fragile Identities: Towards a Theology of Interreligious Hospitality (Rodopi, 2011)
  • Moyaert, Marianne, Interreligious Relations and the Negotiation of Ritual Boundaries: Explorations in Interrituality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
  • Netland, Harold. Dissonant Voices: Religious Pluralism and the Quest of Truth (Eerdmans, 1991).
  • Netland, Harold. Religious Pluralism: The Challenge to Christian Faith and Mission (InterVarsity Press, 2001).
  • Nussbaum, Martha. The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013).
  • Patel, Eboo. Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America (Beacon Press, 2013).
  • Patel, Eboo, Jennifer Howe Peace and Noah J. Silverman, eds., Interreligious/Interfaith Studies: Defining a New Field (Beacon Press, 2018).
  • Peace, Jennifer Howe et al., My Neighbor’s Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation (Orbis Books, 2012)
  • Pugliese, Marc A. and Alexander Y. Hwang, eds., Teaching Interreligious Encounters (Oxford, 2017).
  • Schmidt-Leukel, Perry. God Beyond Boundaries: A Christian and Pluralist Theology of Religions (Waxman, 2017).
  • Schmidt-Leukel, Perry. Religious Pluralism and Interreligious Theology: The Gifford Lectures - An Extended Edition (Orbis Books, 2017).
  • Syeed, Najeeba and Heidi Hadsell, eds., Critical Perspectives on Interreligious Education: Experiments in Empathy for our Time (Brill, 2020).
  • Swidler, Leonard, Dialogue for Interreligious Understanding: Strategies for the Transformation of Culture-Shaping Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)


Ethics

  • Bender, Courtney and Pamela E. Klassen, eds. After Pluralism: Reimagining Religious Engagement (Columbia University Press, 2010. 291.172)
  • Dalai Lama, Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World’s Religions can Come Together (Three Rivers Press, 2010)
  • Eck, Diana L. Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras (Beacon Press, 1993)
  • Gladwell, Malcolm. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (Little, Brown & Co., 2019)
  • Gopin, Mark. To Make the Earth Whole: The Art of Civic Diplomacy in an Age of Religious Militancy (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009)
  • Gutmann, Amy "Civic Education and Social Diversity” (oublished in the Journal of Ethics)
  • Haidt, Jonathan. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Vintage Books, 2013)
  • Inazu, John D. Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
  • Jones, Robert P. White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity (Simon Schuster, 2020)
  • McGraw, Barbara. Rediscovering America’s Sacred Ground: Public Religion and Pursuit of the Good in a Pluralistic America (State University of New York Press, 1999)
  • Niebuhr, Gustav. Beyond Tolerance: Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America (Viking Penguin, 2008)
  • Nussbaum, Martha. The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013)
  • Prothero, Stephen. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – And Doesn’t (HarperOne, 2007)
  • Rauf, Feisel Abdul. What’s Right with Islam Is What’s Right with America: A New Vision for Muslims and the West (HarperOne, 2004)
  • Sacks, Jonathan. The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations (Bloomsbury, 2003)
  • Stedman, Chris, Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious (Beacon Press, 2013)


Political Science

  • Brown, Wendy. Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (Princeton University Press, 2006)
  • Campbell, David. Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics (Cambridge University Press 2020)
  • Carter, Stephen. The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion (Basic Books, 1993)
  • Chaplin, Jonathan. Faith in Democracy: Framing a Politics of Deep Diversity (SCM Press, 2021)
  • Cohen, Charles & Ronald Numbers, Gods in America: Religious Pluralism in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2013)
  • Dworkin, Ronald, Religion Without God (Harvard University Press, 2013)
  • Eberle, Christopher J. Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
  • Eisgruber, Christopher L. Religious Freedom and the Constitution (Harvard University Press, 2010)
  • Fraser, James. Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America (John Hopkins University Press, 2016)
  • Gopin, Mark. To Make the Earth Whole: The Art of Civic Diplomacy in an Age of Religious Militancy (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009)
  • Grimm, Brian J and Roger Finke. The Price of Freedom Denied (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
  • Hamburger, Phillip. Separation of Church and State (Harvard University Press, 2002)
  • Hunter, James Davison and David Franz, “Religious Pluralism and Civil Society” in Stephen Prothero, ed.  A Nation of Religions: The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America (University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
  • Huntington, Samuel. Who Are We? Challenges to American Cultural Identity (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
  • Jacoby, Susan. Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (Holt, 2004)
  • Kozinski, Thaddeus J. The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism: And Why Philosophers Can't Solve It (Lexington Books, 2010)
  • Lewis, Earl and Nancy Cantor, Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society (Princeton University Press, 2016)
  • Little, David and Richard C. Holbrooke, Peacemakers in Action: Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
  • Neuhaus, Richard John. The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1984)
  • Porterfield, Amanda. Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
  • Porterfield, Amanda and John Corrigan, Religion in American History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
  • Prothero, Stephen. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – And Doesn’t (HarperOne, 2007)
  • Putnam, Robert and David Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (Simon & Schuster, 2010)
  • Putnam, Robert and Lewis M. Feldstein, and Don Cohen. Better Together: Restoring the American Community (Simon & Schuster, 2009)
  • Sacks, Jonathan. The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations (Continuum, 2002)
  • Meyerson, Michael I. Endowed by our Creator (Yale University Press, 2012)
  • Ragosta, John A. Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Legacy, America’s Creed (University of Virginia Press, 2013)
  • Schwartzmann, Micah. “Religion, Equality, and Public Reason” (Boston Law Review)
  • Sehat, David. The Myth of American Religious Freedom (Oxford University Press 2015)
  • Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers. The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (Princeton University Press, 2007)


Religion in Public Life

  • Audi, Robert. Religious Commitment and Secular Reason (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
  • Audi, Robert and Nicholas Wolterstorff. Religion in the Public Square: The Place of Religious Convictions in Political Debate (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996)
  • Banchoff, Thomas. Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2007)
  • Carter, Stephen. The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion (Anchor Books, 1994) Carter, Stephen. God's Name in Vain
  • Carter, Stephen. God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics (Basic Books, 2001)
  • Davis, Jim, et al, The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back? (Zondervan, 2023)
  • Goodman, Lenn E. Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
  • Greenawalt, Kent. Private Consciences and Public Reasons (Oxford University Press, 1995)
  • Gutmann, Amy and Dennis F. Thompson. Democracy and Disagreement (People’s Publishing House, 2008)
  • Guinn, David E. Faith on Trial: Communities of Faith, the First Amendment, and the Theory of Deep Diversity (Lexington Books, 2006)
  • Johnson, Noel D. and Mark Koyama, Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
  • Manseau, Peter. One Nation Under Gods: A New American History (Little, Brown, and Company, 2015)
  • Patel, Eboo, We Need to Build: Field Notes for a Diverse Democracy (Beacon Press, 2022)
  • Ramadan, Tariq, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2005)
  • Seidel, Andrew. The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American (Union Square & Co, 2019)
  • Walzer, Michael. "Drawing the Line: Religion and Politics" (1998)
  • Weithman, Paul. Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
  • Stout, Jeffrey. “Religious Traditions in Political Argument” in Democracy and Tradition (Princeton University Press, 2004)
  • Ryan Burge, The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going (Fortress Press, 2023)


Religious Studies

  • Diamond, Miriam Rosalyn. Fostering Religious Literacy Across Campus (Stillwater: New Forums Press, 2011)
  • Goodman, Kathleen, Mary Ellen Giess, and Eboo Patel, Educating About Religious Diversity and Interfaith Engagement (Sylus Publishers, 2019)
  • Haynes, Charles and Oliver Thomas, “Finding Common Ground: A Guide to Religious Liberty in Public Schools” (First Amendment Center, 2007)
  • IFYC Committee Report “Public Higher Education and the Pursuit of Civic Religious Pluralism: A Report on Promising Practices”
  • Jacobsen, Douglas and Rhonda Hustedt. No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)
  • Kazanjian, Victor H and Peter L. Laurence, Education as Transformation: Pluralism, Spirituality, and a New Vision for Higher Education in America (Peter Lang, 2000)
  • Marsden, George. The Soul of the American University: From Protestant to Post secular (Oxford University Press, 1996)
  • Meister, Chad ed., The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2011)
  • Nash, Robert. Religious Pluralism in the Academy: Opening the Dialogue (Peter Lang Publishers, 2001)
  • Nord, Warren. Religion and American Education: Rethinking a National Dilemma (University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
  • Patton, Laurie. Who Owns Religion: Scholars and Their Publics (The University of Chicago Press, 2019)
  • Prothero,Stephen. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – And Doesn’t (Harper One, 2007)
  • Schmalzbauer, John and Kathleen Mahoney, The Resilience of Religion in American Higher Education (Baylor University Press, 2018)
  • Seligman, Adam B. Religious Education and the Challenge of Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2014)
  • Smith, Christian. Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race.
  • Smith, Christian. Souls in Transitions: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults.
  • Syeed, Najeeba and Heidi Hadsell, eds., Critical Perspectives on Interreligious Education (Brill, 2020)


Theology and Philosophy

  • D’Costa, Gavin, ed. Christian Uniqueness Reconsidered: Myth of Pluralistic Theology of Religions (Orbis Books, 1990)
  • Friday, John & Terrence Merrigan eds., The Past, Present, and Future of Theologies of Interreligious Dialogue (Oxford University Press, 2017)
  • Griffin, David, Religious Pluralism: Generic, Identist, and Deep (Westminster John Knox Press, 2005)
  • Griffiths, Paul, Problems of Religious Diversity (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001)
  • Hick, John, An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent (Yale University Press, 1989(
  • Kim, Joseph, Reformed Epistemology and the Problem of Religious Diversity: Proper Function, Epistemic Disagreement, and Christian Exclusivism (Wipf & Stock, 2011)
  • Kozinski, Thaddeus, The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism: And Why Philosophers Can’t Solve It (Lexington Books, 2012)
  • McKim, Robert, Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2015)
  • McKim, Robert, On Religious Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2012)
  • Meeker, Kevin & Philip Quinn eds., The Philosophical Challenge of Religious Diversity (Oxford University Press, 1999)
  • Nah, David, Religious Pluralism and Christian Theology: A Critical Evaluation of John Hick (Cambridge University Press,2013)
  • Plantinga, Alvin, “Pluralism: A Defense of Religious Exclusivism” in The Rationality of Belief and the Plurality of Faith (Cornell University Press, 1995)
  • Prothero, Stephen. God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World (HarperOne, 2011)
  • Race, Alan. Thinking About Religious Pluralism: Shaping Theology of Religions for Our Times (Fortress Press, 2015)
  • Race, Alan. Christianity and Religious Pluralism: Patterns in the Christian Theology of Religions, London: SCM Press (enlarged 2nd edition, 1993).
  • Rose, Kenneth, Pluralism: The Future of Religion (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013)
  • Smith, Suzanne, Religious Pluralism and the Question of Love (Columbia 2016)
  • Stewart, Robert, ed., Can Only One Religion Be True? (Fortress Press 2013)
  • Sugirtharahah, Sharada, ed., Religious Pluralism and the Modern World: An Ongoing Engagement with John Hick (Palgrave 2012)
  • Thatamanil, John. Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity (Fordham University Press, 2020)
  • Trigg, Roger, Religious Diversity: Philosophical and Political Dimensions (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
  • Wainwright, William, "Competing Religious Claims" in The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion (2004)


United States History

  • Barkey, Karen. “Religious Diversity in America: A Historical Narrative.” (UC Berkley Othering and Belonging Institute, 2018)
  • Beneke, Chris. Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2006)
  • Berger, Peter. The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation (Doubleday 1980)
  • Berger, Peter, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (Anchor 1980)
  • Bremer, Thomas. Formed from this Soil: An Introduction to the Diverse History of Religion in America (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
  • Cohen, Charles and Ronald Numbers, Gods in America: Religious Pluralism in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2013)
  • Davis, Kenneth, "America's True History of Religious Tolerance.” (Smithsonian Magazine, 2007)
  • D'Costa, Gavin, “Theology amid Religious Diversity,” Chad Meister (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity (Oxford Handbooks 2010)
  • Dreisbach, Daniel L. and Mark David Hall, eds., Faith and the Founders of the American Republic (Oxford University Press, 2014)
  • Eck, Diana. A New Religious America: How a ‘Christian Country’ has Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation (Harper San Francisco, 2002)
  • “Flushing Remonstrance” (1657)
  • Fraser, James. Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America (John Hopkins University Press, 2016)
  • Goldschmidt, Henry, Race and Religion Among the Chosen People of Crown Heights (Rutgers University Press, 2006)
  • Goldschmidt, Henry, Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas (Oxford University Press, 2004)
  • Gorski, Phillip. American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present (Princeton University Press 2017)
  • Gorski, Phillip. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy (Oxford University Press 2022)
  • Hutchinson,William. Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal (Yale University Press, 2003)
  • Kaplan, Benjamin. Early Modern Toleration: New Approaches (Routledge, 2023)
  • Leland, John. "The Virginia Chronicle: With Judicious and Critical Remarks.”
  • Madison, James. “Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments” (1785).
  • Manseau, Peter. One Nation Under Gods: A New American History (Back Bay Books, 2016)
  • Marsden, George. Religion in American Culture: A Brief History (Eerdman’s Publishing, 2018)
  • Marty, Martin. “Historical Reflections on Religious Diversity” in The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2011), 9-20.
  • Marty, Martin. The One and the Many: America’s Struggle for the Common Good (Harvard University Press, 1998)
  • McCarthy,Kate. Interfaith Encounters in America (Rutgers University Press, 2007)
  • McGraw,Barbara A. Rediscovering America’s Sacred Ground: Public Religion and Pursuit of the Good in a Pluralistic America (State University of New York Press, 1999)
  • McGraw, Barbara and Jo Renee Formicola, Taking Pluralism Seriously: Spiritual Politics on America’s Sacred Ground (Baylor University Press, 2005)
  • Nussbaum, Martha, The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013)
  • Patel, Eboo. Out of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and America’s Promise (Princeton University Press, 2019)
  • Patel, Eboo. Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America (Beacon Press, 2013)
  • Prothero, Stephen ed, A Nation of Religions: The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America (University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
  • Rauf, Feisal Abdul. What’s Right With Islam is What’s Right with America (HarperCollins, 2004).
  • Richardson,Allen. Strangers in this Land: Pluralism and the Response to Religious Diversity in the United States (Pilgrim Press, 1988)
  • Williams, Roger, The Bloudy Tenet of Persecution (1644)
  • Wuthnow, Robert. America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity (Princeton University Press, 2008)
  • Munoz, Philip, God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, Jefferson (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
  • Mark David Hall, Did America Have a Christian Founding? Separating Myth from Historical Truth (Thomas Nelson, 2020)