Interfaith dialogue can break down obstacles and create understanding. One of many first Islamic-Christian dialogues within the nation passed off right here in Milwaukee within the Eighties.

A collaboration between a Muslim UW-Milwaukee professor, Dr. Abbas Hamdani, and two Franciscan Sisters, Jessine Reiss and Lucille Walsh, fostered areas for interfaith dialogue. It was executed in an effort to assist folks of various non secular backgrounds perceive one another higher.

That dialogue is the topic of a e-book Interfaith Engagement in Milwaukee: A Temporary Historical past of Christian Muslim Dialogue, co-edited by Marquette College professor Irfan Omar and his former pupil, Kaitlyn Daly.

Omar’s curiosity in interfaith engagement led him to create programs about it at Marquette. As a nursing and theology pupil, Daly had comparable pursuits and took Omar’s class. The findings of the ultimate challenge of this course turned the origins of their e-book, which targeted on researching a number of the first Islamic-Christian dialogues ever recorded in america. They interviewed individuals who took half in these preliminary interfaith conversations.

“[The participants were] folks from all walks of life after which past that, they had been thinking about not simply non secular dialog, however dialog … ‘What will we expertise? What are the issues we face collectively? What can we do about them?’ And so this is a non secular resolution to human drawback,” Omar says.

The expertise allowed devoted members of religion communities to study extra about different doctrines and listen to totally different views. Daly advocates in search of out comparable alternatives to hear and study extra as effectively.

She says, “So, I simply encourage listeners to hunt these alternatives, do some Google looking, look on social media engines, and simply to seek out the correct match for you — when you’re thinking about exploring what this work is.”

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