EuARe2024 1 Interfaith Dialogue as a Theological, Ethical and Spiritual Paradigm Shift Lunedi 20 Maggio 2024 dalle 08:30 alle 13:15 FONDAZIONE SICILIA - SALA DEI 99 Proponent: Peter Admirand Chair: Peter Admirand Speaker: Ana Magdalena Petraru, Ibrahim Aslandur, Wael Abu Uksa, William French, Peter Admirand, Halil Avci, Nataliia Pavlyk, Aden Cotterill, Rocio Cortes Rodriguez, Pavol Bargar, Theresa Beilschmidt, Miriam Feldmann-Kaye This panel will examine the many ways that interfaith dialogue has and can fundamentally change, purify, and challenge religious and humanist positions. Panel papers can include the following: 1. Studies and analyses of seminal (or overlooked) interfaith religious texts, thinkers or events that instituted or nudged wholesale or major changes in a religion’s or philosophical outlook, vision, or practice. For Catholics, Nostra Aetate would be the most obvious example—but the field is broad here to include everything from A Common Word to Dabru Emet to the World Parliament of Religions to the many trailblazers or overlooked individuals and institutions working for such change. 2. The benefits of such institutional, ethical, theological, and spiritual paradigm shifts from encounters in interfaith relations – as well as various challenges and setbacks. Positive points include the role of healthy humility, interfaith learning, and growth, while negative possibilities include an erosion of identity and the uncovering of past and present moral failures towards other faiths and positions. 3. Case studies or examples of how interfaith dialogue contributed to changes, developments, or deeper incursions in areas of ethics, from the ecological to social justice, sexual ethics, and even space exploration. 4. The ways and possibilities that interfaith dialogue expands and refines one’s spiritual practice. Interfaith Dialogue and Ethics in a Romanian Orthodox Setting: The Case of the Theological English Classroom Petraru A.M. Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi Exploring Sacred Texts Across Religions: Theory and Practice for Interfaith Encounters Aslandur I. Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen