Current Dialogue, the World Council of Churches’ long-standing journal on interreligious relations, is now available online and as a print issue in a new format.
Recognizing the indispensability of interreligious dialogue amidst changing religious realities, the journal seeks to offer space for stimulating and sustained reflections on a wide range of interreligious issues.
Current Dialogue will now be produced annually with its own distinctive identity and editorial team by the journal publisher Wiley as a special issue of the WCC quarterly, The Ecumenical Review, which has been published by Wiley on behalf of the World Council of Churches since 2009.
Current Dialogue started publication in 1980–81, produced by the World Council of Churches’s then programme on Dialogue with People of Living Faiths and Ideologies.
Expressing the hope and wish that the journal will become “an accessible and effective tool for committed interreligious engagement,” Tveit writes: “May it truly serve to enhance further exploration as well as expansion of interest in interreligious engagement in fresh and fruitful ways, and may it address with integrity and insight some of the most pressing questions of our times.”
This issue of Current Dialogue focuses on the theme “In Honesty and Hope: Rethinking Interreligious Engagement for our Times” and opens with an article by interfaith scholar and former World Council of Churches deputy general secretary Wesley Ariarajah on the history of the World Council of Church’s involvement in interreligious dialogue. Other authors offer reflections on rethinking interreligious engagement from diverse perspectives, notes editor Rev. Dr Peniel Rajkumar in the opening editorial.
“The lens of honesty and hope helps ensure that the ethos of this volume remains simultaneously critical, celebratory, creative, and constructive,” he writes.
The journal addresses academics, interfaith practitioners, researchers, students, institutions, religious leaders of different faiths, and all those interested in the study of religions.
Subscribers to The Ecumenical Review will receive and have access to Current Dialogue as part of their regular subscriptions, extending the reach of Current Dialogue to nearly 6000 institutions around the world.
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Table of Contents of Current Dialogue – articles may be consulted free of charge until the end of January 2020.
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