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Decolonizing Interreligious Studies and Dialogue

What have been historically colonial ways of doing interreligious studies and dialogue? Why is it important to recognize such frameworks? How do we shift both interreligious studies and dialogue toward decolonial approaches? Join us for a discussion with two leading scholars, who work on the theory and practice of decoloniality, to respond to the aforementioned questions and discuss ways to move forward.

Oludamini Ogunnaike, PhD
Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy, University of Virginia

Oludamini Ogunnaike, PhD is Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy at the University of Virginia. His research examines the philosophical and artistic dimensions of postcolonial, colonial, and pre-colonial Islamic and indigenous religious traditions of West and North Africa, especially Sufism and Ifa. He also works on the Philosophy of Religion, African Philosophy, Anthropology, Decoloniality, Race, and the modern state in Africa. Ogunnaike is the author of Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions (2020), winner of the Outstanding First Book Prize of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), and Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: West African Madīḥ Poetry and its Precedents (2020).

K. Christine Pae, PhD
Professor of Religion/Ethics and Women’s and Gender Studies, Denison University

K. Christine Pae, PhD is Professor of Religion/Ethics and Women’s and Gender Studies and Chair of the Religion Department at Denison University in Ohio. Trained as a social ethicist, Pae teaches and researches ethics of peace and war, transnational feminist ethics and theologies, spiritual activism, and U.S. military prostitution industries in Asia. Her emerging research is the global alliance of Christian Zionism. She is the author of A Transpacific Imagination of Theology, Ethics, and Spiritual Activism: Doing Feminist Ethics Transnationally (2023) and the co-editor of Embodying Antiracist Christianity: Asian/American Theological Resources for Just Racial Relations (2023) and Searching for the Future in the Past: Reclaiming Feminist Theological Visions (2024).

Syed Atif Rizwan, PhD
Host
Assistant Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies, Director of the Catholic-Muslim Studies Program
Chair, Department of Intercultural Studies and Ministry at CTU

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