Research Seminar with Prof Marianne Moyaert: Interfaith Education in Higher Education
Professor Dr Marianne Moyaert
Seminar with Professor Dr Marianne Moyaert (Vrije University Amsterdam)
Title: “Interfaith Education in Higher Education”
When: Thursday, November 26th at 3 PM
Where: Via Zoom (see below on RSVP)
The Lecture will be the final one of this Autumn’s Theology, Religious Studies, and Philosophy Seminar series in the School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music.
Professor Moyaert’s lecture will be delivered by Zoom. To RSVP and receive the link, please email: Peter.Admirand@dcu.ie or Joseph.Rivera@dcu.ie.
Biography
Professor Marianne Moyaert is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Religion and Theology, Beliefs and Practices at Vrije University Amsterdam. For the past few years, her research has focused on the ritual dimension of interreligious encounters and especially the possibilities and limits of (Christian-Jewish) ritual border crossing. She has explored why some practices of inter-rituality are well received while others are perceived as inappropriate and problematic. She has found that collective memories of historical conflicts between Christians and Jews still impact their inter-ritual relations. She is currently working on a research application on mixed Christian-Jewish and Christian Muslim couples aimed at exploring if, to what extent, and when these couples are affected by Christian normality and privilege, antisemitism/Islamophobia; and modern prejudices about ‘good and bad’ religion and what creative strategies they develop when dealing with diverging practices.
Her most recent books include: Interreligious Relations and the Negotiation of Ritual Boundaries: Explorations in Interrituality (2019) and Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue: Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations(2016) and over fifty articles and chapters in a wide-range of publications, including in the forthcoming book, Atonement and Comparative Theology: The Cross in Dialogue with Other Religions (2021).