Inter-religious Relations: Prejudices and Conflicts—Dialogue and Integration

Dear Colleagues,

As globalization progresses, religious pluralization proceeds and with it, and awareness of other religious traditions is increasingly penetrating into everyday life. Moreover, with such a heightened awareness of other religions, actors on the micro-, meso-, and macro-level have to position themselves towards this religious plurality, which we want to capture with the term ‘inter-religious relations’. Such inter-religious relations take place at the level between individuals, and at the level of regions, countries, and institutions (especially religious communities). Examples are couples and families in which the members belong to different religions, as well as regions or countries in which the inhabitants belong to different religious communities or in which migration has changed the previous religious landscape. However, inter-religious relations can comprise very different qualities. These include, but are not limited to, prejudices and (resulting) conflicts as well as dialogue and integration of different religious perspectives and practices.

This Special Issue on “Inter-religious relations: Prejudices and Conflicts—Dialogue and Integration” in the peer-reviewed, open access journal Religions (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions) aims to examine the here-described phenomenon. The focus of this Special Issue is on qualitative and quantitative empirical studies from all disciplines of empirical religious research, especially from sociology of religion, psychology of religion, religious studies, and empirical theology. Additionally, theoretical papers or historical case studies on this topic are also invited. Research from all religious and cultural contexts are highly welcome.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Huber
Dr. Sarah Demmrich
Prof. Dr. Shanmukh V. Kamble
Guest Editors

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