Berkley Center

How do religions interact with one another in the context of religious pluralism? What are the prospects and pitfalls of interreligious and interfaith dialogue in the contemporary world? Over the course of the 2008-2009 academic year, the Berkley Center's program on the Catholic Church and interreligious dialogue sponsored a series of presentations by Georgetown faculty addressing these questions. An ongoing theme was whether and how interreligious dialogue sheds new light on the category of religion, advances our understanding of it, makes it more complicated, or diminishes the claims of particular religions.