Interreligious and Intrareligious Dialogue

Between and among persons who identify themselves as members of a collective religious tradition, two important dialogues exist. Within the same tradition, there are waves of change through lineage and interpretation that oscillate around a core experience of beliefs, belongings, and behavior. These dialogues can keep the internal understandings fresh and shared among religious leaders and followers.  That internal dialogue is both challenged and enhanced by then striving to create friendships and promote understandings across difficult differences without causing fear and strife.   

The DI principles provide guidelines for how to think and to behave in order to grow and change in the inter- and intra-religious dialogues. You can read the Dialogue Institute’s Ten Principles of Dialogue HERE and also find links to translations in multiple languages.

These principles live within the context and content of a particular community. When approaching religious communities or civic groupings, dialogue practitioners will establish with the facilitators first, some common understandings about the context and content for each participating group as a foundation for seeing how the principles can work to help create the community trust and accompanying bonds. To learn more, you can read Len Swidler’s Twelve-Step Program to Deep-Dialogue and Critical Thinking.

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