This presentation proposes a reframing of interreligious encounter beyond the dominant focus on agreement and disagreement, suggesting that such binaries no longer adequately capture the dynamics, aspirations, and challenges of interreligious engagement in contemporary European contexts. While theological difference remains important, the presentation will explore the more pressing questions for today concerning how religious and non-religious actors imagine one another—as threats or partners, as fixed identities or evolving communities, as problems to be managed or resources for the common good. Drawing on developments in interfaith dialogue over recent decades, the presentation will reflect on such aspects as: how these evolving forms negotiate the presence of "committed" religious perspectives, the uneven participation of younger generations, and the ongoing tension between academic expertise and lived, non-academic religious knowledge. This talk will focus on the context of Europe (broadly) in which religion has frequently been framed through securitized lenses, associated primarily with fundamentalism or radicalization and suggest that such framings constrain the imaginative possibilities of interreligious cooperation. Against this backdrop, Interreligious Studies is presented as a field capable of unsettling reductive narratives, fostering reflexivity, and developing new conceptual tools for understanding encounter as relational, contextual, and future-oriented.