Panel: RELIGION IN DIALOGUE. TRANSFORMATIONS, CHALLENGES, AND CHANCES



871.6 - ABRAHAMIC TRILATERAL INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE: STRUGGLING BETWEEN NEOCOLONIALISM AND DECOLONIALISM

AUTHORS:
Brodeur P. (Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Montreal ~ Montreal ~ Canada)
Text:
Dialogue is often described in opposition to debate. Yet, since 7-8 October 2023, serious internal debates within all four dialogues within the main Abrahamic trilateral family of dialogues (the trilateral Abrahamic dialogue, and the three bilateral : Jewish-Christian, Christian-Muslim, and Jewish-Muslim dialogues) have erupted, greatly pressuring prior dialogical relationships crafted often over years and decades of careful and already sensitive dialogues. The results over the last two and a half years have demonstrated both the fragility and resilience of various actors (both personally and organizationally/institutionally) involved in one or more of these four dialogues. This presentation seeks to present a typological overview of the complex responses to have emerged recently, based on an interdisciplinary theoretical approach as well as on a complementary double methodological approach using, first, a critical discourse analysis of texts published within the last two years or so on Abrahamic dynamics and, second, an ethnographical approach based on personal participant-observations of five different types of dialogical spaces: three in my own town of Montreal (Canada) and two in international academic conferences, in Vienna (Austria) and Rabat (Morocco). - ABRAHAMIC DYNAMICS -