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Religion in the 21st Century

I have co-authored a number of popular books on interfaith dialogue, together with a Jewish and a Muslim colleague, in which we have explored a number of themes.

The interfaith movement has often located points in common between the three Abrahamic faiths. (We see no objection to the term "Abrahamic", to which a handful of scholars seems to take exception. All three faiths claim a common ancestry in the patriarch Abraham.) As well as points of agreement, however, we have explored our differences, in what we describe as a "frank but friendly" way.

"Abraham" formed the theme of a series of Lent lectures at Lichfield Cathedral in 2019. For the final session, George Chryssides, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, and Usama Hasan came together to participate in an interfaith conversation about the patriarch.

(Left to right: Canon Andrew Stead, Usama Hasan, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, George Chryssides, Bishop Micahel Ipgrave.)

The titles are:

People of the Book:
          An Interfaith Dialogue about How Jews, Christians and Muslims
          Understand Their Sacred Scriptures
          with Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Usama Hasan
          (Jessica King, 2019).

Terror and Religion: An Interfaith Dialogue
           with Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Dawoud El-Alami
           (Impress, 2016)

Why Can’t They Get Along?
          A conversation between a Muslim, a Jew and a Christian
          with Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Dawoud El-Alami
          (Lion Hudson, 2014)

Love, Sex and Marriage:
          Insights from Judaism, Christianity and Islam
          with Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Dawoud El-Alami
          (SCM., 2013)