DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY-MANILA
College of Liberal Arts
Emergent Program on Worldviews and Beliefs
CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION
“Theories and Practices of Interfaith Dialogue in the Philippines ”
April 24-26, 2008
The Goals of this Conference:
1. to bring together local/national practitioners and theoreticians dealing with Interfaith Dialogue;
2. to identify, analyze, and indicate possible links/convergences of emerging field practices of and theoretical/academic
approaches to Interfaith/Religious Dialogue;
3. to encourage conversational exchanges among practitioners in order to document the diversity of practices both in the
field and academic settings;
4. to fortify relations among practitioners across regional, linguistic and religious boundaries.
2008 Conference Theme :
The general theme for the conference will be “Theories and Practices of Interfaith Dialogue in the Philippines .”
The papers may address any of the following general topics:
1. Dialogue: Its Ends and Means
2. World and Local Traditions: Possibilities for Mutual-Enrichment;
3. Authority: Dealing with Continuity and Change;
4. Theory and Practice of Dialogue: Their Ideal Relationships;
5. Text and Context: Harmony and/or Dialectics;
6. The Power/Systems Context: Possibility of Dialogue/Praxis in Strategized/Globalized Worlds;
7. The Utopic Imagination: Providing Hopes for Future Conversations;
8. Diversity, Harmony, and Solidarity; and
9. The Human Person: Sine qua non of Dialogue.
