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DR. LEONARD SWIDLER

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Founder and Director, Dialogue Institute

Co-Founder/Editor, Journal of Ecumenical Studies

Professor of Catholic Thought & Interreligious Dialogue, Temple University

Leonard is a Professor of Catholic Thought and Interreligious Dialogue in the Religion Department of Temple University, where he has taught since 1966. At Temple, and as a visiting professor at universities around the world – including Graz, Austria; Tübingen, Germany; Fudan University, Shanghai; and the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur – he has mentored a generation of U.S. and international scholars in the work of interreligious dialogue. He has a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the University of Tübingen and received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin; he also holds honorary doctorates from St. Norbert’s College and LaSalle University. Leonard has published/edited more than 200 articles and 75 books, including: Jewish‑Christian‑Muslim Dialogue (1978); Religious Liberty and Human Rights (1986); After the Absolute: The Dialogical Future of Religious Reflection (1990); A Bridge to Buddhist-Christian Dialogue (1990); Muslims in Dialogue: The Evolution of a Dialogue over a Generation (1992); Jesus Was a Feminist (2007).

Main Publications

  • 1.) Swidler, Leonard J. , Religious liberty and human rights in nations and in religions. : Religious liberty and human rights in nations and in religions. , Philadelphia: Ecumenical Press. , 1986
  • 2.) Swidler, Leonard J. , Toward a universal theology of religion. Maryknoll : Toward a universal theology of religion. Maryknoll , N.Y.: Orbis Books , 1987
  • 3.) Swidler, Leonard J. , Death or dialogue?: from the age of monologue to the age of dialogue : Death or dialogue?: from the age of monologue to the age of dialogue , London: SCM Press , 1990
  • 4.) Swidler, Leonard J. , Bursting the bonds?: a Jewish-Christian dialogue on Jesus and Paul. , : Bursting the bonds?: a Jewish-Christian dialogue on Jesus and Paul. , , N.Y.: Orbis Books , 1990
  • 5.) Swidler, Leonard J. , Scripture and ecumenism: Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish : Scripture and ecumenism: Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish , Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press , 1965
  • 6.) Swidler, Leonard J. and Paul Mojzes , Khalid Duran, and Reuven Firestone. Trialogue: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in dialogue : Khalid Duran, and Reuven Firestone. Trialogue: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in dialogue , New London : CT: Twenty-Third Publications , 2007
  • 7.) Swidler, Leonard J. , The study of religion in an age of global dialogue : The study of religion in an age of global dialogue , Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2000
  • 8.) Swidler, Leonard J. and Lester Dean , Breaking down the wall between Americans and East Germans-- Jews and Christians through dialogue : Breaking down the wall between Americans and East Germans-- Jews and Christians through dialogue , Lanham: University Press of America , 1983

Area of Actions:

Freedom of Religion or Belief Interreligious Dialogue

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