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Ep 98: Inter-religious Diplomacy and Jain Plurality w/ Dr. Melanie Barbato

Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:42:38
Publish Date: 2019-03-04 06:00:00
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Dr. Barbato researches the mechanisms and strategies of interreligious communication with a focus on high-level actors and cultural diplomacy, such as the Pope. She is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Münster in Germany and is in partnership with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies in the UK. She is currently developing a project on Hindu-Christian dialogue. She’s also a scholar of Jainism and is the author of Jain Approaches to Plurality: Identity as Dialogue, published by Brill in 2017.

We discuss current events, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Jainism, and her book.

Follow her on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/melanie_barbato

Buy her book here.

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