Journal of Interreligious Studies Publishes Issue on 'Teaching Palestine/Israel'

In this new issue, the Journal of Interreligious Studies (JIRS) serves as a space for a critical, constructive, and generative conversation about how to teach and organize events on university campuses regarding Palestine/Israel. The publication elevates the level of dialogue surrounding the teaching of this topic.

Editor-in-Chief Axel M. Oaks Takacs said the articles and reflections in the issue are stimulating. 

“They all arise from concrete teaching and event-organizing experiences. Furthermore, they register real tensions (e.g., the role of affect in teaching and the value, or lack thereof, in pursuing narrative approaches to the topic)," he said. "The pieces discuss imaginative genres in teaching (music and graphic narratives), point out pervasive problems in current practice (e.g., single events rather than series, the myth of balance), and represent the institutional diversity of higher education. I am certain this issue will serve as a crucial resource for educators.”

JIRS is an online, peer-reviewed, collaboratively produced publication of Hebrew College, Boston University School of Theology, and Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. Dr. Lucinda Mosher, HIU’s professor of interreligious studies, is senior editor of the Journal of Interreligious Studies (JIRS).