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Prof. Douglas Pratt

Professor of religious studies at Waikato University, New Zealand

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Douglas Pratt is Professor of religious studies at Waikato University, New Zealand and holds appointments as Adjunct Professor (Theology & Interreligious Studies) at the University of Bern, Switzerland; and Adjunct Associate Professor(Research) in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, Australia. A former President of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion (AASR) and the New Zealand Association for the Study of Religions (NZASR), Professor Pratt is the New Zealand Associate of the Australian-based UNESCO Chair in Intercultural and Interreligious Relations – Asia Pacific. He is also an Associate of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics (CSRP) at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Professor Pratt is Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and was a Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown. His most recent book is Being Open, Being Faithful: The Journey of Interreligious Dialogue.

 

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What does Christian identity mean in the face of religious pluralism? In some ways, the frontier of global Christianity lies not in repairing its past divisions so much as bravely facing its future in a world of many other faiths and conflicting convictions.
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First published in 2005, this book addresses the challenges arising from Christian-Muslim encounter and attempts to enable outsiders to understand the religion of Islam. The author offers distinctive perspectives that compliment much other literature in the study of Islam and in particular Christian-Muslim relations and the relation of Islam and the west.
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Between them, Islam and Christianity represent over half the earth's population. Their history of interaction, positive and negative, impacts widely still today. Contentious issues remain real enough, yet the story and ongoing reality of contemporary Christian-Muslim engagement is both exciting and encouraging.
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