Contemporary Christian-Muslim Dialogue

Douglas Pratt is Professor of Religious Studies in the School of Social Sciences, University of Waikato, New Zealand and Adjunct Professor (Theology and Interreligious Studies), in the Department of Old Catholic (Christkatholische) Theology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is an Associate of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics [CSRP] at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and the New Zealand Associate of the UNESCO Chair in Intercultural and Interreligious Relations - Asia Pacific. Professor Pratt is a Research Team Leader on the University of Birmingham based project Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History. His most recent book is Being Open, Being Faithful: The Journey of Interreligious Dialogue (WCC, 2014). Other book publications include The Church and Other Faiths: The World Council of Churches, the Vatican and Interreligious Dialogue, (Peter Lang, 2010) and The Challenge of Islam: Encounters in Interfaith Dialogue (Ashgate, 2005). He co-edited with David Cheetham and David Thomas (both University of Birmingham) Understanding Interreligious Relations (OUP, 2013).