Interfaith Engagement Beyond the Divide

Associate Professor Johannes M. Luetz (BA/USA, MBA/Germany, Ph.D./Australia) is a senior social scientist based in Brisbane, Australia. He is the Director of Research Development and research ethics chair at Alphacrucis University College and holds adjunct appointments at the University of New South Wales and the University of the Sunshine Coast. He has lived and worked across countries and continents and conducts interdisciplinary humanitarian research at the science-faith, interfaith, and science-policy interface. As a global citizen raised between Africa, Europe, and Australia, he has published and edited widely in the areas of spirituality, sustainable development, and forced human migration, among others. He serves as editor on major international handbooks and interdisciplinary academic journals.Professor Denise A. Austin (PhD/MA/BA Hons I) is Vice President (Academic) at Leaders Institute. She was formerly Deputy Vice President Research and Standards at Alphacrucis University College, Director of the Australasian Pentecostal Studies Centre, and Chair of the Theological Commission of Asia Pacific Theological Association. Denise received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Queensland, Australia, and has published widely in Pentecostal, Asian, and oral history, as well as higher education quality assurance. In 2021, she was awarded the Alphacrucis College Doctoral Supervision Excellence Award. Denise and her family have also served as missionaries in Hong Kong. Denise is listed on the Register of Experts for the Australian government’s Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency.Dr. Adis Duderija is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Islam and Society, and former Senior Fellow of Centre for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue, Griffith University, at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of contemporary Islamic Studies, especially in relation to his work on gender and Islam, interfaith theory, the theory of progressive Islam and the Islamic interpretive tradition generally. In addition to over fifty journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries, Adis is also the author and editor of over half a dozen books at this time. He serves on the editorial board of several academic journals, and his scholarly works have been translated into Arabic, Indonesian, Urdu/Hindi and Bosnian.

• Interfaith Engagement: The State of the Art.- Theology of Religions: An Inventory.- Ultimate Reality in Three Distinctive Traditions.- Complete, Idealized Human: An Experiment in Comparative Theology on the Nature of Jesus.- The ‘Son of God’ in the Gospel of John and its Relevance for Muslim-Christian Dialogue.- How can Human Beings Respond to Divine Warnings and Promises? Deciphering the Puzzle of Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom in Christianity and Islam.- Understanding Multicultural Dimensions in the History of Progressive Science in the Classical Period of Islam (610–1258 CE).- Beyond the Face: A Pentecostal’s Re-evaluation of Orthodox Iconography.- Australians’ Attitudes to Various Religions and Interfaith Activities.- Interfaith and Intra-faith Engagement of the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Diaspora in Australia.- Spiritual Formation in Muslim and Pentecostal Higher Education: A Comparative Case Study Between Australia and Indonesia (Part One).- Character Formation in Muslim and Christian Higher Education: A Comparative Case Study Between Australia and Indonesia (Part Two).- Nonviolent Interfaith Solidarity Jihad: Two Autobiographical Accounts.- Interfaith Community Gardening: Growing Food Justice.- Overcoming Religious Distance: Epiphanies in Cross-Cultural Settings.- “All Humans are Strangers—Almost Everywhere”: Autoethnographic Reflections on Interfaith Consciousness.