The International Network for Interreligious Research and Education (INIRE) is a worldwide network of scholars, public intellectuals, and religious leaders from diverse academic, religious, and social backgrounds, all committed to advancing interreligious research, dialogue, and education. Established at Duke University in 2017 as a collaboration of faculty in eight universities from diverse disciplines and fields across three continents.
Since INIRE founding, the Network has held an annual summer conference and summer school, and has launched several research initiatives and working groups. Bar Ilan University, COREIS (Comunità Religiosa Islamica Italiana), Duke University, FASCIRE (Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose), Leipzig University, The Catholic Academy in Berlin (Katholische Akademie in Berlin), and Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education have been the leading partners in recent years.
INIRE continues to rely on its earlier partners, among them, University of Groningen, University of Southampton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University.
Our goals:
- Studying from an interdisciplinary and inter-religious perspective, various, past and present religious issues.
- Promoting inter-religious knowledge among undergraduate and graduate students
- Implementing our research in contemporary social issues
- Encouraging inter-religious dialogue among scholars, students and the public.
We have founded a worldwide network of scholars from diverse disciplines and interest-fields, built upon a cooperation of academic institutions. The framework of a network will facilitate, on the one hand, intellectual cooperation in organizing conferences, research groups, grant applications, international programs, summer-schools and public activities, but on the other hand, safeguarding the autonomy of the participating institutions.
