Catherine Cornille and Idolatry: An Interreligious Conversation [Video]

At the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, a session was devoted to the question of idolatry. The session featured an interreligious panel of scholars discussing Alon Goshen-Gottstein (ed.) Idolatry: A Contemporary Interreligious Conversation (Academic Studies Press, Boston, 2023). Thinkers of different religions reflected on the challenge of idolatry in religion today, based on similar reflections offered by about 20 thinkers, featured in this book. Participants in the panel were Werner Jeanrond (Lund University), Jawad Qureshi (Zaytuna Institute), Jeffrey Long (Elizabethtown College), Nick Adams (University of Birmingham), Catherine Cornille (Boston College), Kurt Anders Richardson (Institute for Abrahamic Relations) and Alon Goshen-Gottstein (Elijah Interfaith Institute). This is the second video, featuring Werner Jeanrond, offering a response.

Catherine Cornille is a professor of comparative theology and specializes in theology of religions and interreligious dialogue. She presently holds the Newton College Alumnae Chair of Western Culture in the department of theology at Boston College.

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