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interreligious

interreligious

2 6.5
About people or activities from different religions
  • adjective
  • /ˌɪntərrɪˈlɪdʒəs/
translation icon : interreligioso
  • The conference focused on interreligious dialogue to promote understanding between various faiths.
  • interreligious dialogue
  • interreligious understanding
  • interreligious cooperation

Examples

  • For Boeve, Christians entering into interreligious dialogue and exchange need to be saved from two traps.

    Academic text (2006)
  • For many years, I had worked side-by-side with interreligious colleagues to advance a shared social and political agenda.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The problem of living together and interreligious dialogue has appeared in these meetings.

    Academic text (2015)
  • But on a practical level, Hart is trying to establish a deep, interreligious moral pull here.

    Academic text (2008)
  • In other words, there is a social foundation for religious tolerance and interreligious dialogue in Kamina.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Most students and the population at large agree that interreligious dialogue and religious tolerance are necessary for peaceful coexistence.

    Academic text (2015)
  • One of my most important teachers was Leonard Swidler, Professor of Catholic Thought and Interreligious Dialogue at Temple University.

    Academic text (2015)
  • As a result of Khomeini's opposition to the West, the interreligious dialogue suffered a major setback.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Even religious leaders recognize that interreligious cooperation is burdened by political insecurity and ethnic interests.

    Academic text (2015)
  • In 1994, the Hashemite Prince Hasan Ibn Talal founded The Royal Institute for Interreligious Studies in Amman.

    Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

interfaith
vsinterreligious
24 4.5

About events or groups that include people from different religions

covers broader relations and activities between different religions
ecumenical
vsinterreligious
  • Formal
10 8.6

Promoting unity between different Christian churches or religions

is neutral about unity, focusing on any relations or dialogue between religions
interdenominational
vsinterreligious
1 7.9

Shared by people from different churches or religious groups

includes relations between separate religions, not only within one faith
multireligious
vsinterreligious
1 4.6

Including people or practices from more than one religion

emphasizes active contact and dialogue among different religions
interconfessional
vsinterreligious
8.5

Involving people from different religions

is wider, covering relations between religions, not only denominations

Surface Forms

interreligious positive

Morphology

interreligious = religious (transparent) = inter + religion + ous

Adding the productive prefix 'inter-' to the adjective 'religious' yields the straightforward meaning 'between or among religions'.

Etymology

Interreligious joins the prefix inter- meaning 'between', which you also see in international, with religious from religion. So, interreligious describes things that happen 'between' different religions, like meetings, talks, or shared events.