Salt 2011
Muslim-Christian Relations in the Lutheran and Anglican Communions on The Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
The SALT 2011 meeting will be held just preceding the American Academy of Religion (AAR) meeting, November 17-18, 2011 at the Westmont College Urban House in San Francisco, California
David Grafton (Lutheran) – Associate Professor, Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations and Director of Graduate Studies – “The Work of Christ in 19th Century Lutheran-Anglican Missionary Literature: Moving Forward from Public Debates to Public Dialogue”
Gwynne Guibord (Anglican) – Founder and President of “The Guibord Center – Religion Inside Out” and Episcopal priest – “Standing Together: A Grassroots Model of Christian – Muslim Dialogue and Study.
Yvonne Haddad – Professor of History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, “Anglican Approaches to Christian-Muslim Dialogue: A reassessment”
Mark N. Swanson (Lutheran) - Harold S. Vogelaar Professor of Christian-Muslim Studies and Interfaith Relations at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, “What Dialogue? In Search of Arabic-language Christian-Muslim conversation in the early Islamic centuries”.
Papers will be published within 1-2 years of the conference.