Interfaith Engagement Beyond the Divide Approaches, Experiences, and Practices

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.