Interreligious/Interfaith Studies

Jennifer Howe Peace is an interfaith educator and religious scholar with a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union, an M.A. in Theological Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and a B.A. from Connecticut College. She served as an associate professor of interfaith studies at Andover Newton Theological School and directed its Center for Interreligious and Communal Leadership Education.

Peace co-founded the American Academy of Religion’s Interreligious and Interfaith Studies group and founded the Association for Interreligious/Interfaith Studies. She is co-editor, with Eboo Patel and Noah J. Silverman, of Interreligious/Interfaith Studies: Defining a New Field, and co-edited My Neighbor’s Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation with Or N. Rose and Gregory Mobley.

Noah J. Silverman is a scholar and interfaith practitioner who has served as Senior Director of Learning and Partnerships at Interfaith Youth Core and as Senior Director of Learning at Interfaith America. His interfaith work has included positions with Auburn Theological Seminary, Religions for Peace at the United Nations, and the Tony Blair Faith Foundation in London.

Silverman is coeditor, with Eboo Patel and Jennifer Howe Peace, of Interreligious/Interfaith Studies: Defining a New Field (Beacon Press, 2018), an anthology examining the development, theory, and practice of interreligious and interfaith studies.