Scott C. Alexander

Scott C. Alexander is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Director of Catholic-Muslim Studies at Catholic Theological Union.

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Religion Dispatches

A Plea to Jewish Leaders: Help Us Reject All Institutional Efforts to Convert Muslims and Other People of Faith

I’m currently trying to finish a book manuscript on the malevolent effects of what I identify as “triumphalism” in Christian-Muslim relations. I define “triumphalism” as a mode of relating to…

Scott C. Alexander

May 26, 2016

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Religion Dispatches

Thanks But No Thanks: How a Noted Theologian's Defense of Larycia Hawkins Goes Bizarrely Astray

Miroslav Volf’s recent WaPo op-ed is an example of the kind of interfaith intervention we’d be better off without.

Scott C. Alexander

December 20, 2015

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Religion Dispatches

Does ISIS Vindicate Pope Benedict’s Islam Remarks, as George Weigel Believes?

In September of 2006, His Holiness Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sent seismic shockwaves through the terrain of Catholic-Muslim relations. In the midst of a characteristically erudite lecture on the…

Scott C. Alexander

November 7, 2014

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