Interreligious Dialogue as Policy Delivery: Three German Cities

Several significant studies over the last twenty years have called practices of interreligious dialogue into question, especially as tools of governmental control. This is a feature of studies both by interreligious practitioners who reflect on their own practices and by those who study them from outside. This article reviews some of these critical discourses at the intersection of interreligious studies and geography, and considers them in relation to three cities in Germany where detailed studies of interreligious dialogue have been undertaken over the last ten years: Erlangen (Winkler 2017), Hamburg (Körs and Nagel 2018), and Osnabrück (Konyali et al., 2019).