Strategies for Interreligious and Inter-Muslim Dialogue: A Proposed Methodology

Abstract

This article describes a simple adapted methodology of strategy formulation which minority Muslim organizations can use to formulate their own growth strategies using small Muslim groups and both interreligious and inter-Muslim dialogue. The methodology combines with a portfolio of choices of different genres of Christian–Muslim dialogue, observed in practice, which can also be adapted for planning and programming inter-Muslim dialogue. The objectives may include improved relations between Muslims and Christians, increased cohesion across minority Muslim communities, as well as the revivification of involved local minority Muslim communities. The method of strategy formulation with the portfolio of different genres of dialogue can be used to plan and program elite and non-elite dialogue across communities, providing theoretically for an expansion of dialogue across communities.