Tying the Knot versus Bonds with God: Jews and Muslims in Interfaith Marriages
The Others’ Faith: World Religions through the Lens of Judaism and Islam (video recording available, in German)
The fifth event of our lecture series The Others’ Faith is dedicated to the question: Does interfaith marital bliss require religious relativism?
recording available
Madeleine Dreyfus and Imen Gallala-Arndt discuss, if interfaith marital bliss requires religious relativism. Event from 18 June 2020, in German; Jewish Museum Berlin 2020
Love goes beyond religious and cultural barriers, or at least that is what many believe. The growing number of interfaith marriages in Europe and the United States does seem to confirm this. But in day-to-day life, couples who practice different faiths confront a variety of challenges.
How do Jews and Muslims handle this? How can someone strike a balance between their own religious beliefs and their partner’s – and pass on those beliefs to children? And finally, how do the religious authorities react to interdenominational marriages?
A discussion with Madeleine Dreyfus (cultural anthropologist and psychoanalyst) and Imen Gallala-Arndt (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) chaired by Alina Gromova, Jewish Museum Berlin.
Madeleine Dreyfus
Madeleine Dreyfus is a psychoanalyst with a doctorate in cultural anthropology. She is the author of the book Ein ziemlich jüdisches Leben: Säkulare Identitäten im Spannungsfeld interreligiöser Beziehungen (A Fairly Jewish Life: Between Secular Identities and Interfaith Relationships), which explores the Jewish identities of people who came from or live in interfaith households and want to pass on their Jewishness to the next generation.
Imen Gallala-Arndt
Imen Gallala-Arndt is a lawyer and a lecturer at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. Her research focuses on legal reforms in Arab countries. Considering the examples of Lebanon, Tunisia, and Israel, she has investigated how interfaith marriages relate to the tensions between religious and civil law.
Madeleine Dreyfus (left), photo: Julien Vonier, Imen Gallala-Arndt, photo: private
Lecture Series 2019/20: The Others’ Faith (6)
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The Others’ Faith
This lecture series explores the complex relationship of Judaism and Islam to the other religions. Two researchers are invited to each event who present the topic from Jewish and Islamic perspectives and enter into dialog with each other.
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On the Path to Enlightenment: Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism
With Jerome Gellman (Ben-Gurion University) und Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University)
Video Recording
24 Sep 2020 -
Tying the Knot versus Bonds with God: Jews and Muslims in Interfaith Marriages
With Madeleine Dreyfus (psychoanalyst with a doctorate in cultural anthropology) und Imen Gallala-Arndt (lawyer and a lecturer at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology), in German
Video Recording
18 Jun 2020 -
Non-Transcendental Morality: Judaism, Islam, and Atheism
With Jacques Berlinerblau (Georgetown University) and Ufuk Topkara (Johns Hopkins University), in German and English
Video Recording
20 Apr 2020 -
What Do You Think about Jesus? Judaism, Islam, and Christianity
With Israel Yuval (Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and Maha El Kaisy-Friemuth (Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), in German and English
Video Recording
18 Feb 2020 -
Mono or Poly? Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism
With Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein (Elijah Interfaith Institute) and Reza Shah-Kazemi (Institute of Ismaili Studies in London)
Video Recording
4 Feb 2020 -
Judaism and Islam – The History of Theological Relations
With Lukas Mühlethaler (Free University Berlin) and Imam Abdullah Antepli (Duke University, USA), in German and English
Video Recording
21 Nov 2019
