Sandra Keating
Professor
Education:
Ph.D. - Religious Studies, The Catholic University of America
Area(s) of Expertise:
Christian-Muslim Relations
Selected Publications:
Keating, S. (2020) Religious Minorities in Christian, Jewish and Muslim Laws (5th–15th Centuries), edited by N. Berend, Y. Hameau-Masset, C. Nemo-Pekelman and J. Tolan. (31), London: Taylor & Francis Online
Keating, S. (2020) Monotheism and Its Complexities: Christian and Muslim Perspectives, edited by L. Mosher and D. Marshall. (81), South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame
Keating, S. (2020) In Douglas Pratt, Charles Tieszen (Ed.), Defending the Faith. Lines of Apology. (15), Leiden: Brill
Keating, S. (2019) In David Bertaina, Sandra Keating, Mark Swanson, Alexander Treiger (Ed.), The Rationality of Christian Doctrine: Abū Rāʾiṭa al-Takrītī’s Philosophical Response to Islam. (1), Leiden: Brill
Keating, S. (2018) In David Thomas (Ed.), Major concepts in Muslim-Christian encounters. New York: Routledge
Keating, S. (2018) In David Thomas (Ed.), The first Arabic-speaking Christian theologians. New York: Routledge
Keating, S. (2018) In Charles Tieszen (Ed.), The Paraclete and the Integrity of Scripture.
Keating, S. (2018) In Mark Beaumont (Ed.), Manipulation of the Qurʾan in the Epistolary Exchange between al-Hāshimī and al-Kindī. (35), Leiden: Brill
Keating, S. (2014) In I.C. Levy, R. George-Tvrtkovic, D. Duclow (Ed.), Revisiting the Charge of Taḥrīf: The Question of Supersessionism in Early Islam and the Qur’ān. (SMRT 183), Leiden: Brill
Keating, S. (2013) In James J. Buckley and Michael Root (Ed.), Abū Rā’iṭah al-Takrītī and God’s Divine Pedagogy. Eugene, OR: Cascade
Keating, S. (2011) Interreligious Dialogue with Muslims: Reflections on Yesterday and Today. International Journal of African Catholicism.(2), 54-64.
Keating, S. (2011) Some reflections on the early discussion concerning the ṣifāt Allāh: ‘cross-fertilization and cooperation in the Islamic milieu’. .(22), 23-35.
Selected Presentations:
Keating, S. Aquinas Lecture Series. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT - "Seeking Common Ground: Muslim-Christian Relations, Past, Present and Future" November, 2018
Keating, S. . Athenaeum of Ohio / Mount St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati, OH - "Is Allah the Father of Jesus? What We Have Learned from 50 Years of Dialogue with Muslims" October, 2018
Keating, S. Fall Meeting. Catholic and Muslim Scholars in Dialogue, Washington, DC - "The Al-Hashimi - Al-Kindi Correspondence: What Value Does It Have Today for Dialogue" October, 2018
Keating, S. National Muslim-Catholic Dialogue Meeting. USCCB, University of St Mary of the Lakes, Mundelein, IL - "Overcoming Prejudice through Dialogue: The Value of Nostra Aetate Today" March, 2018
Keating, S. Arguing against: Logical Reasoning and Arguments in Religious Controversies (8th-10th Centuries). European Research Council, University of Vienna, Austria - "The Logic of Christian Doctrine: Abū Rāʾiṭa al-Takrītī’s Philosophical Response to Islam" March, 2018
Keating, S. Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America. USCCB, Orlando, FL - "Panel: Dialogue, Relationships and Encounter: The Ecumenical and Interreligious Landscape" July, 2017
Keating, S. Faculty In-Service. Bishop Hendricken High School, Warwick, RI - "What is Islam?" March, 2016
Keating, S. Symposium of Christian Arabic Literature. Canadian Society for Syriac Studies, Wycliffe College, Toronto, Ontario - "The Development of Christian Apologetical Strategies in Response to the Islamic Accusations of taḥrīf in the Early ‘Abbasid Period" November, 2015
Keating, S. 7th North American Syriac Symposium. North American Syriac Society, Washington, DC - "Paper: A Brief Examination of the Biblical Sources for the Apology of al-Kindī" June, 2015
Keating, S. Vatican II: Remembering the Future. Georgetown University, Washington, DC - "Paper: Nostra Aetate and Muslims: Can we really 'forget the past'?" May, 2015
Keating, S. Jubilee Year of the PISAI. Pontifical Institute for the Study of Arabic and Islam, Rome, Italy - "Teaching Islam in the 21st Century: Meeting the Challenge of Nostra Aetate in Catholic Educational Institutions" March, 2015
Keating, S. The St. Marie-Eugénie Milleret Lecture. Ecumentical Institute at Assumption College, Worcester, MA - "'In Our Times:' Catholic-Muslim Dialogue 50 Years after Nostra Aetate" February, 2015
Keating, S. Mid-Atlantic Catholic-Muslim Dialogue. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Islamic Circle of North America, Somerset, NJ - "Teaching Religious Diversity in a Secularized world" April, 2014
Keating, S. Christians and Muslims: Early Encounters. Department of Religious Studies, Brown University, Brown University - "Respondent to Sidney Griffith and Michael Penn" February, 2014
Keating, S. Patterns of Argumentation in Late Antique and Early Islamic Interreligious Debates. European Research Council Project : Defining Belief and Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Role of Interreligious Debate and Interaction, King's College, London, UK - "Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal and Al-Radd ʿalā l-Zanādiqa wa-l-Jahmiya: Exegesis of Anthropomorphic Verses of the Qurʾān" February, 2014
Keating, S. Interfaith Academy: Muslim-Christian Dialogue in the Modern World. , Rome, Italy - "Conference Organizer" September, 2013
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