For Immediate Press Release
30 March, 2026
The Global Interfaith Scholarship Network
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Oxford Interfaith Forum, in collaboration with Interfaith America,
is pleased to be launching H-Interfaith: The world’s
largest academic consortium dedicated to interfaith education,
sponsored by H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online.
H-Interfaith is a vibrant academic interfaith network and a digital repository of its resources. Sponsored by H-Net, H-Interfaith produces and distributes interfaith scholarship that is accessible globally. Certified Network Editors moderate the platform, supported by the Advisory Board.
By joining the H-Net consortium’s 200+ discipline-specific networks, H-Interfaith fosters interfaith dialogue across the Humanities and Social Sciences and upholds high academic standards. Participants from all faith backgrounds or none are welcome, with multilingual resources and opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration not commonly available elsewhere.
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To follow Oxford Interfaith Forum’s events, You are cordially invited to subscribe to H-Interfaith by selecting “subscribe to this network” in the right-hand menu.
The H-Interfaith digital platform connects scholars through conferences, workshops, webinars, seminars, lectures, publications, fellowships, and summer programs, offered both virtually and in person. The network also commissions book reviews and creates research clusters to facilitate collaboration among H-Net networks, furthering academic inquiry through interfaith, intercultural, and interethnic perspectives. H-Interfaith prepares future generations to engage constructively with diverse religious worldviews and equips them with relevant knowledge and skills.
The H-Interfaith Network functions as a central hub for various faith, cultural, and ethnic communities. It fosters international interfaith cooperation rooted in mutual respect and a shared commitment to nurturing pluralistic academic societies worldwide. It supports intellectual exchange and open access to information, offering resources such as calls for proposals, grants, prizes, and job opportunities.
FREE Membership provides access to professional development resources and allows members to share information about their events. Subscribers may opt to receive immediate notifications (individual emails) or daily summaries (digests) to stay up to date on interfaith scholarship, events, and opportunities according to their personal preference.
We welcome your participation in the digital environment of interfaith learning, where each member strengthens our positive and inclusive community.
H-Interfaith Network Editors:
Daniel Diaz, Oxford Interfaith Forum / Columbia University
Rev Wadigala Samitharathana, Oxford Interfaith Forum / University of Oxford
H-Interfaith Advisory Board Members:
Dr Thea Gomelauri, Director of Oxford Interfaith Forum, UK
Dr Todd Green, Senior Director of Campus Partnerships, Interfaith America, USA
Prof Ismail Lala, Professor of Philosophy at the Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait
Prof Syed Atif Rizwan, Assistant Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies, Director of the Catholic-Muslim Studies Program, Catholic Theological Union, USA
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H-Net is a global academic consortium known as
‘the most dynamic and effective contribution to the internationalisation of scholarship’.1
It operates from its computing centre at Michigan State University, USA.
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1 Steven A. Leibo, “H-Net and the Internationalisation of Scholarship”, Perspectives: The Newsletter of the American Historical Association, 33: 5 (May–June 1995).
