Assistant Professor
My primary area of research is in the study of contemporary interreligious relations, with a focus on Jewish-Christian relations. My research also includes work in Israel studies, memory and place studies, and ritual studies.
BOOKS
The Nun in the Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel. Penn State University Press,
2020.
Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Interreligious Hermeneutics: Ways of Seeing the Religious
Other. Editor. Currents of Encounter. Brill-Rodopi, 2018.
Remembering the Future: The Experience of Time in Jewish and Christian Liturgy. Liturgical
Press, 2015.
The Idea of the Holy Land: Memory, Myth, and Imagination. Book manuscript in progress.
Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visions of the Past and Future of Jerusalem. Edited volume in progress.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
“A Smothering Embrace? Hermeneutical Issues in Catholic Discourse about Jews and Judaism.”
Harvard Theological Review, forthcoming.
“Jewish-Christian Identities in Conflict: The Cases of Fr. Daniel Rufeisen and Fr. Elias
Friedman.” Religions Vol. 12 (2021): 1-15.
“Liturgy, Performance Theory, and Aesthetic Experience.” Journal of Ritual Studies, Vol. 34,
no. 2 (2020): 29-38.
“Christian-Jewish Dialogue in the Monasteries of Jerusalem: An Evolution of Monastic
Interreligious Dialogue.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies Vol. 53, no. 4 (Fall 2018): 521-540.
“Constructions of Christian Identity and the Idea of the Holy Land: A Reciprocal Relationship.”
Israel Studies, Vol.23, no. 1 (2018): 177-195.
“Methodological Considerations on the Role of Experience in Comparative Theology.” In How
to Do Comparative Theology: European and American Perspectives in Dialogue. Ed. F.X.
Clooney and K. von Stosch, 259-270. Fordham University Press, 2018.
“Theorizing Sacred Place in Jerusalem: Identity, Yearning, and the Invention of Tradition.”
Journal of Beliefs and Values, Vol. 38, no. 3 (2017).
“Sacred Time as Sacred Space: The Spaces of Memory and Anticipation in Christianity and
Judaism.” In Contested Spaces, Common Ground? Ed. O.B. Leirvik, L. Rodriguez, and U.
Winkler, 73-81. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2016.
“Psalmic Recitation as a Performance of Memory and Hope in Jewish and Christian Prayer.”
Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, Vol. 12, no. 1 (2013).
“Embodying Tradition: Liturgical Performance as a Site for Interreligious Learning.”
CrossCurrents, Vol. 62, no. 3 (2012): 371-380.
While attending Merrimack’s Professional Development Retreat, Grant Jackson ’23 networked his way into a summer internship in the coastal town of Rockport, Mass.
