Sr. Gerardette Philips, RSCJ, (Religiuses du Sacre Coeur de Jesus) was born in India. She has been living and serving in Jakarta/Bandung – Indonesia over the last twenty years. She serves as the Director of Formation and District Leader of the RSCJ in Indonesia. With her Masters Degree in Special Education she has taught children with special needs as well as developed the curriculum for Training Teachers for the Developmentally Handicapped. She is actively engaged in Dialogue among people of different religions, particularly between Muslims and Catholics.  Her Masters and Doctorate Studies in Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism offered a new approach to Dialogue. Her Doctoral Thesis was ‘Beyond Pluralism: Open Integrity as a suitable approach to Muslim-Christian Dialogue." Over the years in Indonesia she has taught in Catholic and Muslim Universities, given Spiritual Direction, Retreats, Counselling, Peace Programs, Character Education and Peace Building, and Healing programs to children, youth and adults from various cultures and religions. In 2005 she was appointed as Consultor to Pope Benedict XVI in the  Pontifical Council of Interreligious Dialogue, Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims. In October 2007 Sr. Gerardette was invited to be a Speaker of the UN-62nd General Assembly at the United Nations on Best Practices and Strategies for Interreligious and Intercultural cooperation for peace: Going Forward. Since June 2009 she has been a lecturer in Parahayangan Catholic University and since January 2014 a Lecturer at the Faculty of Religious Studies-Bandung State Islamic University.

Sr. Gerardette has published “Beyond Pluralism” in English and “Integritas Terbuka” (Open Integrity) along with a module for teachers of Religion in Indonesian. She has published several articles,  has been the resource person at national and international seminars and forums on topics of  Education, Peace, Theology, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality and Interreligious Dialogue.

(Religiuses du Sacre Coeur de Jesus) was born in India. She has been living and serving in Jakarta/Bandung – Indonesia over the last twenty years. She serves as the Director of Formation and District Leader of the RSCJ in Indonesia. With her Masters Degree in Special Education she has taught children with special needs as well as developed the curriculum for Training Teachers for the Developmentally Handicapped. She is actively engaged in Dialogue among people of different religions, particularly between Muslims and Catholics.  Her Masters and Doctorate Studies in Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism offered a new approach to Dialogue. Her Doctoral Thesis was ‘Beyond Pluralism: Open Integrity as a suitable approach to Muslim-Christian Dialogue." Over the years in Indonesia she has taught in Catholic and Muslim Universities, given Spiritual Direction, Retreats, Counselling, Peace Programs, Character Education and Peace Building, and Healing programs to children, youth and adults from various cultures and religions. In 2005 she was appointed as Consultor to Pope Benedict XVI in the  Pontifical Council of Interreligious Dialogue, Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims. In October 2007 Sr. Gerardette was invited to be a Speaker of the UN-62nd General Assembly at the United Nations on Best Practices and Strategies for Interreligious and Intercultural cooperation for peace: Going Forward. Since June 2009 she has been a lecturer in Parahayangan Catholic University and since January 2014 a Lecturer at the Faculty of Religious Studies-Bandung State Islamic University.

Sr. Gerardette has published “Beyond Pluralism” in English and “Integritas Terbuka” (Open Integrity) along with a module for teachers of Religion in Indonesian. She has published several articles,  has been the resource person at national and international seminars and forums on topics of  Education, Peace, Theology, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality and Interreligious Dialogue.

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