Description
Leading writers from many religious traditions describe moments of transformation and growth through their interreligious encounters.
This groundbreaking volume gathers an array of inspiring and penetrating stories about the interreligious encounters of outstanding community leaders, scholars, public intellectuals, and activist from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. With wisdom, wit, courage, and humility, these writers from a range of religious backgrounds share their personal experience of "border-crossing," and the lessons learned from their interreligious adventures. We live in the most religiously diverse society in the history of humankind. Every day, people of different religious beliefs and practices encounter one another in a myriad of settings. How has this new situation of religious diversity impacted the way we understand the religious "other," ourselves, and God? Can we learn to live together with mutual respect, working together for the creation of a more compassionate and just world?
Author: Jennifer Howe Peace
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 03/20/2012
Pages: 283
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.06w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9781570759581
ISBN10: 1570759588
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Comparative Religion
- Religion | Spirituality