My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570759588 ISBN 13: 9781570759581

Verlag: Orbis Books (USA), 2012

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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?

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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?

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Orbis Books (USA)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1570759588
• ISBN 13: 9781570759581
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
• Herausgeber: Peace Jennifer Howe, Rose Or N., Mobley George
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar