Religion : Comparative Religion

After years as a Hollywood writer and filmmaker, Kristin Hahn felt a crisis of faith: she had no spiritual group she could call her own. Setting out on a three-year journey, she began an investigation of America's religious traditions, practices, and beliefs. Crisscrossing the nation, Hahn spent a week cloistered in prayer with convent nuns and a month of Ramadan fasting with Muslims. She went door-to-door with young Mormon missionaries and head-to-head with turbaned Sikh yogis. She sat through marathon meditations with Buddhist masters and spent days in conversation and ceremony with an 0jibwe medicine man. Her explorations exposed her to the rich, ancient culture of the Jews and brought her into the enclaves of Christian Scientists and Amish farmers, as well as the less traditional realms of Scientology, neopagan witchcraft, and the congregations of new-age gurus. And this was only the beginning. Openhearted, humorous, and always thoughtful, In Search of Grace offers nourishment for our spiritual hunger -- and a myriad of ways to find a religious home. more...

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Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today.: The 1990s saw the U.S. Navy commission its first Muslim chaplain and open its first mosque.; There are presently more than three hundred temples in Los Angeles, home to the greatest variety of Buddhists in the world.; There are more American Muslims than there are American Episcopalians, Jews, or Presbyterians. more...

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The United States is the most religiously diverse. nation in the world and the most religiously diverse. collection of people in history. And even in this age of. increasing religious violence, there is a growing movement. of cooperation: thousands of devout worshippers. who are willing to take a gamble on people of radically. different faiths. In this insightful, deeply felt examination of the. nature of community and religion, former New York. Times religion reporter Gustav Niebuhr traces the. roots of religious freedom in America and the setbacks. and triumphs it has encountered along the way. From. Hindus and Quakers in Queens to Catholics and. Jews in Baltimore, to black Baptists and Catholics in. Louisville, to Catholics and Buddhists in Los Angeles,. Niebuhr focuses on the ways people build ties between. groups. He looks at why this movement is a particularly. American endeavor and how it can save us all. Beyond Tolerance is a handbook for religious cooperation. in our fractured times. more...

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Explores various religious explanations of natural tragedies through interviews with prominent religious leaders across the religious spectrum more...

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Former Congressman and Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Mark D. Siljander takes us on an eye-opening journey of personal, religious, and political discovery. In the 1980s, Siljander was a newly minted Reagan Republican from Michigan who joined Congress in the same generation as Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay, ready to remake the world. A staunch member of the Religious Right, he once walked out of the National Prayer Breakfast when a speaker quoted from the Qur'an. But after losing reelection, Siljander dove into the Bible to look for the passage in which the Bible says it is our job as Christians to convert others in order to save them from eternal damnation. He couldn't find it; in fact, he couldn't even find a passage saying that Jesus set out to form a new religion. This discovery was the first step on a spiritual and political journey that started with an in-depth linguistic study of the Bible and led to the discovery that Christianity and Islam share many base words and concepts. In his role as ambassador to the United Nations Siljander began sharing his insights on the connections between Islam and Christianity, with surprising results. A Deadly Misunderstanding recounts Siljander's amazing discoveries as he travels to some of the most remote and hostile places in the world—deep into Libya, Sudan, Pakistan, and India—forging deep ties with both heads of state and religious leaders. What he has learned could radically shift the contemporary religious landscape and help heal the rift between Islam and the West. No Christian or Muslim will be unaffected after reading this book. more...

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