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on
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issue:
"Engaging
Religious Pluralism"
Promoting
'franchises' to end religious violence--
an interview with William Swing
by Julie A. Wortman
William Swing, the Episcopal Bishop of California, since 1993 has been working
on a United Religions Initiative aimed at eliminating religiously motivated
violence. "Some day," he says, "religions are going to have to become accountable
for their own contribution to terrorism." Spanish
version here.
'The
multi-colored wisdom of God': A Pentecost paradigm
by Christopher Duraisingh
As the world cries out for signs that human community is still possible despite
profound divisions, scholar Christopher Duraisingh believes the Pentecost story
offers an authentic way of dealing with pluralism.
Is
it possible to get along with fundamentalists?
an interview with Martin E. Marty
by Camille Colatosti
With U.S. news reports full of talk about "Muslim fundamentalists" and "extremists,"
religion scholar Martin Marty's Fundamentalism Project, a scholarly survey of
fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism
and Buddhism, offers valuable insights.
Exercising
tolerance: a protection from our deepest fears?
by Elizabeth Kaeton
An encounter with a Muslim woman on a commuter train sets a liberal priest to
thinking about Jesus' most fervent prayer -- "so that they may be one, as we
are one."
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