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Counting Christian Noses
In December 2011 the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (Washington) issued A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Christian Population. Some of the data were developed in collaboration with the Center for the Study of … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Inter-faith Dialogue, Pentecostalism
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Religious Double Citizenship
In its January 25, 2011 issue, The Christian Century, the banner publication of liberal Protestantism, carried an interesting cover story (subscription required) by Amy Frykholm with the title “Double Belonging”. Not only did the cover contain a graphic illustration for … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Christianity, Inter-faith Dialogue, Islam, Judaism
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Interfaith Kumbaya?
A few days before Thanksgiving The New York Times carried a brief report about a pre-holiday interfaith breakfast in Westchester County, the affluent suburban area just north of New York City. It was convened by Rabbi Mark Sameth, known as … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Hinduism, Inter-faith Dialogue, United States
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Bloody Borders
In the book which has by now become an important point of reference, The Clash of Civilizations (1996), the late Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington developed the thesis that after the demise of the Cold War conflicts would be between … Continue reading
Posted in Inter-faith Dialogue, Islam, Religion
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A Centennial not much Noticed
I don’t know what occurs to the average newspaper reader if one observes that 2010 marks a centennial. Whatever happened in 1910? Some international incident anticipating World War I? A revolution in China? As I’ve just discovered, the first congress … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Inter-faith Dialogue, Religion
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Proposing a Cosmic Christ
On August 26 Raimon Panikkar died at age 91, in a village near Barcelona, the city in which he was raised. There have been obituaries in both the religious and the secular press. I read a fairly extensive one in … Continue reading
Posted in Hinduism, Inter-faith Dialogue, Religion, Sociology
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