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Announcing a new series: FAITH IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD This series of
books explores what it means to live and worship among the many
faiths unique to America's neighborhoods. Each book in the series
illuminates the questions Christians have about other faiths such
as Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Baha'i,
Zoroastrianism, Afro-Caribbean religions, Native-American
religions, Confucianism, and Shinto. Different faiths have
different ideals of community, and different kinds of rules. In
"Belonging" Lucinda Mosher explores the vocabulary of America's
many religions, the theologies and rituals that create a sense of
belonging, and how these religions handle life's stages--welcoming
babies, rites of passage for adolescents, initiation, and
conversion. Interwoven with interviews and personal stories,
"Belonging" is intended for interfaith education of all kinds. A
quick guide to each religion, a glossary, and recommended reading
are included.
"Praying" is the second in a series of books that offer Christians
a new way of understanding what it means to live and worship among
America's many faiths, and introduces them to the religions that
make up the American neighborhood. "Praying" will explore public,
family, and individual worship in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism,
Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Baha'i, Zoroastrianism, American
indigenous spiritualities, Chinese spiritualities (Confucianism,
Taoism), Shinto, and Afro-Caribbean religions. Praying answers and
discusses questions such as these: How does your religion
understand/measure the passage of time: daily, weekly, annually,
over the course of a lifetime? What is the vocabulary of ritual and
practice in your religion? (e.g., worship, prayer, meditation,
pilgrimage, feasting and fasting) Is there a distinction between
public and private/individual worship/practice in your religion?
What are this religion's most distinctive practices? What makes
them so significant? "Praying "includes a quick guide to each
religion, a glossary, and recommended reading.
In Toward Our Mutual Flourishing: The Episcopal Church,
Interreligious Relations, and Theologies of Religious Manyness, the
author tells the story of The Episcopal Church's development of an
official rationale for its ongoing engagement with religious
diversity. At once a work of historical, moral, and practical
theology, this volume contextualizes and explains what one church
teaches about how religious difference may be interpreted in
Christian terms. Through guided reading of noteworthy documents,
this book explores such themes as this church's preference for
ecumenical interfaith work, its particular attention to
Christian-Jewish and Christian-Muslim concerns, the relationship
between missiology and theological understanding of religious
diversity, and the intersection of interreligious relations with
other ecclesial concerns - peace and justice activism, liturgical
reform efforts, and what it means to be "the Body of Christ" in the
twenty-first century. The author thus positions this multinational,
multicultural, multilingual denomination within the Interfaith
Movement, the Anglican theological tradition, and the various
schemes for analyzing Christian theologies of religions. About The
Episcopal Church (but not just for Episcopalians), about
Christianity (but not just for Christians), this book is an
excellent resource for courses in interreligious dialogue,
Christian ethics, and American religious history.
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