My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Tran [Paperback]

Jennifer Howe Peace (Author), Or Rose (Author), Gregory Mobley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 20, 2012

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?

Contributors include: Mary Boys, Rita Nakishima-Brock; Arthur Green; Ruben Habito; Paul Knitter; Michael Lerner; Eboo Patel; Judith Plaskow; Paul Raushenbush; Arthur Waskow; and many more.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Provocative . . . . [In My Neighbor s Faith] long-held assumptions are rethought, unlikely friendships are formed, and suspicions overcome. More often than not, the writers are surprised at what they learn about other religions, and about themselves. --Booklist

About the Author

Jennifer Howe Peace is assistant professor of Interfaith Studies at Andover Newton Theological School and Co-Director of CIRCLE: The Center for Inter-Religious and Communal Leadership Education (a joint venture of Hebrew College and Andover Newton Theological School.) Rabbi Or Rose is Associate Dean at the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College and Co-Director of CIRCLE. Gregory Mobley is professor of Old Testament at Andover Newton Theological School and co-founder of CIRCLE. He is an ordained Baptist minister.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Orbis Books (March 20, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570759588
• ISBN-13: 978-1570759581
• Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 6 x 9.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #138,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gregory Mobley is inspired by and seeks to be inspiring about the Bible.
Mobley is Professor of Christian Bible at Andover Newton Theological Seminary in Newton, MA.
I want writing about the Bible to be as soulful and idiomatic as the Bible itself is.
I write for people like me, who are grateful to be alive and to have the gift of consciousness, and who will never, never give up their right to think and speak freely.
By the way, everything is holy.