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- In the Company of Friends: Exploring Faith and Understanding with Buddhists and Christians
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
Buddhist-Christian reflection that uses friendship as a model for interreligious understanding. In this work of Buddhist-Christian reflection, John Ross Carter explores two basic aspects of human religiousness: faith and the activity of understanding. Carter’s perspective is unique, putting people and their experiences at the center of inquiry into religiousness. His model and method grows out of friendship, challenging the so-called objective approach to the study of religion that privileges patterns, concepts, and abstraction.Carter considers the traditions he knows best, the Protestant Christianity he was born into and the Theravada and Jodo Shinshu (Pure Land) traditions of the Sri Lankan and Japanese friends among whom he has lived, studied, and worked. His rich, wide-ranging accounts of religious experience include discussions of transcendence, reason, sam|vega, shinjin, the inconceivable, and whether lives oriented toward faith will survive in a global context with increased pressures for individualism and secularism. Ultimately, Carter proposes that the endeavor of interreligious understanding is itself a religious quest.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxiii-xxv
- Introductory Note
- pp. xxvii-xxxii
- List of Abbreviations
- p. xxxiii
- I: The Quest for Religious Understanding with Theravāda, Jōdo Shinshū Buddhists, and Christians
- II: The Dynamics of Faith and Beyond: Personally and in an Ever-Expanding Community
- Chapter 6: Celebrating Our Faith
- pp. 63-72
- Chapter 7: Colloquia in Faith
- pp. 73-82
- III: Converging Affirmations from Different Perspectives
- Chapter 9: Love and Compassion as Given
- pp. 99-108
- IV: Building from Our Past into Our Common Future
- V: The Challenge of Our Future
- Chapter 18: Will There Be Faith on Earth?
- pp. 217-224
- Bibliography
- pp. 291-303
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438442815
MARC Record
OCLC
817565517
Pages
368
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No