Religious Diversity-What's the Problem?: Buddhist Advice for Flourishing with Religious Diversity - Couverture souple

Gross, Rita M.

 
9781620324097: Religious Diversity-What's the Problem?: Buddhist Advice for Flourishing with Religious Diversity
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1620324091 ISBN 13 : 9781620324097
Editeur : Cascade Books, 2014

Synopsis

Once upon a time, on grounds of both religion and common sense, people assumed that the earth was flat and that the sun literally rose and set each day. When newly developing knowledge made those beliefs untenable, giving them up was difficult. Today the belief that only one of the world's various religions is true for all people on earth is equivalent to the belief in a flat earth. Both notions have become untenable, given contemporary knowledge about religion. Even though many people are still troubled by the existence of religious diversity today, that diversity is a fact of life. Religious diversity should be no more troubling to religious people than the fact that the earth is round and circles the sun. This provocative book, based on the author's longtime practice of Buddhism and comparative study of religion, provides tools with which one can truly appreciate religious diversity as a gift and resource rather than as a deficiency or a problem to be overcome. After we accept diversity as inevitable and become comfortable with it, diversity always enriches life-both nature and culture.

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À propos de l?auteur

Rita M. Gross is Professor Emerita of Comparative Studies of Religion at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a Senior Dharma Teacher in the Nyingma Lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism. A past president of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, she has participated in many forums for interreligious exchange. Gross is the author of many books and articles. Her major work is Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism (1993).

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Éditeur
Cascade Books
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1620324091
ISBN 13 
9781620324097
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
376
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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ISBN 10 :  1498215793 ISBN 13 :  9781498215794
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