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I am also thankful to you, dear reader, for buying books, filling them with your notes, discussing them, reviewing them, and recommending them to your friends. As important as religious literacy has become to me, everyday literacy still takes first place. The more we read, the wider our worlds become. The more books we love, the larger our hearts grow. May your tribe—and the fortunes of independent booksellers—increase.
And then there is Ed. What is left to say? There is no one in the world who gets me, upholds me, challenges me, or teaches me as much as he does. I cannot imagine life without him, and I thank God I do not have to.
Notes
CHAPTER 1
1.Donald E. Chapman, “Estevanico,” Texas State Historical Association, accessed August 15, 2018, https://tshaonline.org /handbook/online/articles/fes08/.
2.“Early American Mosques,” The Pluralism Project, Harvard University, accessed February 2, 2018, http://pluralism.org /religions/islam/islam-in-america/early-american-mosques/.
3.“Hinduism in America,” The Pluralism Project, Harvard University, accessed February 2, 2018, http://pluralism.org /timeline/hinduism-in-america/.
4.“Buddhists in the American West,” The Pluralism Project, Harvard University, accessed February 2, 2018, http://pluralism.org /religions/buddhism/buddhism-in-america/buddhists-in-the-american-west/.
5.“Charleston, South Carolina,” Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities (Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, 2017), accessed February 2, 2018; http://www.isjl.org/south-carolina-charleston-encyclopedia.html.
6.“The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act),” Office of the Historian, accessed March 31, 2018. https://history.state.gov /milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act.
CHAPTER 2
1.“Lord of the Dance,” words: Sydney Carter, Copyright © 1963 Stainer & Bell, Ltd. (Admin. Hope Publishing Company, Carol Stream, IL 60188). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
2.Paul Dilley, “Jesus as Lord of the Dance,” Bible History Daily, August 15, 2016, https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily /biblical-topics/post-biblical-period/jesus-as-lord-of-the-dance/.
3.Ian Bradley, Daily Telegraph Book of Hymns (London: Continuum, 2005), 185.
4.Sydney Carter, “Lord of the Dance,” © 1963, Stainer & Bell, Ltd. (Admin. Hope Publishing Company, Carol Stream, IL 60188).
CHAPTER 3
1.Martin Palmer, The Jesus Sutras: Rediscovering the Lost Scrolls of Taoist Christianity (New York: Wellspring/Ballantine, 2001).
2.Paul F. Knitter, Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian (Oxford: Oneworld, 2009), 216.
3.Eboo Patel, Acts of Faith (Boston: Beacon, 2007), 94.
CHAPTER 4
1.Douglas Martin, “Krister Stendahl, 86, Ecumenical Bishop, Is Dead,” New York Times, April 16, 2008.
2.Farīd ud-Dīn ʻAṭṭār, and A. J. Arberry, “Rabe’a al-Adawiya,” in Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat al-Auliya (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966), 51.
3.Yehezkel Landau, “An Interview with Krister Stendahl,” Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Winter 2007.
4.“The Buddha’s Farewell,” Internet Sacred Text Archive, accessed April 1, 2018, http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/btg /btg94.htm.
5.Robert Farrar Capon, Hunting the Divine Fox: Images and Mystery in Christian Faith (New York: Seabury, 1974), 1.
6.Richard Rohr, in a lecture given during the 2017 Gladdening Light Symposium in Winter Park, FL, January 26–29, 2017. For a close approximation in print, see https://cac.org/living-word-god-2018-01-17.
7.J. Hick and P. F. Knitter, eds., “The Jordan, the Tiber, and the Ganges: Three Kairological Moments of Christic Self-Consciousness,” in The Myth of Christian Uniqueness: Toward a Pluralistic Theology of Religions (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1987), 89–116.
CHAPTER 5
1.Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference, rev. ed. (London: Continuum, 2003), 60.
2.Barbara Barkley, “Understanding Christian Fundamentalism,” The Thoughtful Christian, September 12, 2007, http://www.thethoughtfulchristian.com/Products/TC0208/understanding-christian-fundamentalism.aspx.
CHAPTER 6
1.“Crown Him with Many Crowns,” lyrics by Matthew Bridges (1800–1894), The Hymnal 1982 (New York: Church Hymnal Corporation), 494.
2.Isa. 45:1–6. For more about these characters and others, see Jeffrey Salkin, Righteous Gentiles in the Hebrew Bible (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2008).
CHAPTER 7
1.Michael Lipka, “How Many People of Different Faiths Do You Know?” Pew Research Center, July 17, 2014, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/17/how-many-people-of-different-faiths-do-you-know/.
2.Kate Kellaway, “Claudia Rankine: Blackness in the White Imagination Has Nothing to Do with Black People,” The Guardian, December 27, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com /books/2015/dec/27/claudia-rankine-poet-citizen-american-lyric-feature.
3.Jonathan Sacks, Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence (New York: Schocken, 2015), 11.
4.Sacks, Not in God’s Name, 40–41.
5.Byron L. Sherwin, “Who Do You Say That I Am?” in Beatrice Bruteau, ed., Jesus Through Jewish Eyes (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2001), 39. For a more in-depth survey of the other views mentioned, see Gregory A. Barker, ed., Jesus in the World’s Faiths (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2005).
6.Linda K. Wertheimer, Faith Ed: Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance (Boston: Beacon, 2016), 39–70.
7.“Organization,” Al-Farooq Masjid of Atlanta, accessed August 15, 2016, http://alfarooqmasjid.org/about-us/organization/.
8.For details, see Carl W. Ernst, “From the Heart of the Qur’an Belt,” Religious Studies News, May 2003, accessed February 28, 2018, http://www.unc.edu/~cernst/rsnews.htm.
9.Ryan Broderick, “A Lot of People Are Very Upset That an Indian-American Woman Won the Miss America Pageant,” BuzzFeed News, September 16, 2013, https://www.buzzfeed .com/ryanhatesthis/a-lot-of-people-are-very-upset-that-an-indian-american-woman?utm_term=.emWlkEoVq#.geNm01B2M.
CHAPTER 8
1.Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds: A Personal Record (New York: Pocket Books, 1956), 56.
2.M. K. Gandhi, The Message of Jesus Christ, ed. Anand T. Hingorani (Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1986), 44.
3.“Matthew 5–7: The Sermon on the Mount and India,” by R. S. Sugirtharajah, in Daniel Patte, Global Bible Commentary (Nashville: Abingdon, 2004), 365.
4.Amy-Jill Levine, The Misunderstood Jew (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2006), 92–93.
5.Barbara Bradley Hagerty, “Surviving the Wasteland of Faith,” Christianity Today, November 23, 2016.
6.Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference, rev. ed. (London: Continuum, 2003), 8.
CHAPTER 9
1.“2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient—Maya Angelou,” video, The White House: President Barack Obama, February 16, 2011, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video /video/2011/02/16/2010-presidential-medal-freedom-recipient-maya-angelou/.
2.These theologians include Jürgen Moltmann, Sallie McFague, Hans Küng, Donald Gelpi, Elizabeth A. Johnson, Michael Lodahl, Peter Hodgson, and many, many others.
CHAPTER 10
1.Midrash ha-Gadol 11:3, as cited in W. Gunther Plaut, ed., The Torah: A Modern Commentary (New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1981), 85.
2.In Plaut, ed. The Torah, 85
3.Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference, rev. ed. (London: Continuum, 2003), 2.
CHAPTER 11
1.Paul C. Rosenblatt, “Grief in Small-Scale Societies,” in Colin Murray Parkes, Pittu Laungani, and Bill Young, eds., Death and Bereavement Across Cultures (London and New York: Routledge, 2015), 38.
2.Anne Tergesen, “To Age Well, Change How You Feel About Aging,” Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2015.
3.Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference, rev. ed. (London: Continuum, 2003), 60.
CHAPTER 12
1.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Th
e Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (New York: Harper & Row, 1974), 168.
EPILOGUE
1.See Wilfred Cantwell Smith, The Meaning and End of Religion, or, more recently, Patterns of Faith Around the World, with thanks to Eboo Patel for verbalizing this central truth.
2.Richard Rohr, “On the Edge of the Inside: The Prophetic Position,” from The Eight Core Principles of the Center for Action and Contemplation (out of print); for the eight core principles, see https://cac.org/about-cac/missionvision/.
3.David Brooks, “At the Edge of the Inside,” New York Times, June 24, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/opinion/at-the-edge-of-inside.html.
4.Brooks, “At the Edge of the Inside.”
5.John Philip Newell, The Rebirthing of God: Christianity’s Struggle for New Beginnings (Woodstock, VT: Skylight Paths, 2014), 45.
Recommended Reading
Albright, Madeleine. The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on God, America, and World Affairs. HarperPerennial, 2007.
Barker, Gregory A. Jesus in the World’s Faiths: Leading Thinkers from Five Religions Reflect on His Meaning. Orbis Books, 2008.
Barker, Gregory A. and Stephen E. Gregg. Jesus Beyond Christianity: The Classic Texts. Oxford, 2010.
The Dalai Lama. Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World’s Religions Can Come Together. Doubleday Religion, 2010.
Epstein, Greg M. Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe. William Morrow, 2010.
Griffiths, Bede. The Cosmic Revelation: The Hindu Way to God. Collins, 1983.
Gross, Rita M. Buddhists Talk about Jesus, Christians Talk about the Buddha. Continuum, 2003.
Hick, John, and Paul F. Knitter. The Myth of Christian Uniqueness: Toward a Pluralistic Theology of Religions. Orbis Books, 1987.
Knitter, Paul F. Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian. Oneworld, 2015.
Levine, Amy-Jill. The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus. HarperOne, 2007.
Mackenzie, Don, Ted Falcon, and Jamal Rahman. Getting to the Heart of Interfaith: The Eye-opening, Hope-filled Friendship of a Pastor, a Rabbi & an Imam. SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2012.
Magida, Arthur J., and Stuart M. Matlins. How to Be a Perfect Stranger: A Guide to Etiquette in Other People’s Religious Ceremonies. Jewish Lights Publishing, 1996.
Manseau, Peter. One Nation, Under Gods: A New American History. Back Bay Books, 2016.
McLaren, Brian D. Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed Cross the Road?: Christian Identity in a Multi-faith World. Hodder & Stoughton, 2013.
Mosher, Lucinda. Belonging. Seabury Books, 2005.
——— . Loss. Seabury Books, 2007.
——— . Praying. Seabury Books, 2006.
Neusner, Jacob, Baruch A. Levine, Bruce Chilton, and Vincent J. Cornell. Do Jews, Christians & Muslims Worship the Same God? Abingdon Press, 2012.
Newell, J. Philip. The Rebirthing of God: Christianity’s Struggle for New Beginnings. Skylight Paths, 2014.
Palmer, Martin. The Jesus Sutras: Rediscovering the Lost Scrolls of Taoist Christianity. Wellspring/Ballantine, 2001.
Patel, Eboo. Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, in the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. Beacon, 2011.
——— . Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America. Beacon Press http://pluralism.org/, 2013.
Pavlovitz, John. A Bigger Table: Building Messy, Authentic, and Hopeful Spiritual Community. Westminster John Knox, 2017.
Peace, Jennifer Howe., Or N. Rose, and Gregory Mobley. My Neighbor’s Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation. Orbis Books, 2014.
The Pluralism Project. http://pluralism.org.
Prothero, Stephen R. God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World—and Why Their Differences Matter. HarperOne, 2011.
Rohr, Richard. The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See. Crossroads Publishing, 2009.
Sacks, Jonathan. Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence. Schocken, 2017.
——— . The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations. Rev. ed. Continuum, 2003.
Salkin, Jeffrey K. Righteous Gentiles in the Hebrew Bible: Ancient Role Models for Sacred Relationships. Jewish Lights Publishing, 2008.
Smith, Huston. The World’s Religions. HarperOne, 2009.
Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. The Meaning and End of Religion. Fortress Press, 1996.
——— . Patterns of Faith around the World. Oneworld, 1998.
Thangaraj, M. Thomas. Relating to People of Other Religions: What Every Christian Needs to Know. Abingdon Press, 1997.
Volf, Miroslav. Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World. Yale, 2015.
Wertheimer, Linda K. Faith Ed.: Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance. Beacon Press, 2015.
Wormald, Benjamin. “Religious Landscape Study.” Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project. May 11, 2015; http://www .pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/.
Wuthnow, Robert. America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity. Princeton Univ. Press, 2011.
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BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR is the author of the New York Times bestsellers An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark, which was also named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Religion Books of 2014, as well as Leaving Church, which received an Author of the Year Award from the Georgia Writers Association. Taylor is an Episcopal priest and the emerita Butman Professor of Religion at Piedmont College. She lives on a working farm in rural northeast Georgia with her husband, Ed.
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