Encountering God A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras

Name: Encountering God A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras
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ISBN: 9780807073018

ISBN-10: 0807073016

ISBN-13: 9780807073018

Edition: 2nd 2003

Authors: Diana L. Eck

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Diana Ecks work has become increasingly important in our ever-changing communities, as people of different faiths must negotiate how to live together peacefully. In Encountering God, Eck shows why dialogue with people of other faiths is crucial in todays interdependent world-globally, nationally, and even locally. She reveals how her own encounters with other religions have shaped and enlarged her Christian faith toward a bold new Christian pluralism. "In a splendid exposition of non-Christian approaches to God, Eck encourages an increased religious literacy that she suggests will contribute richness and diversity to our national identity." -Publishers Weekly Diana L. Eck is professor of…

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List price: $20.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 4/15/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Diana L. Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, and director of The Pluralism Project at Harvard University, is the editor of On Common Ground: World Religions in America, a multimedia CD-ROM (Columbia).



Preface 2003


Preface 1993



Bozeman to Banaras: Questions from the Passage to India



Frontiers of Encounter: The Meeting of East and West in America since the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions



The Names of God: The Meaning of God's Manyness



The Faces of God: Discovering the Incarnation in India



The Breath of God: The Fire and Freedom of the Spirit



Attention to God: The Practice of Prayer and Meditation



"Is Our God Listening?": Exclusivism, Inclusivism, and Pluralism



The Imagined Community: Spiritual Interdependence and a Wider Sense of "We"


Notes


Selected Readings


Index