Understanding Each Other After 9-11: What Everyone Should Know about the Religions of the World - Hardcover
We all come from one source and share one destiny, yet from our commonality emanates a vast array of cultures, civilizations, and beliefs. Nonetheless, we are more alike than different, and it has been a triumph of humanity that our sense of otherness is slowly dwindling. The tensions we've experienced since 9-11 arise from a lack of basic knowledge of the world s major religions. This survey explores our diversity of faiths in hopes of helping us find our way to greater unity. Understanding other religions expands our sense of global community, allowing us to join together to face our collective future. Religion may well kindle conflict, but it can also help diminish our sense of difference, enable us to live in harmony, and enrich our personal experience by allowing us to touch the experience of the billions of people of different faiths with whom we share our planet.
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KIRK HERIOT was trained as a medical researcher and earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. A practicing pathologist, Dr. Heriot holds a clinical assistant professorship in pathology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.
Long fascinated with the history of ideas and how they have changed the world, Kirk Heriot believes that this area has not been given the focus it merits. Great people have surely added much to the world, he says, but I believe that history is shaped more by our collective ideas than by a few individuals, and the great ideas in the sciences, the major religions, and the arts should be receiving more attention.
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Long fascinated with the history of ideas and how they have changed the world, Kirk Heriot believes that this area has not been given the focus it merits. Great people have surely added much to the world, he says, but I believe that history is shaped more by our collective ideas than by a few individuals, and the great ideas in the sciences, the major religions, and the arts should be receiving more attention.
Understanding Each Other After 9-11 contains a wealth of information about the origins, beliefs, and practices of the world s most significant religions. Dr. Heriot has given us new depth in our understanding of the important principles that religions share. Anyone interested in learning more about the world s religions will want to read this valuable new resource. --C. David Lundberg, author of Unifying Truths of the World s Religions: Practical Principles for Living and Loving in Peace
Understanding Each Other After 9-11 should be read and discussed vigorously by all who want to do what is right in the world but find themselves fearful of, and alarmed by, those whose beliefs are differently placed around the great circle of religious tradition. An important book for patriots who long for a future in which everyone thinks spiritually and acts accordingly! --Reverend Wanda Windsor, United Methodist Minister
A delightful invitation to augment our knowledge of the world s major religions. Each chapter traces the origin, historical highlights, and essential features of one faith. Kirk Heriot s research and elucidative skills bring these religions into sharp focus. Written in clear, compelling language, Understanding Each Other After 9-11 is must reading for anyone who seeks a better understanding of religion. --Ruth Hoppin, author of Priscilla s Letter: Finding the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews
Hoping to dispel the sense of otherness so prevalent in our world, Dr. Kirk Heriot discusses the world s array of faiths and how our lack of mutual understanding leads to conflict in the dialog between peoples and nations. Understanding Each Other After 9-11 is a strong pick for world culture collections and international issues collections. --The Midwest Book Review
A delightful invitation to augment our knowledge of the world s major religions. Each chapter traces the origin, historical highlights, and essential features of one faith. Kirk Heriot s research and elucidative skills bring these religions into sharp focus. Written in clear, compelling language, Understanding Each Other After 9-11 is must reading for anyone who seeks a better understanding of religion. --Ruth Hoppin, author of Priscilla s Letter: Finding the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews
Understanding Each Other After 9-11 should be read and discussed vigorously by all who want to do what is right in the world but find themselves fearful of, and alarmed by, those whose beliefs are differently placed around the great circle of religious tradition. An important book for patriots who long for a future in which everyone thinks spiritually and acts accordingly! --Reverend Wanda Windsor, United Methodist Minister
A delightful invitation to augment our knowledge of the world s major religions. Each chapter traces the origin, historical highlights, and essential features of one faith. Kirk Heriot s research and elucidative skills bring these religions into sharp focus. Written in clear, compelling language, Understanding Each Other After 9-11 is must reading for anyone who seeks a better understanding of religion. --Ruth Hoppin, author of Priscilla s Letter: Finding the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews
Hoping to dispel the sense of otherness so prevalent in our world, Dr. Kirk Heriot discusses the world s array of faiths and how our lack of mutual understanding leads to conflict in the dialog between peoples and nations. Understanding Each Other After 9-11 is a strong pick for world culture collections and international issues collections. --The Midwest Book Review
A delightful invitation to augment our knowledge of the world s major religions. Each chapter traces the origin, historical highlights, and essential features of one faith. Kirk Heriot s research and elucidative skills bring these religions into sharp focus. Written in clear, compelling language, Understanding Each Other After 9-11 is must reading for anyone who seeks a better understanding of religion. --Ruth Hoppin, author of Priscilla s Letter: Finding the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews
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- PublisherLost Coast Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1882897986
- ISBN 13 9781882897988
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages299
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