Description
Book SynopsisProvides a reassessment of the problems, values, and goals of contemporary religion in the United States. This book is a useful reading for scholars of religion, sociology, and American studies, as well as anyone who is concerned with the purported impossibility of religious pluralism.
Trade Review"The book offers an expanding mosaic of arenas in which interfaith contacts are now occurring, and their impact on American life--an excellent read." -- Wade Clark Roof * University of California at Santa Barbara *
"While much has been written about the theory and method of interreligious dialogue, McCarthy offers something different: a picture, both encouraging and sobering, of what's really going on as people from different religious communities together and work together." -- Paul F. Knitter * Paul Tillich Chair of Theology World Religions, and Culture, Union Theological Seminary *
"The book offers an expanding mosaic of arenas in which interfaith contacts are now occurring, and their impact on American life--an excellent read." -- Wade Clark Roof * University of California at Santa Barbara *
"While much has been written about the theory and method of interreligious dialogue, McCarthy offers something different: a picture, both encouraging and sobering, of what's really going on as people from different religious communities together and work together." -- Paul F. Knitter * Paul Tillich Chair of Theology World Religions, and Culture, Union Theological Seminary *
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Theories of Religious Difference
2 Strange Bedfellows
3 When the Other is Neighbor
4 Intimate Others
5 Meeting the Other in Cyberspace
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
