With the Best of Intentions: Interreligious Missteps and Mistakes - by Lucinda Mosher & Elinor J Pierce & Or N Rose (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

With any new human endeavor, errors and failures are inevitable. In With the Best of Intentions more than three dozen scholars and practitioners of many faiths explore cases of missteps and outright failures of interfaith encounters. Each case also provides critical discussion of what went wrong, and why.

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RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict

RELIGION / Comparative Religion

RELIGION / Ethics

US$35.00

Lucinda Mosher, Elinor J. Pierce, Or N. Rose (eds.)

WITH THE BEST OF INTENTIONS

Interreligious Missteps and Mistakes

Preface by Francis X. Clooney

Afterword by Mahan Mirza

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Review Quotes

"If we learn by mistakes, this book teaches us the basics about interreligious relationships."--Pim Valkenberg, The Catholic University of America

"A uniquely significant collection as America fine-tunes its interreligious ethos for greater harmony! The diverse voices and multiple positionalities here illuminate for us the transformative power of reflection on missteps and mistakes that is grounded in humility in the march toward that ideal!" --Neelima Shukla-Bhatt, Wellesley College

"Brilliant contribution to the field, which underscores the courage we need for constructive dialogue and collaborative action."--Rabbi Joshua Stanton, director of leadership and formation at CLAL--The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership

"Presents readers with illuminating examples of when practice does not match theory. It should be required reading for scholars, educators, administrators, and community organizers engaging religiously diverse contexts, as well as leaders working toward multireligious coalition building."--Axel M. Oaks Takacs, editor-in-chief, Journal of Interreligious Studies

About the Author

Lucinda Mosher is faculty associate in chaplaincy and interreligious studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. She is also co-director of HIU's Master of Arts in chaplaincy program, senior scholar for executive and professional education, and an affiliate of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. Dr. Mosher has authored, edited, and coedited many books including Deep Understanding for Divisive Times.

Elinor (Ellie) Pierce is the research director for the Pluralism Project at Harvard University and author of Pluralism in Practice: Case Studies of Leadership in a Religiously Diverse America.

Or N. Rose is founding director of the Betty Ann Greenbaum Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership of Hebrew College. Rabbi Rose has taught for the Bronfman Youth Fellowships, The Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Me'ah, and in many other academic, religious, and civic contexts throughout North America and Israel. He is coeditor of the award-winning anthology, My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation (Orbis).