In the Company of Friends

Exploring Faith and Understanding with Buddhists and Christians

von John Ross Carter

314 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Buddhist-Christian reflection that uses friendship as a model for interreligious understanding.Winner of the 2014 Frederick J. Streng Award presented by the Society for Buddhist-Christian StudiesIn this work of Buddhist-Christian reflection, John Ross Carter explores two basic aspects of human religiousness: faith and the activity of understanding. Carter's perspective is unique, putting people and their experiences at the center of inquiry into religiousness. His model and method grows out of friendship, challenging the so-called objective approach to the study of religion that privileges patterns, concepts, and abstraction.Carter considers the traditions he knows best, the Protestant Christianity he was born into and the Theravāda and Jōdo Shinshū (Pure Land) traditions of the Sri Lankan and Japanese friends among whom he has lived, studied, and worked. His rich, wide-ranging accounts of religious experience include discussions of transcendence, reason, saṃvega, shinjin, the inconceivable, and whether lives oriented toward faith will survive in a global context with increased pressures for individualism and secularism. Ultimately, Carter proposes that the endeavor of interreligious understanding is itself a religious quest.

• Reihe: SUNY Press
• ISBN: 9781438442808
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.07.2013
• Größe: 229 x 153 mm
• Verlag: State University of New York Press