Order from Theosophical University Press
SourceBook of the World's Religions
edited by Joel Beversluis
"This SourceBook is a major resource for continuing what happened so fruitfully at the Parliament — to deepen our understanding of each other and to encourage dialogue and cooperation." — Dr. David Ramage, Chair, Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
The SourceBook's wide-ranging contents offer us an opportunity to learn about others and to reflect on our own commitments. More that 300 articles, essays, and quotations are accompanied by nearly 400 resource listings. While the contributors are of differing religious beliefs and cultures, their insights come to us in these pages with inspiring harmony and ethical power.
An Overview of the Contents:
- Part 1: Who Are We? Portraits and texts of religions, indigenous beliefs, spiritual evolution, and humanism
- Part 2: Becoming Community. Legacies of the parliaments; toward a global ethic; a United Religions? interfaith dialogue, facing violence and other evils
- Part 3: Beyond Borders. Religions and spiritual traditions and: world order, UN 50, environment, human rights, hunger, population, and a culture of peace
- Part 4: Choosing Our Future. Listening to voices of children, women, scientists, and indigenous and dispossessed peoples; what shall we do?
- Part 5: Resource Guides. Organizations; print, audio and video; religious education; a global brain
- 3rd Edition
- 8 x 9 7/8 454 pages
- $24.95 softcover