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In the Company of Friends: Exploring Faith and Understanding with Buddhists and Christians
Contributor(s): Carter, John Ross (Author)

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 ISBN: 1438442807     ISBN-13: 9781438442808
Publisher: State University of New York Press
OUR PRICE: $35.10  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Buddhism - Theravada
Dewey: 261.243
LCCN: 2011033669
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (1.05 lbs) 348 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Buddhist
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
Winner of the 2014 Frederick J. Streng Award presented by the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies

In 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.
 
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