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Tag: transformation

Careful Forgiveness: Atoning with Life in the New Year

Careful Forgiveness: Atoning with Life in the New Year

Posted on October 12, 2016October 12, 2016 by Jenn Lindsay
“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.” Pablo Neruda Yom Kippur is the Jewish day of atonement between humanity and the divine. Jewish tradition dictates that atonement between h... Read More
Ideas for Research On Interfaith Couples and Families

Ideas for Research On Interfaith Couples and Families

Posted on September 21, 2015September 20, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
I conducted anthropological research on interfaith couples and marriages in Indonesia in 2010, and have continued to investigate interfaith dialogue practices, religious diversity management and inter... Read More
“Right View” and Interfaith Dialogue

“Right View” and Interfaith Dialogue

Posted on September 3, 2015September 7, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
One “fold” on the Buddhist Noble Eightfold Path toward enlightenment is Right View. “Right view” is the skill of dissolving interpretations in favor of drawing closer to the reality of the wor... Read More
“Stand together yet not too near together”: How Interfaith Dialogue Teaches Participants to Value Diversity

“Stand together yet not too near together”: How Interfaith Dialogue Teaches Participants to Value Diversity

Posted on August 31, 2015May 31, 2016 by Jenn Lindsay
“Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart... Read More
The Mechanics of Personal Transformation via Interfaith Dialogue

The Mechanics of Personal Transformation via Interfaith Dialogue

Posted on August 25, 2015August 26, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
My research on interfaith dialogue is driven by questions about people’s individual capacities for transformation and cohabitation with other humans. In previous articles (here and here) I demonstra... Read More
Humanism, Race, and Why NonHumanists Should Care

Humanism, Race, and Why NonHumanists Should Care

Posted on August 24, 2015August 23, 2015 by Wendy Webber
I am a white, female, humanist writing today about what I have seen and heard about the racial climate in humanism (and its relatives: atheism, skepticism, freethought, etc.). “Racial climate” all... Read More
What’s “Religious” About Interreligious Dialogue?

What’s “Religious” About Interreligious Dialogue?

Posted on August 18, 2015September 2, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
Anyone who has embarked upon the study of religion immediately runs into a debate of the meaning of the very word religion. Definitions abound and debates rage about whether a general definition of re... Read More
The Difference Between Religious Diversity and Religious Pluralism

The Difference Between Religious Diversity and Religious Pluralism

Posted on August 5, 2015August 4, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
In a previous article I explored how “choice and safety” are the key ingredients in converting de facto religious diversity into religious pluralism, an environment more conducive to transformativ... Read More
What Exactly is "Mutual Recognition"?

What Exactly is “Mutual Recognition”?

Posted on July 31, 2015August 5, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
The construct of “mutual recognition” is circulated frequently in the interfaith society: nearly every organization I approach as an ethnographic researcher names it as a primary goal. But... Read More
“50 Years Since Nostra Aetate" with The International Council of Christians and Jews

“50 Years Since Nostra Aetate” with The International Council of Christians and Jews

Posted on July 24, 2015July 24, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
“Jews are non-Christian in a way that other religions are not.” Meredeth Banki, speaker at the International Council of Christians and Jews, said this when speaking about her experience as part of... Read More
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