Resource
books (Suggestions
welcome) 10/2009
*Encountering God: A
Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras – Diana L. Eck
*Exclusion
and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and
Reconciliation
by Miroslav Volf
(Abingdon)
*How to be a Perfect
Stranger; the Etiquette Handbook, by Stuart Mtalins
and Arthur Magida.
*Interactive Faith:
The Essential Interreligious Community Building Handbook, edit by bud
Heckman
*Journey into Islam:
The Crisis of Globalization - Akbar S. Ahmed Brookings Institution
Press 2007
*New Religious
America; How a Christian Country has become the world's most religious
diverse
nation by Diana Eck.
*Relating to People
of Other Religions: What every Christian needs to Know
by M. Thomas Thangaraj
*The Concept of God
in Global Dialogue, editors – Werner G Jeanrond
&
Aasulv Lande,
*The World’s
Religions: The Great Wisdom Traditions - Huston Smith
A Calling of Shalom,
The Calling of Christians and Jews by a
Covenanting
God Philip A Cunningham, 2001 Paulist Press
A Chaplain’s
Companion Judith C. Joseph
A Dialogue of
Civilizations: Gulen’s Islamic ideals and
Humanistic
Discourse – B. Jill Carroll
A History of God:
The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam – Karen
Armstrong
Abraham; Bruce Feiler
Acts of Faith: The
Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
by Eboo Patel
All Kinds of
Beliefs, Emma Damon, Tango Books, 2000 Sadie Fields Productions
All
the
Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by
Stephen Kinzer, John Wiley & Sons,
Hoboken, NJ 2003
All…One, That All
May Be One, A Handbook for Ecumenical and Interfaith Worship, Monterey
Diocese,
Calif.
An Orbis
Series – Faith Meets Faith 2005
Between
Two Worlds Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam by Zainab Salbi
Christianity Look
East, Peter Feldmeier, Pulist
Press, 2006
Confessing Out Faith
together: A study and discussion Guide UM and ELCA online at
Crescent & Star:
Turkey Between Two Worlds - Stephen Kinzer 2001
Deep Religious
Pluralism, edited by David Ray Griffin, 2005, Westminster John Knox
Press
Deepening Faith Through
Interreligious Engagement, An Introductory Seminar
for Faith Communities Desiring to Explore Interreligious Engagement,
Maria Hornung, MMS, Interfaith Center of
Greater Philadelphia
Do We Worship the
Same God: Comparing the Bible and the Qur’an – George Dardess
Ecumenical
Dialogue, Angelo Maffeis 2005, Unitis
Books pub.
By Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minn.
Ed.-
Jack W. Lundin-Welcomed by the United
Religious
Initiative (URI) & Parliament of the World’s Religions
*Following Muhammad:
Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World by Carl Ernst.
From Debate to
Dialogue: Using the Understanding Process to Transform Our
Conversations
Deborah Flick
God and the Gift, An
Ecumenical Theology of Giving, Riso
Sarrinen, 2005 Unitis
Books
pub. By Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minn.
Heart of the Temple
by Joan Chittister
How the Children
Became Stars, Aaron Zerah , 2000 Sorin Books
Imperial Hubris: Why
the West is Losing the War on Terror by
Michael Scheuer anonymous
Islam, Faith and
History Mohmoud M. Ayoub
Islamic
Imperialism by Efraim Karsh (Yale
University Press). (distributed
by IRD)
Jerusalem: One City,
Three Faiths - Karen Armstrong
**Journey into Islam:
The Crisis of Globalization by Akbar Ahmed
Keepers of the
Earth, Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for
Children,
Michael J. Cadyto and Joseph Bruchac,
Fulcrum Publishing 1997
Middle Church, Rev.
Bob Edgar, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches
Muhammad: His Life
Based on the Earliest Sources – Martin Lings
No Other Name by
Paul F. Knitter
One With
God, Veli-Matti Karkkainen,
2004, Unitis Books
pub. By Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minn.
One World, Many
Voices, An Interfaith Song Book, 2002 by
Interfaith
Center at the Presidio, San Francisco, Ca.,
OSB, Murshid
Saadi Shakur
Chisti, and Rabbi Arthur Waskow,
Beacon Press
Our Religions: The
Seven World Religions Introduced
Edit Arvind
Sharma
Palestine, Peace Not
Apartheid, Jimmy Carter, Simon & Schuster
Progressive Muslims:
On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism – Edit Omid
Safi
Qur’an Liberation
& Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity Against Oppression – Farid
Esack
Shared Wisdom, Growing
Grassroots Interfaith Relationships , Paul
Chaffee,
Interfaith Center at the Presidio, San Francisco, CA. 2004
Speaking the Truth,
and Risks of Faith, by James Cone
The Dignity of
Difference: How To Avoid the Clash of
Civilizations –
Jonathan Sacks
The Ecumenical
Implementations of the Discussion of "The Global Nature of the U M
Church" GCCUIC
The Festival Year Calendar http://www.festivalshop.co.uk/
Excellent poster display chart
The Misunderstood Jew by Amy Jill Levine
The Rapture Exposed
by Barbara Rossing
The Review of Faith and International
Affairs
- (Council on Faith and International Affairs )
Islam
and Pluralism - and - A Common Word
The Tent of Abraham,
Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims, Joan
Chittister,
The Thin Book of
Appreciative Inquiry - Sue Annis Hammond
*Three Cups of Tea:
One Man's Mission to Promote Peace - Greg Mortenson
*Turkish Islam and
the Secular State: The Gulen Movement –
Edit M. Hakan Yavuz
& John Esposito
Turning to One
Another, Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future - Margaret
Wheatley
*Western Muslims and
the Future of Islam – by Tariq Ramadan
What do Other Faiths
Believe: A study of world Religions – Paul Stroble
What Went Wrong?
Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response – Bernard Lewis
When Faiths Collide - Martin
Marty
Where God Was Born:
A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion - Bruce Feiler
**Who Speaks For
Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
by John L.
Esposito ,Dalia Mogahed Gallup Press 2008
.
Also,
read original texts of all faiths