Böcker av Lucinda Allen Mosher

Second in a series of books that offer Christians a new way of understanding what it means to live and worship among America's many faiths, and introduces them to the religions that make up the American neighborhood.

Lucinda Mosher explores the vocabulary of numerous religious communities and the diverse theologies that hold them together. She looks at how these religions handle life's stages - welcoming rites for babies, rites of passage for adolescents, adult conversion - and searches out the factors that violate or destroy community.

Tells the story of The Episcopal Church's development of an official rationale for its ongoing engagement with religious diversity. This book explains what one church teaches about how religious difference may be interpreted in Christian terms. It is suitable for courses in interreligious dialogue, Christian ethics, and American religious history.