With the best of intentions : interreligious missteps and mistakes / edited by Lucinda Mosher, Elinor J. Pierce, and Or N. Rose.

Other author Mosher, Lucinda, editor.
Other author Pierce, Elinor J. editor.
Other author Rose, Or N., editor.
Format Book
PublicationMaryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, [2023]
Descriptionxvii, 220 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Sweating the Small Stuff : When Minor Missteps Have Major Impact / Lexi Gewertz, Kathryn Lohre -- What's in a Name? On Acknowledging the Individual before Us / David D. Grafton -- Deflecting Myself : A Failure of Leadership / Hans Gustafson -- Always Ask : Reflections on the Boundaries Religions Set / Aida Mansoor -- A Sikh and a Jew at the Airport : Lessons on Handling Misinterpretations / Or N. Rose -- The Tour : Lessons from an Interfaith Itinerary / Marcia Moret Sietstra -- Discerning a Dual Identity : A Case of Tightrope-Walking / Jon M. Sweeney -- The Power of Prayer (to Make Things Awkward) : On Learning Interreligious Leadership / Jack Gordon -- Relics in the Chapel : On Dangers Inherent in Experiential Learning / Soren M. Hessler -- Rude Awakenings : A White Buddhist Reflects on Religious and Racial Equity / Wakoh Shannon Hickey -- An Acorn Is Not a Tree : Avoiding Assumptions in Faith-based Coalitions / Rachel S. Mikva -- Not in the Name of Jesus : On Being True to Ourselves / Hussein Rashid -- Interreligious Origin Stories : To Begin, and to Begin Again / Heather Miller Rubens -- How Did You Wake Up? Missteps on the Journey toward an Ethos of Honesty, Curiosity, and Sensitivity / Daniel Berman -- The Problem with What I Said Next : A Question of Intrafaith Solidarity / Nancy Fuchs Kreimer -- When the Head Gets in the Way of the Heart : An Interreligious Conversation that Went Wrong / Jeffery D. Long -- What Did He Just Say? The Importance of Knowing Why We're Here / Nisa Muhammad -- Radical Interdependence : Making Meaning through Difference / Anthony Cruz Pantojas -- Why Did I Not? Reflections on a Challenge to Celebrating Diwali / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh -- Ashes on the Forehead : Appreciation as an Approach to Religious Difference / Preeta M. Banerjee -- Adaptive Facilitation : A Requirement for Interfaith Discussions of Israel/Palestine / Yehezkel Landau -- Bach and the Indelible Stain : When a Cultural Project Exacerbates Old Tensions / Christopher M. Leighton -- Toward Strengthening the Civic : Interfaith Work in an Era of Competing Concepts of Justice / Eboo Patel -- Breaking Bread : A Breach of Intra-Religious Boundaries / Jennifer Howe Peace -- Recalling the Boston University Confucian Association : Bittersweet Stories, Lessons Learned / Bin Song -- Coexistence Wasn't Good Enough : Learning from Blunders in Interfaith Spaces / Jaxon Washburn -- An Iyánifá's Missteps in the Land from Where Day Dawns : The Invisibility of First Nations, the Hypervisibility of Blackness, and the Need for Interreligious Justice / M. Ajisebo McElwaine Abimbola -- Cases of Covering and Uncovering : At the Border of Interreligious Missteps and Racism / Bilal Ansari -- By What Authority? A Spiritual Caregiver-in-Training and the Problem of Power / Danielle J. Buhuro -- Testing Perceptions : Interreligious Engagement with Gen Z / Maggie Goldberger -- Listening to the Buddhists in Our Backyard : Recentering the Marginalized, Welcoming the Unknown / Chenxing Han, Andrew Housiaux -- Pathways for Leadership : Uplifting Women's Voices and Challenging Male Misconduct / Cassandra Lawrence, Wendy Goldberg -- Curricular Conundrums : Best Intentions, Diversity-Equity-Inclusion, and the Classroom / Vrajvihari Sharan -- Antisemitism and Israel : Tales from the Interreligious Dialogical Mine Field / C. Denise Yarbrough.
Abstract "Mistakes, missteps, and outright failures of the interreligious encounter are explored through personal essays"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: With the best of intentions Maryknoll, New York : Orbis, [2023] 9798888660041
LCCN 2023012210
ISBN9781626985452
ISBN1626985456 trade paperback
ISBNelectronic publication

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