A Parliament of Souls: In Search of Global Spirituality: Interviews with 28 Spiritual Leaders from Around the World

Kirjeldus

With over five thousand languages and dialects spoken in the world, 250 million indigenous peoples, and nearly two hundred countries culturally intermixing like never before, we are being offered unprecedented opportunities for a human community strengthened by dialogue and tolerance. Explore the most insistent questions facing our diverse and shrinking world in this provocative collection of candid, insightful interviews with 28 of the world's leading spiritual thinkers. In this eye-opening companion to the public television series filmed during the World Parliament of Religions, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, theologian Dr. Hans Küng, Muslim feminist Dr. Azizah al Hibri, politician turned prison minister Charles Colson, living Hindu saint Swami Chidananda, and other religious thinkers speak out about their own personal journeys and about the universal dilemmas: Is there a universal code of human ethics? What roles do our traditions play when hatred wears the mask of religion? What kind of environment will we bequeath to our children? Can religion combat racial and ethnic bigotry? How does personal spirituality inform daily life? If there is a God, why is there evil in the world? What are our human responsibilities to ensure ethical behavior and the survival of the natural world, and of humanity? How do we best serve the world? Editors Michael Tobias, Jane Morrison, and Bettina Gray bring together the perspectives of the world's greatest traditions in a common call for peace and reflection. A striking examination of our human spirit as it is and as it aspires to be, this book will challenge and inspire all who seek their own spiritual direction