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Faith in the Neighborhood
Understanding America’s Religious Diversity
By: Lucinda Mosher
Volume One Belonging ISBN 1-59627-010-0
Volume Two Praying ISBN 1-59627-016-0
Faith in the Neighborhood is a new series which, by interweaving interviews and personal stories with lessons in vocabulary and concepts, explores questions raised by the religious diversity of America’s neighborhoods - where Christians often live side by side with adherents of Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Bahá’í, Zoroastrianism, Shinto, and Afro-Caribbean, Native-American, and traditional Chinese religions.
Belonging explores how these religions conceive of community, and how they acknowledge life’s stages: welcoming babies, rites of passage for adolescents, initiation, and conversion.
Praying: Rituals of Faith focuses on public, family, and personal worship - how people of various religions take part in rituals, celebrate festivals and holidays, go on pilgrimage, and say their prayers.
“Mosher has written a remarkable, accessible, and informed book
that prepares us for the religious diversity of our neighborhoods. A must
read…” Ian Markham, Dean, Hartford Seminary
“The great thing about these books is that they show us the diversity
of opinion and practice within each faith community.” Thomas W. Goodhue,
Executive Director, Long Island Council of Churches
To order, go to http://www.churchpublishing.org, or call 1-800-242-1918
Lucinda Mosher holds a Th.D. from the General Theological Seminary (NYC). A consultant and educator on interreligious matters, she chairs the Diocese of New York Episcopal-Muslim Relations Committee, and teaches the annual Worldviews Seminar at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Dr. Lucinda Mosher is available for lectures and workshops. Contact
her at lucindamosher@earthlink.net
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