Gandhi's Hope : Learning from Other Religions As a Path to Peace

by McDaniel, Jay Byrd

• ISBN13: 9781570755903
• ISBN10: 1570755906
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-30
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

A book for people who want to learn about and from many religions to experience personal peace and find that Gandhi's hope for a different kind of future may be possible.

Author Biography

Jay McDaniel teaches at Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(16)
1. Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
Process Theology and the World Religions	17	(38)
The Five Challenges Faced by the World's Religions	21	(3)
When Religion Meets Science	24	(2)
On Being Spiritual but Not Religious	26	(5)
Whitehead and the World Religions	31	(8)
Christianity and the Call to Listen	39	(7)
The Whole World Is a Monastery	46	(4)
Twelve Planks on the Whiteheadian Bridge	50	(5)
2. A Walk in Beauty
A Process Approach to Peace between Religions	55	(29)
The State of the World	56	(5)
Three Aims in Life	61	(4)
A Walk in Beauty	65	(4)
The Five Challenges Revisited	69	(3)
The Case against Religion	72	(4)
Religions as Conduits for Original Sin	76	(2)
Peace as Beauty-in-the-Making	78	(6)
3. God's Fondness for Beetles
A Process Approach to God, Creativity, and the Sacred	84	(32)
Four Faces of the Sacred	87	(5)
One-Embracing-Many	92	(1)
One-Within-Many	93	(3)
One-Between-Many	96	(1)
The Many Truths of the World's Religions	97	(4)
Two Kinds of Learning: Mind-to-Body and Body-to-Mind	101	(3)
Many Salvations	104	(2)
A Continuously Creative Universe: Insights from Confucianism	106	(6)
Delight in Diversity	112
Conclusion
Gandhi and Whitehead	116	(11)
Notes	127	(3)
Index	130