I was heartened to read the article on the summit between leaders of Islam and Buddhism (April 16). Our world situation is so divided that we need dialogue that reminds us that we are connected not ...

"In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to ...

William Dalrymple’s new book about people of faith in modern India fulfills the premise that a master artist can make something very difficult look easy. The transparent prose in “Nine Lives: In ...

Kazemi, an academic fellow to the Jordanian Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, authors this book, which compares Islamic values and practices with the teachings of the Buddha and ...

Cambodia hosted a summit on Islam and Buddhism, the first such inter-religious program held in the Buddhist-majority nation to promote ethnic and religious harmony. The day-long summit, organized by ...

Entitled ‘Reconciliation through understanding the Dharma’, it recounts the life and teachings of the prophet Muhammad. There are no comprehensive books on Islam in Sinhala. Rasmi Abdurrahman, ...

Fasting is the process of not eating or drinking for an extended period. While possibly looked at as starving oneself, fasting provides many spiritual, physical and mental benefits when done for the ...

We all know that Christianity is a missionary religion. The Old Testament already contains passages that invite Jews to share their faith with other peoples. Then the New Testament story of Jesus ends ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article uses an important Sri Lankan Supreme Court case concerning religious sound as a starting point for thinking about the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — While attention is focused on the explosive growth of Christianity in China, a Purdue University religious studies expert says that the popularity and trends of other religions ...

IT is a sign of the times that a “Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge” should undertake a series of works on “non-Christian religious systems.” Nor is it a less striking characteristic of our ...

Pew Research Center recently conducted a survey on religion among Asian Americans, the largest nationally representative survey of its kind to date. In addition, to look more deeply into how Asian ...