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A SOURCEBOOK FOR EARTH'S COMMUNITY OF RELIGIONS

A SourceBook for Earth's Community of Religions

Endorsements and Ordering
Foreword
Introduction to the Revised Edition

PART ONE
Who Are We?

CHAPTER 1
Making the Connections
The Global CoNexus
Foreword: Preparing for the Next Millennium
by Dr. Robert Muller
The Age of Interspiritual Community
by Brother Wayne Teasdale

CHAPTER 2
African Traditional Religions
Prayers and Religious Expressions
Zulu Traditional Religion
An Introduction to African Traditional Religions

CHAPTER 3
Baha'i
The Baha'i Faith - A Portrait

CHAPTER 4
Buddhism
Resources on Buddhism
A Statement by the Dalai Lama
Zen
Texts and Reflections
Buddhist Experience in North America
Buddhism: A Portrait

CHAPTER 5
Christianity
The Unitarian Universalist Church
A Call for Evangelical Renewal
Native American / Christian Worship
African American Christianity
Scriptures
Knowing God Through Creation
Christianity in the World Today
The Christian Family Tree
Christianity: Origins and Beliefs

CHAPTER 6
Confucianism
Confucianism: A Portrait

CHAPTER 7
First Peoples and Native Traditions
A Teaching from Tecumseh
Plastic Medicine Men
Native American Spirituality
First Peoples and Native Traditions

CHAPTER 8
Hinduism
Vedana, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda
Wisdom from the Hindu Tradition
Hinduism: A Portrait

CHAPTER 9
Humanism

CHAPTER 10
Islam
Resources
Golden Words of a Sufi Sheik
Islam in North America
Islam in the World Today
Islam: A Portrait

CHAPTER 11
Jainism
Gandhi
Ahimsa
Jain Prayers and Songs
Jainism: A Portrait

CHAPTER 12
Judaism
A Jewish Response to the Environmental Crisis
Judaism: A Portrait
The Worth of Wisdom

CHAPTER 13
Shinto
Shinto Texts with Commentary
Shinto

CHAPTER 15
Spiritual, Esoteric, and Evolutionary Philosophies
A Portrait of Theosophy
The Evolutionary Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
Anthroposophy
Toward a More Human Future
The Arcane School
Conscious Evolution - A Meta-Religion for the 21st Century
The Emergence of Maitreya

CHAPTER 16
Taoism
Taoism - A Portrait

CHAPTER 17
The Unification Church

CHAPTER 18
Wicca and Nature Spirituality
A Guide to Nature Spirituality Terms
A Portrait of Wicca

CHAPTER 19
Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism

PART TWO
Becoming a Community of Religions

CHAPTER 20
Joining the Sacred Community
Poems by Children
Reflections on Community
The Cosmology of Religions
Sacred Community at the Dawn of the Second Axial Age

CHAPTER 21
Legacies of the Parliaments - 1893 and 1993
The Vision Beckons
Responses to the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions

CHAPTER 22
The 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions
Critical Issues
Statements from Co-Sponsors
Key Staff and Executive Summary

CHAPTER 25
Towards Spiritual Concord
Elements of a Universal Spirituality
Guidelines for Interreligious Understanding

CHAPTER 26
Interfaith Dialogue
The Rio de Janeiro Interfaith Network
The Dialogue Decalogue
A Grassroots Model
A Study Guide for Interreligious Understanding and Cooperation

CHAPTER 27
Facing Intolerance, Violence, and other Evils
Lutherans and Judaism - A New Possibility
Peace Teams - Their Time has Come
Nonviolent Response to Violence

PART THREE
Beyond Borders

PART FOUR
Choosing Our Future

PART FIVE
Resource Guides

CHAPTER 44
A Global Brain
A Guide to Selected Electronic and Internet Resources
Interfaith Networking on the Information Superhighway

EPILOGUE
Prayers, Scriptures and Reflections - From many Traditions
Toward a Global Spirituality
Moving Through the CoNexus
Concerning Acts of Creation

Concerning Acts of Creation


Zoroastrianism Reflections on Community

Poems by Children

IN A DREAM I GET A PEEK

into the future. I look in terror as I see the destruction.

The earth looks like it's been burnt to a crisp

with hardly any vegetation left to see. And there's no sign

of life whatsoever, and no atmosphere at all.

With a large explosion, it is the end of the world

as a line of fire goes blazing across the whole earth.

-- JEFF MARCHAND, 8th grade

LAST NIGHT A FROG SPIRIT SPOKE TO ME

Last night a frog spirit spoke to me. He did not speak through words but through thoughts. Nor did I speak. He spoke only good -- no bad, for his soul would not let it. Nor was he the leader of frogs he was a messenger.

He spoke of the future and of the past but none of the present for he was a foreseer.

He spoke of many dreams only a few of which could or would come true.

--JOSH CLAYTON, 7th grade

THE MYSTERIOUS FLOWER

In a dream a bat appeared in front of me and told me that a single rose is a real mysterious, dark, loving flower, and that we should teach each other how to love one another like a bushel of roses.

--ANDREA SWANSON, 6th grade

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