InterActive Faith Resources

 Radio Shows and Podcasts

Several shows on the public airwaves and/or via podcast regularly address interfaith concerns:

 Recommended Books

A New Religious America: How a “Christian Country” Has Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation by Diana L. Eck (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2001)

A World Religions Reader, 2nd ed. by Ian S. Markham (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000)

Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation by Eboo Patel (Boston: Beacon Press, 2007)

America: Religions and Religion by Catherine L. Albanese (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2007)

Atlas of Religious Change in America, 1952–1990 edited by Peter L. Halvorson and William M. Newman (Glenmary, AL: Glenmary Research Center, 1994)

Building the Interfaith Youth Movement: Beyond Dialogue to Action edited by Eboo Patel and Patrice Brodeur (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)

Christians and World Religions: Paths to Dialogue by Hans KĂĽng (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993)

Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism edited by Thomas Banchoff (New York: Oxford, 2007)

Encountering Religion: An Introduction to the Religions of the World edited by Ian S. Markham and Tinu Ruparell (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001)

Encyclopedia of American Religions, 7th ed. by J. Gordon Melton (Detroit: Gale Group, 2007)

Faith in the Neighborhood: Understanding America’s Religious Diversity by Lucinda Mosher (New York: Seabury)

Handbook of Denominations in the United States, 12th ed. edited by Frank S. Mead, Samuel S. Hill, and Craig D. Atwood (Nashville: Abingdon, 2005)

How to Be a Perfect Stranger: The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook, 4th ed. edited by Stuart M. Matlins and Arthur J. Magida (Woodstock, VT: SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2006)

Inside World Religions: An Illustrated Guide by Kevin O’Donnell (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007)

Interfaith Dialogue: A Guide for Muslims by Muhammed Shafiq and Mohammed Abu-Nimer (Herndon, VA: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2007)

Interfaith Encounters in America by Kate McCarthy (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, 2007)

Introducing Theologies of Religions by Paul F. Knitter (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2002)

Living Religions, 7th ed. by Mary Pat Fisher (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007)

Mapping Dialogue: A Research Project Profiling Dialogue Tools and Processes for Social Change, Version 2.0. by Marianne Bojer, Marianne Knuth, and Collen Magner (Johannesburg, South Africa: Pioneers of Change Associates, 2006) (Available for free at www.pioneersofchange.net).

Multifaith Information Manual: An Authoritative Guide to Religious Rights and Accommodations, 4th ed by Ontario Multifaith Council on Spiritual and Religious Care (Toronto: OMCSRC, 2006)

New Religions: A Guide—New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities edited by Christopher Partridge (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)

No Other Name? A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions by Paul F. Knitter (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1985)

One World, Many Voices: An Interfaith Songbook edited by Jack W. Lundin (San Francisco: Interfaith Center at the Presidio, 2002)

Our Religions edited by Arvind Sharma (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993)

Relating to People of Other Religions: What Every Christian Needs to Know by M. Thomas Thangaraj (Nashville: Abingdon, 1997)

Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States 2000 edited by Dale E. Jones (Glenmary, AL: Glenmary Research Center, 2002)

Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know—and Doesn’t by Stephen Prothero (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007)

Sacred Spaces: 2004 Interfaith Sacred Space Design Competition edited by Donald H. Frew (San Francisco: Interfaith Center at the Presidio, 2004)

Sourcebook of the World’s Religions: An Interfaith Guide to Religion and Spirituality edited by Joel D. Beversluis (Novato, CA: New World Library, 2000)

Speaking Faith: The Essential Handbook for Religion Communicators, 7th ed by J. Richard Peck (New York: Religion Communicators Council, 2004)

Talking to the Other: Jewish Interfaith Dialogue with Christians and Muslims by Jonathan Magonet (London: I.B. Taviris, 2003)

The Divine Deli: Religious Identity in the North American Cultural Mosaic by John H. Berthrong (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999)

The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew—Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner (New York: Free Press, 2006)

The Illustrated World’s Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions  by Huston Smith (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1958)

The Myth of Religious Superiority: Multifaith Explorations of Religious Pluralism edited by Paul Knitter (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2005)

The One and the Many: America’s Struggle for the Common Good by Martin E. Marty (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997)

The World’s Parliament of Religions. 2 vols. edited by John Henry Barrows (Chicago: Parliament Publishing Company, 1893)

The World’s Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions by Huston Smith (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1961)

The World’s Wisdom: Sacred Texts of the World’s Religions by Philip Novak (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1994)

Trialogue: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Dialogue by Leonard Swidler, Khalid Duran and Reuven Firestone (New London, CT: Twenty-third Publications, 2007)

What Do We Want the Other to Teach about Us? Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Dialogues edited by David L. Coppola (Fairfield, CT: Sacred Heart University Press, 2006)

Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 2007 by Eileen W. Linder (Nashville: Abingdon, 2007)


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