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Those Other Religions in Your Neighborhood: Loving Your Neighbor When You Don't Know How
Almost everyone knows someone who belongs to a non-Christian religious tradition. This book will help Christians answer some of the most commonly asked questions about what the rise of other religions in this country means to them. A timely, practical, and understandable book for Christians who live in a rapidly changing religious landscape.
223 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1992
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About the author
Terry C. Muck
35 booksTerry Muck (PhD, Northwestern University) is interim executive director of the Louisville Institute, a Lilly Endowment-funded program based at Louisville Seminary supporting those who lead and study American religious institutions. He formerly served as dean of the E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is the author of nine books, including Ministry and Theology in Global Perspective: Contemporary Challenges for the Church.
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September 7, 2012
Excellent book, lightly edited in the electronic Kindle edition recently republished by Sacred Tribes Press.
One small point which would be worth revising: The author quotes a passage in M. K. Gandhi's well-known autobiography, in which Gandhi states asserts that Hindus converting to Christian faith were given beef to eat and brandy to drink following baptism. In his important text, "The Confusion Called Conversion," published in India, Ebenezer Sundar Raj says that this was rather a misrepresentation on Gandhi's part. The mission worker involved was actually not only sensitive to Gujarathi culture, but actually composed poetry and hymns in the language. This worker wrote to Gandhi, who replied personally with an apology, but never did print a public retraction.
Most of the above incident would probably not be especially useful for the framework of the book itself, but it might be worth replacing that particular quote with something else which doesn't have the same difficult history.
One small point which would be worth revising: The author quotes a passage in M. K. Gandhi's well-known autobiography, in which Gandhi states asserts that Hindus converting to Christian faith were given beef to eat and brandy to drink following baptism. In his important text, "The Confusion Called Conversion," published in India, Ebenezer Sundar Raj says that this was rather a misrepresentation on Gandhi's part. The mission worker involved was actually not only sensitive to Gujarathi culture, but actually composed poetry and hymns in the language. This worker wrote to Gandhi, who replied personally with an apology, but never did print a public retraction.
Most of the above incident would probably not be especially useful for the framework of the book itself, but it might be worth replacing that particular quote with something else which doesn't have the same difficult history.
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