ITEMS OF INTERST September 29, 2008 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

with contributions from Steve Padilla

CONFLICTS BETWEEN RELIGIONS continue to rock the world, but when Gustav Niebuhr looks out on the religious landscape, he sees what he calls the "possibility of community."

Niebuhr, an associate professor of religion at Syracuse University, detects an encouraging (he calls it unprecedented) trend: people of faith reaching out to those of other faiths. ...

In Niebuhr's work as a professor and, before that, a reporter on religion for The New York Times, he began noticing that, bit by bit, Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Muslims were making efforts to learn about other faiths. ... He argues there is urgent need for interfaith work. ... "Religion is to the 21st century what ideology was to the 20th," Niebuhr said.

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