http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:37:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24504/nine-lives-religious-pluralism-in-india http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24504/nine-lives-religious-pluralism-in-india#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:37:52 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24504 Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India.

The religious journeys Dalrymple describes in Nine Lives are incredibly personal. The book itself, though, is "emphatically not" about Dalrymple's own religious search — (he comes from a Catholic background.) Instead, he says the real lesson of both Nine Lives and India itself "is pluralism."

The nation's incredible diversity "makes it very difficult to believe in only your own faith — that the faith you happen to have been born into is the only possible way of reaching God," he says. India inspires the idea "that there are many ways up the mountain." But is that true?]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24504/nine-lives-religious-pluralism-in-india/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24448/stephen-colbert-vs-stephen-prothero-on-8-religions-that-run-the-world http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24448/stephen-colbert-vs-stephen-prothero-on-8-religions-that-run-the-world#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:34:09 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24448 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24448/stephen-colbert-vs-stephen-prothero-on-8-religions-that-run-the-world/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7764/spiritual-fusion http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7764/spiritual-fusion#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2004 07:50:34 +0000 Religion News Blog http:/?p=7764 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7764/spiritual-fusion/feed 0