Offered Fall 2012
Throughout human history, religions have both bonded their own groups and degraded other groups. Holy wars, genocides, and crusades have been more prevalent than the tolerances of Ashoka, the Roman empire, and Genghis Khan. Can recent parliaments of religions move humanity beyond this?
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- Ashoka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka
- Roman religion http://www.roman-empire.net/religion/religion.html
- Genghis Khan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan
- Han http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Dynasty
- Akbar the Great | Biography of the Mughal Emperor of India
asianhistory.about.com/od/india/p/akbarthegreatbio.htm - George Washington’s letter to Touro Synagogue, Newport RI
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=21
- 1797 Treaty with Tripoli
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/treaty_tripoli.html - 1893 World Parliament of Religions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_World’s_Religions - 1924 Religions of the Empire
http://archive.org/details/MN40207ucmf_5 - World Congress of Faiths (1936) started at 2nd congress of World Fellowship of Faiths
- World Parliament of Religions. 1993, 1999, 2004, 2009
- Hans Küng
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Küng
http://www.global-ethic-now.de/gen-eng/0a_was-ist-weltethos/0a-04-capitel-4/0a-04-00-die-stiftung.php - Wiki History of Religious Pluralism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_religious_pluralism - Wiki Freedom of Religion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion - Karen Armstrong’s Charter for Compassion
http://charterforcompassion.org - Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions
http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=15d4f7de1064a5171ce87bc0e&id=7a803a36af&e=37800c721c