Ruth Broyde Sharone

Minefields & Miracles: Why God and Allah Need to Talk

Herausgeber: Abrahams, Leah

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Produktbeschreibung

Seeking a way to promote mutual respect among people of widely divergent beliefs, journalist/filmmaker/activist Ruth Broyde Sharone takes on grass-roots interfaith engagement as her personal and global mission, vividly recounting her rollicking "minefields and miracles" along the way. This captivating memoir and colorful overview of the interfaith movement-- considered a "primer" in interfaith engagement-- garnered endorsements from more than 30 global leaders of many faiths, including H.H. the Dalai Lama. "The world needs more narratives of how faith can be a bridge of cooperation, rather than a barrier of division. I deeply thank Ruth Broyde Sharone for sharing her inspiring stories of bridge-building around the world," writes Eboo Patel, Founder & President, Interfaith Youth Core. Ruth's "wake-up call" occurs during her college years. After detailing her first painful encounter with religious discrimination, Ruth goes on to describe her courageous sojourn alone as a 21-year-old traversing the length and breadth of Latin America. Few young women were allowed that freedom. She emerges from that trip strongly identifying with the Latin American people and culture, and with a keen desire to explore the rest of the world. First a journalist, then a documentary filmmaker, Ruth travels in Europe and later spends 10 years making films in Israel, where she encounters the ongoing Israeli/Palestinian conflict, a conflict that continues to haunt her even when she returns to the States. Ruth explains how, after marriage and motherhood, she is transformed into a passionate interfaith advocate--often at her own expense. She joins forces with a Black female minister to organize interfaith pilgrimages to the Middle East. Following 9/11 she is invited to screen her award-winning film, God and Allah Need to Talk, at the 2004 Parliament of the World's Religions gathering in Barcelona, Spain. In Barcelona she experiences her first taste of "interfaith paradise," which inspires her to intensify her interfaith activities around the globe. Brimming with photographs of her journeys--from California to Argentina, from Africa to India, from Italy to Green Bay, the book also includes historical photos of the remarkable individuals from around the world who participated in the first Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893. Says Pulitzer Prize winning author Jack Miles, "Readers will instantly connect with this open-hearted, often touching, occasionally hilarious, and always disarmingly personal account of inter-religious adventures and misadventures." Through Ruth we begin to understand the inner life of the peacemakers and boundary-crossers who walk among us--many recruited by Ruth as she travels and speaks extensively in churches, mosques, synagogues and universities. Yes, there are minefields along the way--and Broyde Sharone describes them clearly, seeking to learn the causes. She describes the miracles, too, as when 250 people representing 13 religious communities gather in 2011 in Los Angeles to celebrate a Festival of Freedom Seder, honoring the promise of the Arab Spring. "We are now at the tipping point," Broyde Sharone declares at the end of her compelling book. She offers vivid and concrete examples of the expansion of the global interfaith web and inspires us to view the "other" and "the stranger" as friend and fellow traveler. "Ruth is a master storyteller, traversing the world, making films, weaving webs of connection, and inspiring us to do the same. She epitomizes what people mean when they ask us to become the change we want to see in the world. Read her book." -Rev.Paul Chaffee, Editor, "The Interfaith Observer" A set of questions for discussion is included at the end of the book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Touchladybirdlucky Studios
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780999256305
• ISBN-10: 0999256300
• Artikelnr.: 57979228

Autorenporträt

A passionate interfaith leader, documentary filmmaker, journalist, and author, honored internationally for her contributions to cultural education, peace and justice, Ruth Broyde Sharone served as Co-Chair of the Southern California Parliament of the World's Religions (SCCPWR) for 10 years. She is an inspirational public speaker and travels frequently to college campuses to present interfaith programs including her award-winning documentary GOD AND ALLAH NEED TO TALK. Her riveting interfaith memoir, MINEFIELDS & MIRACLES: Why God and Allah Need to Talk, is considered "a primer on interfaith engagement," and was endorsed by more than 30 religious leaders including H.H. the Dalai Lama. The memoir won top awards in three literary competitions. She is also a co-author of the 2018 best-selling Amazon book, 21ST CENTURY VOICES: Women Who Influence, Inspire, and Make A Difference. A strong believer in the arts as a powerful vehicle for interfaith engagement, Ruth created THIS IS WHO WE ARE, an interfaith musical celebrating our cultural and religious diversity and produced an album entitled INTERFAITH: The Musical. Invited twice to address UN roundtables in Geneva, Switzerland, Ruth has pioneered interfaith pilgrimages to Egypt, Israel and Turkey. In 1991 she co-founded FESTIVAL OF FREEDOM with an African-American Minister. Participants of diverse religious, racial and ethnic backgrounds were invited to share their faith stories as they retraced the steps of the Exodus, from Egypt to the Sinai to Jerusalem. FESTIVAL OF FREEDOM was highlighted on CNN World News in 1994. Ruth worked on staff of the global Parliament, serving as a Partner Cities Associate in the U.S., Latin America, Australia, and the Middle East. She initiated major interfaith events at the Bangladeshi and Moroccan Embassies in Washington, D.C. and was invited to present her unique interfaith programs in Spain, Mexico, England, and Italy. In 2013 she was inducted into the Martin Luther King Advisory Board at Morehouse College in Atlanta and in 2015 she received a special commendation as an interfaith leader from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. Ruth was invited to teach a class called Interfaith Activism and Beyond at the Academy of Jewish Religion California (AJRCA), the first course of its kind at the rabbinical seminary. Ruth was also a regular correspondent for The Interfaith Observer, an on-line interfaith monthly, where she published more than 70 articles.