Learning Interreligiously In the Text, in the World

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Interreligious readings Krishna in Advent .........3 swami yogananda`s Wisdom on the Birth of Christ .........15 Baby krishna, Infant Christ at Christmas.............17 Singing the Baby Jesus in South India .................21 Yoga and Lent .......................25 The Gita in Lent ...............57 Stopping on Holy Thursday: How a Hindu Sacred Text Helps..............87 A hindu View of Holy THursday: Yogananda .................91 A hindu View of Good Thursday ...................91 A hindu View of Good Friday .........95 A hindu View of Easter ..........99 From Darkness to Light : A hindu Mantra During the easter Vigil .........103 The gita at Easter : Our Rising up ........107 At pentecost the spirit blows, interreligiously ..........115 In ordinary time : The Sermon on the mount, a Hindu reading ..........119 Salt and Light : swami on the Sermon .......123 Jesus the Avatar ........127 NOnviolence for some : Swami on the sermon IV ..............131 On being perfect : Swami on the Sermon V...............135 Do not be Anxious ......137 Jesus, spiritual master..............139 A hindu response to swami on the Sermon .........147 Another hindu response to Swami on the Sermon .........147 Additional experiment in Interreligious reading How I preach, after Hindu Learning .............153 The Study quran and the battle against Ignorance ..............157 Studying the Qur`an as a Catholic .....161 Maryam, Mother of Jesus, In the Qur`an ...........169 Jesus in the Qur`an : Pious, Obedient, Favored servant of God ...........175 Reading the Book of Mormon .........181 2. In Dialogue So what, If Barack Hussein Obama were a Muslim?.........205 Contra Interreligious ignorance .........211 Karl Barth, Thomas Merton: forty Years Later ..................213 The loud silencing of Roger Haight, ........215 The death of a Swami and his Bliss...........219 A hare krishna Swami tells all .......................219 pope Benedict`s most Generous interreligious vision .........227 A hindu-Christian Conversation begins .......231 Archbishop nochols at the Hindu Temple Idol worship ................245 Obama, Gandhi, Jesus: Realism and Non violence ..............249 From rome, in Tibet : Interreligious Learning .........253 The pope and other religions - Once Again ..................257 Could Matteo Rici Have done it Today ..........261 Meeting the Divine mother: Amritanandamayi and Me ...............269 The Pope, The Jews- and the Pagans ...................291 Easter and our (Inter) Religious Imaginations ......295 Death of a God-Man : Sai baba dies at Eighty- Five................299 To convert a Hindu ...................307 Buddhist Christian Prayer ................311 Mrgaret farley on the Kama Sutra ..................313 The Interreligious Mary of Colm Toibin ...............317 Is Allah not our God?.........323 Finding God In uluru................327 BKS Iyengar: Rest in Peace .................331 HIgh Holy Days, Twice Over: When Jewish and Hindu Feasts Coincide ............335 The pope and the Hugging Guru ......337 Caste and Christianity : Old, New, Old Insights ..............339 Compassion and Dialogue shall Embrace ............343 Jews and Christians Together : On the deep, Top-Brief Wisdom of Joseph Redfield palmisano ..........347 Should Christians Fast this ramadan ....................351 Hindus and Catholics together in washigton ...............355 We Can`t All be Mother teresa .............359 The Clash of Religions is Overstated: The coming of Interfaith Awareness is Irreversible .............363 What catholics can Learn from A Hindu saint on His Thousandth Birth Anniversary ...............367