Interfaith Worship and Prayer: We Must Pray Together

By: Aaron Rosen and Carolyn Rosen and Alan Brill and Hugh Ellis and Marcus Braybrooke and Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook and Pashaura Singh and Lucy Soucek and Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh and Ibrahim Mogra and Alan Race and Wendi Momen and George Ballentyne and Feargus O’Connor and Usama Hasan and Jay Atkinson and Yasuhiro Tanaka and Yoshinobu Miyake and Maneck Bhujwala and Behram Deboo and Jehangir Sarosh and Vishvapani Blomfield and Bogodo Seelawimala and Natubhai Shah and Vinod Kapashi and Hebron L Ndlovu and Nokuzola Mndende and Shaunaka Rishi Das and Anantanand Rambachan

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Synopsis: This ground-breaking book contains contributions from 12 different religious traditions: Hinduism, African Traditional Religion, Judaism, Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Shintoism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Unitarianism and Bahá'í. Interfaith worship and prayer can be complex, but this book demonstrates that in a world of many cultures and religions, there is an urgent need for religions to come together with trust and communication, especially when there is a crisis. Full of insights and examples of practice, the book demonstrates how religions can be a powerful means of unity and compassion. The book opposes the 'clash of civilisations' model as a way of interpreting the world and promotes peace, hope, and the possibility of cooperation. Religious believers can be sincere and committed to their own faith, while recognising the need to stand firmly together with members of other religious traditions.