Part of the Problem, Part of the Solution

Arvind Sharma has been a member of the faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University since 1987. He has held fellowships at the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, and the Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, and at the Brookings Institute. He also received a Maxwell Fellowship and was elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. He is the author of Are Human Rights Western? (2006) and Religious Studies and Comparative Methodology (2005).

• Introduction Arvind SharmaThere Is No Clash of Civilizations Shirin EbadiTo Secularize Religion and Spiritualize Politics Sri Sri Ravi ShankarReligion Is Central to Human Affairs DidijiReligion Is About How You Behave: The Essential Virtue is Compassion Karen ArmstrongReligion and Human Rights Shirin EbadiWomen in World Religions: Discrimination, Liberation and Backlash Rosemary Radford RuetherFundamentalism and Interfaith Dialogue Harvey CoxWhat on Earth is Evangelism? Rev. Donald PosterskiReligion in an Age of Anxiety Seyyed Hossein NasrProselytization and Religious Freedom Dayananda SaraswatiReligion, Identity and Violence Rabbi David RosenReligion and Science Huston SmithPanel Discussion: Worlds Religions, Human Rights and Same-Sex Marriage Margaret Somerville, Janet Buckingham, Brendt Hawkes, Douglas ElliottA Jaina Perspective on Non-Violence and Warfare Padmanabh S. JainiPanel Discussion: Perspectives on the Conflict in the Middle East Rabbi Dow Marmur, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Gregory Baum, Karen ArmstrongReligion and Media Seyed Mohammad Ali AbtahiReligion and Media Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiThe Dawson College Incident Professor Shanta SrivastavaPieces Of The Jigsaw Puzzle Arvind SharmaAfterwordJean DuhaimeAbout the Contributors

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