August2000 Newsletter Pg3

PAGE 3 - Developments in World Religion

GROUPS

Below we have listed several groups dedicated to improving the religious environment of the world. Please take a moment to check them out on their own sites or read a brief synopsis of their work in our listing area....Religious Groups. You will find many other interesting and worthy religious groups there as well.

In a world where religious differences are too often the cause of tragedy and warfare, United Communities of Spirit works to provide a forum where people of good will from every culture and faith tradition can come together, learn from one another, and develop a shared understanding that can inspire and uplift the world.

INTERFAITH VOICES FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE is a communications network for faith-based activist groups. Our network provides a variety of ways that representatives from these groups can interact with one another in the search for a common peace and justice agenda.

http://interfaithvoices.org/ifv.cfm

The Association for Religion and Intellectual Life (ARIL).

A global network of people from various religious traditions who share a commitment to bringing into closer relationship the passions of the heart with the life of the mind.

Publisher of Cross Currents magazine for 50 years. Cross Currents Online provides "the very best thought and writing being done on the world's major faith traditions" as well as recommended resources for better understanding of religious traditions and the interaction between them.
http://www.crosscurrents.org/

The purpose of the GDI is to promote dialogue in the broadest sense among individuals and groups of different religions and cultures.

http://astro.temple.edu/~dialogue

The NORTH AMERICAN INTERFAITH NETWORK is a non-profit association with a membership of approximately 60 faith and interfaith organizations and agencies. Its mission is to build communication and mutual understanding among interfaith organizations and diverse religious groups throughout North America. The Board brings together persons from the United States and Canada, representing religious traditions and interfaith organizations.

http://www.nain.org/

The Pluralism Project was developed by Diana L. Eck at Harvard University to study and document the growing religious diversity of the United States, with a special view to its new immigrant religious communities.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/

The International Interfaith Centre was inaugurated in Oxford, UK on 6 December 1993, inspired by the 1993 Year of Interreligious Understanding and Cooperation. As a result of the increasing amount and variety of interfaith activity around the world, it was perceived that a need could be met by an international, interfaith centre which was informed about all these different efforts and able to encourage continuing interfaith understanding and cooperation.

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