Assigned Readings
INTRODUCTION TO INTERFAITH STUDIES
Comparative Eastern Religions
– Ludwig, Theodore M. The Sacred Paths. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson / Prentice Hall, 2006.
– Smith, Huston. The World’s Religions. New York, NY: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
Comparative Western Religions
– Felder, Leonard. The Ten Challenges. New York: Random House Value Publishing, 1999.
– Ludwig, Theodore M. The Sacred Paths. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson / Prentice Hall, 2006.
– Smith, Huston. The World’s Religions. New York, NY: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
ADVANCED INTERFAITH STUDIES
– Armstrong, Karen. The Great Transformation. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
– Ehrman, Bart D. Misquoting Jesus. New York, NY: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005.
– Freud, Sigmund. Moses and Monotheism. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1939.
– Janis, Sharon. Spirituality for Dummies. New York, NY: Hunger Minds, Inc., 2000.
– Spong, John Shelby. Why Christianity Must Change or Die. New York, NY: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998
– Tickle, Phyllis A. God-Talk in America. New York, NY: Crossroads Publishing, 1997.
Spiritual Wisdom
–Lynch, Thomas D. and Cynthia E. Lynch. The Word of the Light. Seattle: Hara Publishing, 1998.
KNOWLEDGE SIGNIFICANT TO RELIGION
Philosophy
– Loftus, John W. Why I Became an Atheist. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2008.
– Morris, Tom. Philosophy for Dummies. New York, NY: Wiley Publishing, Inc. 1999.
Ethics
– Chardin, Teilhard de. The Divine Milieu. New York, NY: Harper Colophon Books, 1968 revised edition.
– Duska, Ronald and Mariellen Whelan. Moral Development. New York, NY: Paulist Press, 1975.
– Emrullah, Ali bin and Muhammed Hadimi. Ethics of Islam. Istanbul, Turkey: Hakikat Kitabevi, 1998.
Learning, 2000.
– Hunter, James C. The Servant. New York, NY: Crown Business, 1998.
Publishing, 2005.
PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE FOR RELIGION
Psychology
– Cash, Adam. Psychology for Dummies. New York, NY: Wiley Publishing, Inc. 2002.
– Cohen, Elliot D. What Would Aristotle Do? Amherst. N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2003.
– Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. New York, NY: Touchstone Book, 1984.
– Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1994.
– Riso, Don Richard and Russ Husdon. Discovering Your Personality Type. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 2003.
– Welfel, Elizabeth Reynolds. Ethics in Counseling and Psychotherapy. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks and Cole, 2002.
SHORT FOCUSED STUDIES
– Julian Baggini, Atheism, Oxfund
– Dan Barker, Godless, Lilysees Press.
Interfaith Minister Development Programs
Grief and Loss Counseling
–Herbert Anderson and Ken Mitchell. All our Losses, All our Griefs. Westminster Press, 1983.
–Colin Murray Parkes. Colin Murray Parkes. London: Routledge, 1997.
–Dorothy Becvar. In the Presence of Grief. Guilford, 2007.
–Ellen Bass and Laura Davis. The Courage to Heal. Collins Living, 4th, 2008.
2.6 Jewish History, Faith and Traditions.
The gifts of the Jews:.. Thomas Cahill.
Jewish History in 100 Nutshells…Robert littman.
To Life- A celebration of Jesish Being and Thinking…Harold Kushner.
SUPPLEMENTAL READING
–Fred Luskin. Forgive for Good. Harper, 2002.
–Pauline Boss. Loss, Trauma and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss. WW Norton, 2006.
–Froma Walsh. Strengthening Family Resilience. NY: Guilford Press, 1998.
–Joan Beder. Voices of Bereavement: A Casebook for Grief Counselors. Routledge, 2004.
Religious Practices
TBA
SUMMER RETREATS AND ORDINATION
No required reading.