Sharing the Book: Religious Perspectives on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism

More than a dozen religious leaders offer authoritative statements and analyses of classic and contemporary perspectives on mission activity and conversion in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

John Witte Jr., JD (Harvard), is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory Law School.

Richard C. Martin, a scholar of Islam with strong comparative interests, is Professor of Religion at Emory University.

Martin E. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where for 35 years he taught religious history in three faculties. Since 1956 he has been on the masthead of the Christian Century and is editor of Context. He specializes in American religious history and headed the six-year Fundamentalism Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds the National Medal of Humanities and the medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was honored with the National Book Award for Righteous Empire in 1971. An ordained Lutheran minister, he frequently also writes on theological themes.