Understanding Each Other After 9-11: What Everyone Should Know About the Religions of the World

Kirk Heriot

ISBN 10: 1882897986 / ISBN 13: 9781882897988

Published by Lost Coast Press (edition first), 2011

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With dust jacket. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Each Other After 9-11: What Everyone Should Know About the Religions of the World
• Publisher: Lost Coast Press (edition first)
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1882897986
• ISBN 13: 9781882897988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: first.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

The tensions we experience in the aftermath of 9/11 stem from a lack of basic knowledge. This was tragically evident September 15, 2001, when Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh, was killed by a man so ignorant that he thought all Muslims were responsible for the 9/11 attacks and that anyone wearing a turban was Muslim. This survey of today's major religions explores our diversity in hopes of helping us find our way to greater unity, and provides the knowledge we need to live in harmony. Understanding other religions and their similarities to our own enhances our sense of belonging and expands our sense of global community, allowing us to join together to face our collective future. Religion may kindle conflict, but it can also help diminish our sense of difference, expand our view of life, and enrich our personal experience through touching the experience of the billions of people of different faiths with whom we share our planet.

About the Author

KIRK HERIOT was trained as a medical researcher and earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. A practicing pathologist, Dr. Heriot holds a clinical assistant professorship in pathology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.

Long fascinated with the history of ideas and how they have changed the world, Kirk Heriot believes that this area has not been given the focus it merits. Great people have surely added much to the world, he says, but I believe that history is shaped more by our collective ideas than by a few individuals, and the great ideas in the sciences, the major religions, and the arts should be receiving more attention.