Interfaith Initiative and Religions

This book is meant for everyone in India and abroad who wants to know about the interfaith and its different aspects. This book will help one to know about various religious aspects and its role in one's life. The author has tried his best in this book to present his ideas so that people of different faiths can live peacefully in the society. The objective of different faiths is to establish peace and harmony in the world. Whatever religion is there its core aspect is to bind the people not to break the people. I hope after reading this book a reader would come to understand silent features of different religions and importance of interfaith and religious dialogue and its role and necessity of solving their socio-religious problems in the present world. It also provides common men and even a literate person with a proper insight into and helps him to appreciate the principles which various. religious ideologies stand for. The author hopes that every student and common people will welcome this book. This book is worth for libraries and readers would admire it.

Dr. Deo Kant Mishra Completed his B.A. (Hons.) in History from the Motilal Nehru College (morning) and M.A. in History from the Dept. of History of the University of Delhi. From the same University having completed Diploma in Pali and Diploma in Tibetan language and literature from the Dept. of Buddhist Studies, he also completed M.A. and Ph.D from the same Department. A man of varied taste he has also done B. Ed. and Master in Business administration (Dip.)

At present he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of History of the Bhagini Nivedita College of the University of Delhi.

In Indian spiritual traditions interfaith dialogues and an open philosophical debate have been the primary source for assertion and refutation to enrich their dogmatic stand of their religion. This helped crystallization of their religious principals.

Rigveda underlines the importance of collective human endeavour. It also speaks about maintaining harmonious equilibrium with self and nature thus it has conceived the entire universe as a one family unit. The Upanishadic period formulated intellectual dimension of social cohesion by stating the 'truth is one; the wise man speaks of many'. Buddhism preached by the Shakyamuni, the Buddha (563-483 BC) in its time has initiated social engineering by raising voice against inequality and violence that was prevailing in the then society.

The India is a pluralistic society where multi ethnic, linguistic, religious and indigenous social groups co-exist. In such conditions clash of interest and misadjustment of social values are bound to cope up but, through community dialogue process of healing and reconciliation has to be initiated for resolving such conflict and disputes thus such diversity could be seen as an outer expression of national unity.

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