Religion in the Modern World

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This paper examines a number of texts and philosophies from different world religions. The work of anthropologist Mircea Eliad is used as a basis. The differing texts and philosophies are used as a means of expressing religious thought and actions as a modern individual. The author argues that outlooks from different faiths may motivate one to be religious. For example, a Christian may find Buddhist philosophy strengthens his own practice and belief. This sense of respect and reciprocity is what the modern world can learn from religion

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"If the relationship of the sacred and profane must remain an area of contention, perhaps the only ideal that can be embraced by both believers and non-believers is the ethic of toleration, as espoused by the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber. "One should beware altogether of understanding the conversation with God ... as something that occurs merely apart from or above the everyday...God's address to man penetrates the events in all our lives and all the events in the world around us, everything biographical and everything historical, and turns it into instruction, into demands for you and me." (Buber, 1971, p.182)"

Sample of Sources Used:

• Buber, Martin. I and Thou. New York: Free Press, 1971.
• Eliade, Mircea. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. New York: Harvest Books, 1968.
• Hahn, Thich Naht. Living Buddha, Living Christ. New York: Riverhead Trade, 1997.
• Tillich, Paul. Dynamics of Faith. First Published Harper & Row, 1957. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1st Perennial Edition, 2001.

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