The Future of Religious Leadership World Religions in Conversation [Hardcover]

In exploring the meaning of leadership in world religions and how it is exercised, the contributors to this volume open the door to a mutual exchange of experience and insight that makes way for shared wisdom that transcends yet honors religious difference. In the polarized world in which we live, where religion is often portrayed as a source of division, a resource such as this is timely and urgently needed.Few things could be more important in the 21st?century than religious leadership that takes seriously the challenge of making space for faiths other than their own.?That is what Alon Goshen-Gottstein and his fellow contributors have done in this important and impressive book. It deserves to be widely read and to become the start of a major conversation on the challenges facing the worlds great religions in their relationships to one another and to the challenges of our time.It was a joy to read?The Future of Religious Leadership: World Religions in?Conversation.?This book?gives us?an in-depth study of the various?forms and roles of religious leadership in the Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity?and Islam) as well as the Sikh, Hindu and Buddhist faiths.?The book?details the history and foundation for these?various forms of leadership and ultimately shows us?which aspects of leadership are shared in all these?faiths.?True?religious leadership,?in all faiths, is?found where there?is an?embodiment of love,?humility and a deep abiding sense of service; not only for the Creator but for all?of the divine creation.Studying the historical ideals and contemporary challenges of religious leadership, across religious traditions, this volume offers the scholar of religion and the future religious leader a perspective from which to consider the meaning of religious leadership today.The essays collected here, prepared by a think tank of the Elijah Interfaith Academy, address the subject of religious leadership. The subject is of broad relevance in the training of religioulҦ