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Article: Description of the "Guidelines for interfaith celebrations."
- Article from:
- Journal of Ecumenical Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
- Author:
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Introduction
Historical evidence for multireligious cooperation abounds across the ages. Whether we take, for instance, examples of social, economic, and political cooperation among diverse religious groups during the reigns of Abd al-Rahman II (ruled 822-52 C.E.) and Abd al-Rahman III (ruled 912-61 C.E.) in Muslim Spain or during that of the Buddhist King Ashoka (ruled 273-32 B.C.E.) and that of the Mogul Emperor Akbar (ruled 1556-1605 C.E.) in India -- or whether we speak more specifically of multireligious community dialogue at a popular level - religious identity was not constructed to exclude all forms of cooperation with people outside of that religious ...
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