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In each chapter Christian and Buddhist visions of life are contrasted and/or compared. Divided into three parts, the meditations progress from a cosmic vision through the search for self to the final death/resurrection of the Great Death. That is, from the wisdom tradition of each religion through the Oxherding and the Good Shepherd stories. to the loss of self and rediscovery on a deeper level, to the fuller, more authentic life. The riches to be gleaned from these meditative comparisons would "fill a book"...
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He will examine the influence of religious and racial prejudice in the nineteenth century and the development of positive attitudes towards religious pluralism by significant Irish American Catholic leaders who emerged from societies dominated by these historic prejudices.
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