Rabindranath Tagore on faith
In your darkest moments, how has your sense of something greater—whether the divine, in whatever form that takes for you; love; or nature—lifted you?
Nobel Peace Laureates: Adolfo Esquivel on Silence, Meditation and Light
The Promise of Inclusion, the Power of Love: Pursuing Global Understanding, Reconciliation, and Change
The Parliament is the oldest, largest, most diverse and inclusive global interfaith event. Join us in Toronto for The Promise of Inclusion, the Power of Love: Pursuing Global Understanding, Reconciliation, and Change. Fetzer is title sponsor for the Sacred Music Concert on November 4; our program staff will be presenting in sessions on democracy and spirituality; and we will be supporting our partners throughout the conference. Look for live-streaming details.
Study of American Spirituality Advisory Group Meeting
How do people in America view and practice spirituality within and outside traditional religions? How do we exercise our spirituality in American civic life and in our ongoing needs and challenges? Advisors gather to develop a study to aid in understanding the language of religion, faith, and spirituality and the role it plays in daily life in America.
Spirituality and Community
What spiritual presence or practice do you bring to the communities you belong to and why? Fetzer gathered people from various traditions to talk about how they nurture the spiritual dimension while in community.
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Something More
Secular communities increasingly fulfill religious functions and new religious communities barely resemble their institutional forebears. Meanwhile, 3,500 churches close each year. To organized religions in crisis, this report issues a challenge: how might they transform to meet a rising generation?
Inviting a Larger Conversation About How Religion Can Be Faithful to Its Purpose Today
In our society, there is a longstanding dedication to religious traditions and institutions. At the same time, a diverse range of people are exploring new forms of spiritual identification and practice. This reflects the changing nature of faith and spirituality.
Is an Apology Necessary for Forgiveness?
In this nine-minute video from our Consider Forgiveness series, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim religious leaders and scholars from around the world explore whether an apology is required in order to forgive. The approaches and beliefs shared in this video provide great food for thought and discussion.
Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/Spirituality for Use in Health Research
This publication is the product of a national working group that examined key dimensions of religiousness/spirituality as they relate to physical and mental health outcomes. Its 12 papers include brief literature reviews, recommended instruments, and bibliographies for each of the 12 identified domains. Also included is the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality, an instrument substantially based on select questions from each domain.
Prophetic Religion in a Democratic Society
Steering between what distinguished sociologist of religion Robert Bellah calls “Enlightenment fundamentalists” on the one hand, and religious fundamentalists on the other, this essay argues against both the common secularist view that religion should be excluded from public life and the dogmatic view that would exclude all secular and religious views except one. Instead it proposes a more moderate, nuanced, and robust role for faith and religion in the common life of America and Americans.