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The 2002 Meeting of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies

The 2002 Meeting of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies 4_133-201 9/3/03 7:31 AM Page 135 NEWS AND VIEWS The 2002 Meeting of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Alice Keefe University of Wisconsin– Stevens Point “Religious Responses to Violence” was the theme for the program at the SBCS Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada, on November 22–23, 2002. Speaking from Christian and Jewish perspectives, the presenters in Session I were Harold Kasimow, Professor Emeritus of Grinnell College; Elaine MacInnes, O.L.M.; Sarah Pinnock of Trinity University; and Rebekah Miles from the Perkins School of Theology. Responding from a Buddhist perspective was Virginia Strauss of the Boston Research Center. Session II offered reflections on Buddhist responses to violence from Gene Reeves of the International Buddhist Congregation; Christopher Ives of Stonehill College; and John Makransky, professor of Religious Studies at Boston College and a Buddhist teacher, with a Christian response from Theodore Walker of Perkins School of Theology, noted for his work in Black theology. Opening Session I, Harold Kasimow explored Jewish responses to violence, which he finds similar in many ways to responses to violence in Mahayana Buddhism. Both traditions unequivocally condemn violence. Basic to Jewish reflection on violence is the great commandment that one shall love one’s neighbor as oneself, along http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Buddhist-Christian Studies University of Hawai'I Press

The 2002 Meeting of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies

Keefe, Alice A.
Buddhist-Christian Studies , Volume 23 – Oct 29, 2003
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4_133-201 9/3/03 7:31 AM Page 135 NEWS AND VIEWS The 2002 Meeting of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Alice Keefe University of Wisconsin– Stevens Point “Religious Responses to Violence” was the theme for the program at the SBCS Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada, on November 22–23, 2002. Speaking from Christian and Jewish perspectives, the presenters in Session I were Harold Kasimow, Professor Emeritus of Grinnell College; Elaine MacInnes, O.L.M.; Sarah Pinnock of Trinity University; and Rebekah Miles from the Perkins School of Theology. Responding from a Buddhist perspective was Virginia Strauss of the Boston Research Center. Session II offered reflections on Buddhist responses to violence from Gene Reeves of the International Buddhist Congregation; Christopher Ives of Stonehill College; and John Makransky, professor of Religious Studies at Boston College and a Buddhist teacher, with a Christian response from Theodore Walker of Perkins School of Theology, noted for his work in Black theology. Opening Session I, Harold Kasimow explored Jewish responses to violence, which he finds similar in many ways to responses to violence in Mahayana Buddhism. Both traditions unequivocally condemn violence. Basic to Jewish reflection on violence is the great commandment that one shall love one’s neighbor as oneself, along

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Published: Oct 29, 2003

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