Interfaith Dialogue on Secularism and Atheism: Muslims and Christians sit down to discuss issues

Описание: Representatives of the Mid-Atlantic Catholic and Muslim Dialogue gather on April 2-3, 2014, at the Why Islam Center in Somerset, New Jersey, to address the challenges faced by faith communities in society steeped in secularism. The Most Reverend Barry Knestout, Ausilary Bishop of Washington, D.C. and Dr. Talat Sultan of the Islamic Circle of North America, presided.

Topics discussed included atheism and its effect upon the social and cultural environment in which the absence of God is acutely felt by those with religious faith, the tension in religious communities between the need to assimilate into the broader American culture and the desire to maintain one's religious practice, and the importance of religious diversity. Four papers were presented, and the first was on neo-atheism, deliver by Rev. Dr. Sidney Griffith. The second paper on Muslim youth in a secular society was presented by Rameez Abid. The third paper on religious diversity in a secularized world was presented by Dr. Sandra Keating. And the fourth paper on the impact secularism has on spirituality was presented by Sh. Abdool Rahman Khan.

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