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• W164015671 abstract "I first heard and responded to Mehmet Aydin's essay in Skopje, Macedonia, on May 11, 2002. Several months later, as I reflect on his words and try to recall my initial impressions, I can see how the events of this long year have deepened my appreciation of his effort and heightened my awareness of the significance of his contribution to dialogue. I am writing on September 12, 2002, one day after the first anniversary of the terrible attack on the United States. Yesterday evening in my hometown of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, a large suburb of Philadelphia, we had an interfaith memorial service for those who perished on that dark day a year ago. Twelve hundred residents of Cherry Hill packed into a large Roman Catholic church and participated in a worship service led by our community's religious leaders. Memorial prayers and meditations were offered by believing Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus, representing the major religious groups in the community. Through their words and devotions, I believe we all experienced each faith tradition in the sense in which Aydin wishes to present his Islamic tradition. We did not see any one of them attempting to present the full, definitive, and unsurpassable answer to the deep spiritual questions we all had. Rather, we recognized that each tradition presented a unique but still universal, decisive, and indispensable spiritual message that offered all of us hope and strength in our time of spiritual need. As we, as a community, tried to make sense of the events of the past year, the words, the symbols, the sounds, and the melodies of all the traditions comforted and supported us in our pain and deepened us in our own individual faiths. Seeing our pain, our questions, our dreams, and our hopes reflected in the hearts of the varied faithful helped anchor us, at least for that evening, in our shared community and in our individual traditions. We discovered that our faith traditions were complementary and that we needed each other to fill the gap in our hearts. I felt, for the first time in a long time that Aydin's conception was true not only in my mind but also in my heart. I was not such a hopeful believer six months ago when I first heard Aydin's words in Skopje, Macedonia. We may be on our way to become a global village, but not all villages are peaceful paradises of pluralistic understanding. Proximity does not guarantee acceptance. In many places, torn by interethnic, intercultural, and interreligious strife, even mere tolerance seems to be an unimaginable goal. Place, history, and memory are crucial factors in making the dream of pluralism a reality. It was hard for me to find hope in Aydin's hopeful words in Macedonia, a country that had narrowly escaped the worst of the interreligious and interethnic conflicts that tore up so much of former Yugoslavia, a land still recovering from the devastation of World War II and half a century of communist oppression. A decade of conflict shows that the Balkans had not performed well as a corner of our religiously and culturally diverse global village. In addition, from a more personal perspective, the sights and sounds of Eastern Europe stirred my Jewish memories. As the Jewish historical experience shows, living in proximity of the other, being integrated in the general economy, sharing a common vernacular, and interacting daily with the greater community do not ensure acceptance and understanding. Quite often, the opposite occurs. For a minority group like the Jews of Europe, the conditions that support peaceful relations with the greater world could quickly and unpredictably shift. The experience of oppression, persecution, and expulsion is often far more common than that of tolerance and acceptance. Pluralism is not a demographic reality. It is a way of understanding and experiencing our inevitable diversity. Fundamentally, pluralism means seeing human diversity as a positive rather than negative or even neutral factor in human life. …" @default.
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