I hope the Pope's words will inspire the moderates to go to bat for the notion of interreligious dialogue. ❋ Suzanne (2006)
Unfortunately my parents do not like the idea of interreligious dating and marriage, and dont believe it will work out. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We expect that religious diversity within social networks—religious bridging—will foster greater interreligious acceptance. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
Now we employ the same type of analysis to see whether an increase in religious bridging leads to an increase in interreligious acceptance.17 While we must caution that such an analysis of panel data does not definitely determine causation—the Holy Grail of any social science analysis—it does provide much stronger evidence for causation than a single-shot survey.18 ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
People who describe themselves as “very liberal” are cooler toward conservatives (36), and “very conservative” respondents are, in turn, cooler toward liberals (38) than any religious group is toward another.26 Keep these thermometer scores of conservatives and liberals in mind during any discussion of interreligious tension—the potential for political conflict seems greater than for conflict over religion. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
As Americans have come to live by, make friends with, and wed people of other religions, their overlapping social relationships have made it difficult to sustain interreligious hostility. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
However, we do not wish to leave the impression that interreligious marriage is equally fine with everyone. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
While not every religion escapes hostility, interreligious tensions are far more muted today than in the America of yesterday or in many other nations today. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
While religious divisions exist, including some latent interreligious tensions, we should not overstate the capacity of religion to cause tension or division. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
If interreligious relations are enhanced by religious bridging, it seems reasonable to think that religious bridging would also lead people to accept the patriotic bona fides of people without religious faith. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
In this respect, interreligious contact is qualitatively different from contact with people of different races and, arguably, of different socioeconomic backgrounds. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
The religious churn that characterizes American society leads to a lot of interreligious mixing within our neighborhoods, friendships, and families. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
Indeed, interreligious relationships are so common that most Americans probably pay them little mind, and consider them unremarkable. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
However, this first-order effect is not the only way that interreligious marriage can affect interreligious relations. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
Furthermore, if we can see the effects of interreligious friendships, and over only a single year at that, it is also reasonable to assume that interreligious marriages have a far more potent effect. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
And even when ethnicity is removed from the equation, theological disputes can lead to interreligious tension. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
By any standard, this bodes well for interreligious relations. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
Today, however, Catholics have a high rate of interreligious marriage, and increasingly have left the old neighborhoods in the city to buy a house in the suburbs.13 When put alongside the relatively high regard Catholics show for fellow Catholics, the relatively high degree of religious homogeneity within their social networks is perhaps less surprising. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
