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Finding cooperation in unexpected places

E-mail|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Michael Paulson August 16, 2008 02:48 PM

Gustav Niebuhr, the former religion reporter at the New York Times and a great nephew of Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, has written a new book, "Beyond Tolerance," exploring cooperation between religions in an increasingly diverse United States. In today's Spiritual Life column in the Globe, Rich Barlow reports:

"Researching it, he roamed the country to find numerous unsung examples of dialogue and cooperation between religious believers of different faiths. Far from being a nation locked in religious civil war, we are, he told his audience, in the midst of 'a great and growing countertrend to religious intolerance,' in which Americans share their disparate religious beliefs 'without ignoring differences, without trying to sand down all those things that make us interesting and diverse.'"

(Photo, by Jim Davis of the Globe staff, shows Gustav Niebuhr speaking at the Newton Free Library.)

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Michael Paulson covers religion for The Boston Globe. He shared in the Pulitzer Prize in 2003, won the Mike Berger, Templeton and Supple awards in 2008, and is a four-time winner of the Wilbur Award.
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