Is religion coming to an end? No, says religion scholar and interspiritual pioneer Netanel Miles-Yépez, it is an old and outworn idea of religion as ‘an-end-in-itself’ that is coming to an end. ‘Religion, ‘ he says, ‘will go on; it is how we relate to it that will change, and must change, if we are to reclaim its genuine usefulness to us.’ In The End of Religion and Other Writings, Netanel Miles-Yépez has gathered a collection of his essays and interviews on the nature and purpose of religion, the depths and hope of interreligious dialogue, as well as his writings on Neo-Hasidism and Jewish Renewal from 1999-2019. In these highly original essays, we see the work of a brilliantly creative thinker in the early stage of his career, boldly asserting new frames of understanding for many of the issues spiritual seekers struggle with today.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I Religion & Spirituality
Epochs & Reality Maps (1999)
The End of Religion (2014)
Spiritual and Religious (2014)
The Religion of Spirituality (2014)
Part II The Snowmass Conference & Interreligious Dialogue
The Snowmass Conference & The True Heart of Dialogue (2006)
Paradigms of Ecumenism as a Spiritual Practice (2008)
Courage, Interreligious Dialogue & Engaged Buddhism (2006)
Part III Hasidism & Jewish Renewal
Foundations of a Fourth Turning of Hasidism (2014)
A Rebbe’s Soul, A Hasid’s Yearning (2012)
Matisyahu & the New T’suvah (2012)
The Miracle of Re-Dedication (2012)
Part IV Problems and Perspectives on the Spiritual Path
The Other Side of Fear (2013)
What’s Happiness Got to Do with It? (2018)
The Uses and Abuses of Religion & Spiritual Leadership Today (2012)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography