nbsp Cambridge MA Last night I was reading the International Herald Tribune how nostalgic on a flight back from Germany University of Paderborn to Boston Having missed out of much of the news during my busy week in Paderborn and before that in the ldquo other rdquo Cambridge UK for a w

Cambridge MA In the past weeks I wrote about my recent brief visit to China Readers may have picked up on an underlying theme I felt it was too late in life to give myself over to the China experience its culture and ways of life and religions its history and languages and current day desti

Cambridge MA I was asked several times during my ten days in China how I would compare China to India repeatedly I had to answer that this would be a very difficult comparison to make given that this had been my first visit to China while I rsquo ve been going to South Asia for 40 years What

Heathrow Airport London I am in the airport again this time on my way back to Boston after ten days in China ndash and soon enough I will post a third and final blog on that experience before my time-limited expertise runs out Here are the first and the second But I cannot resist commenting

On the way to Hangzhou I am beginning this blog on the bullet train from Beijing down to Hangzhou a large city to the south and closer to Shanghai The trains are impressive beginning with the very fine South Station in Beijing the efficiency of information and most of all for those of us fam

Beijing China I am here for a brief visit at the Minzu University the central university for ethnic cultural and religious minorities here in the capital ndash in the section of the city where a number of universities are clustered as well as the National Library the zoo and some lovely p

Heathrow Airport UK As I write these words I am in Terminal 5 that new and cosmopolitan crossroads for people traveling it seems just about everywhere in the world a shopping mall of global proportions I am on my way to Beijing for a brief 12-day visit more on that later But as I waitin t

Miami Florida I am here for the annual meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America and contemplating also my departure for a 12-day trip to China on Monday More on those events in other blogs This blog is rather about a five year and just finished project sponsored by the American Ac

nbsp Cambridge MA As many readers of In All Things know I am a Harvard professor and currently also Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Divinity School We rsquo ve just finished another most interesting invigorating and don rsquo t tell anyone exhausting year of

nbsp Cambridge MA As one might expect the news on religion and tolerance remains mixed On the one hand I think it fair to say that more and more people in every culture and religion are learning to live with differences and respect their neighbors rsquo faiths This need not translate into do