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In this very timely and important book, the author explores how the resurgent religions throughout Asia and the Pacific can work together to undercut outbreaks of violence and terrorism claiming a religious sanction. (Dr Bruce Duncan, University of Divinity) ... an impressive and convincing argument on behalf of peaceful engagement between the faiths and moral commitments that guide our lives. (Dr Robert Gascoigne, Australian Catholic University) ... suggests how interactive theology, done collaboratively in a multifaith context, might provide a new theology to meet the urgent contemporary quest for ethically responsible globalisation. (Dr Gideon Goosen, Australian Catholic University)

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John D'Arcy May was born in Melbourne, Australia, and now lives in retirement near Geelong. He received doctorates from the universities of Münster (Ecumenical Theology, 1975) and Frankfurt (History of Religions, 1983). He taught at the Catholic Ecumenical Institute, University of Münster, 1975-1982, and he was Ecumenical Research Officer with the Melanesian Council of Churches, Papua New Guinea, 1983-1987. He was Director of the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin, 1987-1990 and 1995, where he was Associate Professor of Interfaith Dialogue, 1987-2007. He is a Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College.

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