Comparative religious insights into the meaning of vocation in today's world
The concept of "vocation" or "calling" is a distinctively Christian concern, grounded in the long-held belief that we find our meaning, purpose, and fulfilment in God. But what about religions other than Christianity? What does it mean for someone from another faith tradition to understand calling or vocation?
In this book contributors with expertise in Catholic and Protestant Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism, and secular humanism explore the idea of calling from these eight faith perspectives. The contributors search their respective traditions' sacred texts, key figures, practices, and concepts for wisdom on the meaning of vocation. Greater understanding of diverse faith traditions, say Kathleen Cahalan and Douglas Schuurman, will hopefully increase and improve efforts to build a better, more humane world.
CONTRIBUTORS
Mark Berkson (Confucianism and Daoism)
Kathleen A. Cahalan (Catholicism)
Amy Eilberg (Judaism)
John Kelsay (Islam)
Edward Langerak (Secularism)
Anantanand Rambachan (Hinduism)
Douglas J. Schuurman (Protestantism)
Mark Unno (Buddhism)
"Calling in Today's World offers broad yet balanced perspectives on a question that rightly preoccupies believers across religious traditions: What is this call that changes one's life, whence does it come, and where does it lead? Whether readers are already convinced of their calling, or seeking to retrieve the very idea of a personal calling, or simply curious about how religious people think themselves called, this volume offers a mature and generous set of aptly nuanced possibilities for study and appropriation."
Francis X. Clooney, SJ— Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University
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