{"id":1784,"date":"2015-06-01T17:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T22:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/?page_id=1784"},"modified":"2016-02-14T14:22:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T19:22:54","slug":"guidelines-for-arranging-group-visits-to-houses-of-worship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/interfaith-dialogue\/principles-and-guidelines-for-interfaith-dialogue\/guidelines-for-arranging-group-visits-to-houses-of-worship","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines for arranging group visits to Houses of Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"
By JW Windland<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Download this document in PDF Format<\/a> <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For the past 40 years, I have been visiting houses of worship in various North American cities. My visits to mosques, synagogues, gurdwaras, temples, meditation centers and churches have proved to be a wonderful complement to my many years of studying and teaching world religions.<\/p>\n One cannot really understand a faith tradition without entering into some kind of experience of that tradition. A house of worship site visit allows for just such an experience.<\/p>\n Inside the house of worship, one experiences the tastes, sounds, sights and smells of a faith tradition and its heritage. Here one encounters the tradition’s unique culture – its music, its prayer, its beliefs, its practices, its foods, its rituals, its people. One of the benefits of such visits is that not only does one learn more about another faith tradition but one also learns about oneself and about one’s own religious tradition.<\/p>\nTable of Contents<\/h3>\n
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\nDownload this document in DOC Format<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\nIntroduction<\/h2>\n