Can Shared Beliefs Clash With Values?
Paul Lichterman, who has studied religion and group dynamics for 11 years, is the author of Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America’s Divisions (2005). He studied two groups from 1998 to 2000: one group was made up of church representatives who worked on community projects in a low-income minority neighborhood, the other comprised of pastors organizing events against racism in the mid-sized city in the Midwest. Lichterman found that using core beliefs shared by two different religious groups did not always unify the participants.Read more
Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008