[Buddha-l] Sightings - Buddhism and Violence

[Michael Paris]

Perhaps apropos of the earlier discussion of Buddhism and violence...



Sightings

November 22, 2010
Buddhism and Violence

— Martin E. Marty


Buddhism and Islam came off as the two “faith communities” to whom 
other Americans feel least warm, according to a Faith Matters 
survey of 2007. Robert Putnam and David Campbell ponder this in 
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, which 
Sightings has visited twice before. Mormons come in third as a 
stimulator of “least warm” feelings among others. The authors 
comment that negative media attention hurts Mormons and Muslims, 
but “Buddhists do not get the same negative media attention” as do 
those two. So something else must account for the negative ratings 
of Buddhism.

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http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter/publications/sightings/archive_2010/1122.shtml