BELONG TO THE WORLD BRING YOUR TRIBE is Lauren Zinn’s vision of a Jewish future that is nondual, universal, integral, inclusive, detached from political Zionism, aligned with liberal democracy, and open to learning alongside and from other religions. It is a roadmap for the evolution of all religions that should be read as a catalyst for the transformation of your religion.
-Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Zen Mind, Jewish Mind
LAUREN ZINN, Ph.D., Rev. adds to the scholarship of religion education by framing Judaism within humanity’s evolution of consciousness. From this big picture, the need for a new paradigm of religions comes into view. Zinn sees the contributions of the interfaith movement supporting the emergence of a new world-centric order developing from our current, dominant yet inadequate ethno-centric worldview. While many Jewish thought leaders acknowledge that Judaism must change to survive, Zinn brings her perspective as a Jewish and interfaith educator as well as philosopher of history to the conversation.
BELONG TO THE WORLD BRING YOUR TRIBE lays out what it means to belong to the world of the interspiritual age, patiently bring your tribe with love, and, through new practices, become interspiritually Jewish (or your religion) at a time when our future may depend on it.
More praise for Belong to the World Bring your Tribe
“Belong to the World Bring your Tribe: A New Vision for Judaism, offers a vision which is especially compelling during these times. It is an intellectual autobiography and draws upon disparate in-depth interactions with students and scholars. Lauren Zinn is an intellectual force advancing the new Judaism.”
– BARRY CHECKOWAY, Ph.D., Arthur Dunham Collegiate Professor Emeritus of Social Work and Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at the University of Michigan School of Social Work
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“The topic for this book could not be more urgent and the title more apt. Zinn has spoken to our moment in history. We must hold our tribes with ever more love and care, even as we show up for each other in these perilous times. Zinn leads the way.”
– RABBI NANCY FUCHS KREIMER, Ph.D. Founding Director, Multifaith Studies and Initiative, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Emerita
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“For anyone worried about the future of our war-torn, conflict ridden, seemingly broken world, Lauren Zinn’s book offers a vista of hope. BELONG TO THE WORLD BRING YOUR TRIBE is a work of rare courage, wisdom, and candor. It points beyond fear and tribalism to a shared life animated by deep listening and mutual care.” – JULIAN LEVINSON, Ph.D. The University of Michigan
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“Lauren Zinn has written an important addition to the scant literature on the interfaith and interspiritual world into which we are all heading. Her perspective as an interfaith educator brings essential new stories, context, and wisdom to the experience of spiritual complexity, diversity, and abundance.”
– SUSAN KATZ MILLER, Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family
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“Groundbreaking!! BELONG TO THE WORLD BRING YOUR TRIBE is an amazing tour de force! It is a combination of mind-expanding creativity and scholarly documentation focused on the evolution of interfaith and interspiritual possibilities for the Jewish community and larger world. Using personal experience and clear vision, Zinn brings antagonistic forces into a new synthesis. May this vision lead us forward into the next turn of the wheel.”
– LUCINDA KURTZ, M.A., Jewish Renewal Sage-ing Mentor, Ritualist, Poet, & Brennan Healing Science Practitioner
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“A powerful re-imagining of Jewish belonging.”
— Mirabai Starr, Author and Teacher
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“I could not be more impressed or moved by what Lauren Zinn has accomplished in BELONG TO THE WORLD BRING YOUR TRIBE. It’s a masterpiece – a brilliant, personal, passionate and very learned plea for, and exploration of, how we human beings (Jewish or otherwise) can vastly improve our relationship to and with the world and each other.” – SIMONE YEHUDA, Screenwriter
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“Religion – is that still a thing?’ In BELONG TO THE WORLD BRING YOUR TRIBE, Zinn bravely answers Yes, but, if it and all of us are going to survive, religion must change. It must move to ‘a new good heart,’ open to our religious family but also to other religious families. Zinn reinforces the notion that interspirituality is not a blend of all religions but a way to practice your own in relationship with others practicing theirs. Zinn is right; religion lived this new way could help all religions (and us) survive – and thrive.”
– JEANINE DILLER, Ph.D. The University of Toledo
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Belong to the World Bring Your Tribe: A New Vision for Judaism lays the foundation for Zinn’s next nonfiction book, Teaching Judaism (or your religion) in the Interspiritual Classroom