Crossing Boundaries: The Way of Interspirituality

© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/157430111X613647 Religion & Theology 18 (2011) 10–31 brill.nl/rt & Religion Theology Crossing Boundaries: The Way of Interspirituality Celia Kourie Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, University of South Africa, P. O. Box 392, 0003 UNISA, Republic of South Africa celia.kourie@gmail.com Abstract A large number of twenty-first century women and men are profoundly dissatisfied with the role of religion in society. Many organised religions are in decline; there is often an “allergic reaction” towards institutional churches due to their dogmatic intransigence, clericalism, abuse of power and autocratic structures. However, concomitant with these