Mixing it up - the evolution of religion

Its seems that religion is not immune to evolutionary pressures...

If people are straying from the church, he says, it’s the church’s fault for not doing a “better job.”

“There’s a lot to be done to make worship more vibrant and to make the preaching more relevant for people,” he says. “Religion is not just ideas, it’s the bonds of community, and if you get so [insular] that you don’t hold people, you have a problem.”

- Why some Americans mix Christianity, Eastern religions, Christian Science Monitor

Another great quote from the article:

Others, though, argue that religious purity is a non sequitur.

“The thing that is forgotten in these discussions is that any single religious tradition is itself already a composite,” says Harvey Cox, a professor at the Harvard Divinity School whose 1965 book, “The Secular City,” is considered a theology classic. He considers the idea of isolated religious traditions to be “a big myth.”

“What we have are streams that have been fed by other streams and have fed other streams all along,” he says. “Even what is advertised by clerical leaders as the kind of ‘pure package’ is already the result of the collage.”

Dr Harvey Cox was a contributor to "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna: Five Distinguished Scholars on the Krishna Movement in the West".

Vasu Murti has an article by Dr Cox on his site: “A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION”: Krishna Consciousness and the Judeo-Christian Tradition -
A Guide to Interfaith Discussion.