Secular Sangha: A Secular Buddhist Group discussion

Use this thread to discuss Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Reorienting Global Interdependence by D. Hershock Peter.

When I first opened this book and saw the table of contents I thought that each chapter could be read as a self-contained essay on an individual issue (like a textbook). I soon discovered that the book needs to be read cover to cover as a whole because each chapter contains concepts that build on one anther.

So, if you look at the table of contents and think that you are interested in just reading a chapter or two near the end that have titles that interest you I think you should resist the urge to skip over the earlier content.