Involvement in The Unification Movement
Bennett is one of a number of academics who have attended conferences sponsored by the Unification movement. U.T.S. has employed and continues to employ non-Unification faculty. Attendance at Unification sponsored meetings has taken Bennett as far a field as San Francisco for the Second Assembly of the World’s Religions (August 15 to 21, 1990), Istanbul for a Christian-Muslim colloquium (September, 1991), Berlin for a conference on religious freedom (May 29 – 31 1998 ), Israel (December, 2003) and South Korea on several occasions. At times he has been accompanied by his wife or son. He has consistently expressed the view that religious freedom is indivisible and that unless proven guilty of breaches in law, Unificationists and their founder have an absolute right to practice their religion. He has argued that working with the movement no more implies agreement with their beliefs than his work with Roman Catholics implies that he agrees with theirs. Bennett writes that ‘‘as a life long participant in Christian-Muslim dialogue, I have met through Rev. Moon’s movement some of the most influential Muslim thinkers in the world. This is because Rev. Moon has funded inter-religious dialogue when most church bodies concerned with inter-religious relations remain strapped for cash."
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