Her path to religion was a theme that she often referenced in her novels.
Perhaps it's the exact moment when Kayam decides to end her story, in the midst of a question that we, as the audience, will never find an easy answer to; or maybe it's the way her film clearly deals with our shared humanity, yet finds the way there through a path of fundamentalism and religion, finally ending up perched high on a charged cultural landscape.
That led me down a path of discovering other religions and other philosophies, and eventually I came to the point where I'm at now—an atheist.
Now, she has taken an intimate look at those global fault lines in her new book, "The Tenth Parallel," a study of how followers of Islam and Christianity who live in the hot, hazy space between the equator and the tenth parallel are coming into conflict and shaping the paths of their religions.
That is, a more honest pluralistic perspective is to deny that the seemingly different salvific paths offered by various religious traditions are all just culturally distinct manifestations of the same fundamental path and maintain instead that salvific paths of various religions remain incompatible, but equally valid ways to achieve salvation.
For those that don't want to follow a path toward religion AA is a great path because of the structure.
It will, of course, require a sustained international campaign to eliminate the forces of jihad that pursue violence as a sanctified tool of religion and a path to redemption.
Feminist philosophy of religion should try to follow the path of desire to/for the divine, and forego the preoccupation with the rational justification of beliefs and the evaluation of truth-claims.
Their condemnation has grown so heated that this month, Bishop Daniel Jenky, of Peoria, Ill., said in a homily that President Obama was so intolerant of religion that he was "following a similar path" as Hitler and Stalin.
It is unlikely to follow France's path - the conservative People's party government recently introduced obligatory teaching of religion in secular state schools.
This does not, however, mean that there are substantially different paths to salvation, for as Kant so ardently protests through Part Four of Religion, it is not ritual observance or doctrinal profession that makes us well pleasing to God.
