Emergent Religious Pluralisms

Author : Jan-Jonathan Bock,John Fahy,Samuel Everett
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030138110

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Emergent Religious Pluralisms by Jan-Jonathan Bock,John Fahy,Samuel Everett Pdf

In a rapidly changing world, in which religious identities emerge as crucial fault lines in political and public discourse, this volume brings together multiple disciplinary perspectives in order to investigate shifting conceptions of, and commitments to, the ideals of religious pluralism. Spanning theology, sociology, politics and anthropology, the chapters explore various approaches to coexistence, political visions of managing diversity and lived experiences of multireligiosity, in order to examine how modes of religious pluralism are being constructed and contested in different parts of the world. Contributing authors analyse challenges to religious pluralism, as well as innovative kinds of conviviality, that produce meaningful engagements with diversity and shared community life across different social, political and economic settings. This book will be relevant to scholars of religion, community life, social change and politics, and will also be of interest to civil society organisations, NGOs, international agencies and local, regional and national policymakers.

Author : Thomas Robbins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351513067

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In Gods We Trust by Thomas Robbins Pdf

Much has changed since publication of the first edition of this established text in the sociology of religion. Revised and expanded, this edition emphasizes new patterns of religious change and conflict emerging in the United States in the latter part of the twentieth century. Leading scholars describe and analyze developments in five main areas: The fundamentalist and evangelical revival; challenge and renewal in mainline churches; spiritual innovation and the so-called New Age; women's movements and issues and their impact; and politics and civil religion. Chapters include an examination of religious movements' responses to AIDS; Christian schools; quasi-religions; healing rites and goddess worship; recruitment of women to charismatic and Hassidic groups,; televangelists and the Christian Right; racist rural populism; contemporary Mormonism and its growth; cults and brainwashing; Jonestown; dissidence in the Catholic church; and trance-channeling, among other topics. A new introductory chapter by the editors establishes an integrating framework in terms of three themes: increasing conflict and controversy associated with American religion; increasing focus on various forms of power in American religion; and challenges to models of secularization and modernization inherent in religious revival, innovation, and politicization. A concluding chapter by the editors looks at new trends and assesses their possible impact in coming years. Like its predecessor, this outstanding collection is a significant contribution to the literature as well as a valuable resource for the classroom.

Author : Tsypylma Darieva,Florian Mühlfried,Kevin Tuite
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781785337833

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Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces by Tsypylma Darieva,Florian Mühlfried,Kevin Tuite Pdf

Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with religious conviviality. Based on fresh ethnographies in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Russian Federation, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus. In exploring the effects of de-secularization, growing institutional control over hybrid sacred sites, and attempts to review social boundaries between the religious and the secular, these essays give way to an emergent Caucasus viewed from the ground up: dynamic, continually remaking itself, within shifting and indefinite frontiers.

Author : Wade Clark Roof
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X030268253

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Religious Pluralism and Civil Society by Wade Clark Roof Pdf

Organized into three major topics, the articles in this volume delve into this urgent topic of our day and offer valuable insights in the following areas: I. Broad Perspectives – Providing a solid foundation, this opening section lays the groundwork for clarifying this complex issue. II. Region and Religion – The papers in this section point to the importance of regional history and culture in shaping differing styles of pluralism within America. III. Minority & Immigrant Experiences – Focusing on contemporary immigrant and minority groups in the United States, these articles reflect on the experiences of Muslims, Orthodox Jews, and Latino religions as well as the role of interfaith leaders in the 2005/2006 immigration reform debate. IV. Institutional Patterns – Examining creative ways that pluralism is flourishing within the United States, these articles provide a framework for future interfaith dialog. Social scientists, religious scholars, policy makers, and the informed public will find this volume of The ANNALS to be a valuable resource that distills this complex and sometimes cloudy issue of religious pluralism.

Author : Ray S. Anderson
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830874385

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An Emergent Theology for Emerging Churches by Ray S. Anderson Pdf

If the emerging church movement is looking for a theology, Ray Anderson offers clear and relevant theological guidance for it in this timely book. Reaching back through time, Anderson roots an emergent theology in what happened at Antioch, where Saul (Paul) and Barnabas were set apart for a mission to establish churches outside of Jerusalem--among Gentiles who had to be reached in their own cultures. He shows how the Lord Holy Spirit himself revolutionized and inspired how the message of salvation was offered to others, and provided a model to follow. Explaining that an emergent theology is messianic, revelational, kingdom-coming and eschatological, this book adresses many of the concerns of those looking for a church that is contemporary, yet true to the gospel. If you wrestle with the challenges that face the church in these "postmodern" days, you will benefit from this book.

Author : Paul F. Knitter
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608332069

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The Myth of Religious Superiority by Paul F. Knitter Pdf

In this challenging book, the leading exponents of the idea that all religions are a refraction of a truth no single tradition can exclusively reveal discuss what to make of that conviction in today's world of interreligious rivalry and strife. The authors represent a variety of faith traditions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam.

Author : Stephanie Rocke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000620573

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The Politicized Concert Mass (1967-2007) by Stephanie Rocke Pdf

Since the transformative 1960s, concert masses have incorporated a range of political and religious views that mirror their socio-cultural context. Those of the long 1960s (c1958-1975) reflect non-conformism and social activism; those of the 1980s, environmentalism; those of the 1990s, universalism; and those of the 2000s, cultural pluralism. Despite utilizing a format with its roots in the Roman Catholic liturgy, many of these politicized concert masses also reflect the increasing religious diversification of Western societies. By introducing non-Catholic and often non-Christian beliefs into masses that also remain respectful of Christian tradition, composers in the later twentieth century have employed the genre to promote a conciliatory way of being that promotes the value of heterogeneity and reinforces the need to protect the diversity of musics, species and spiritualities that enrich life. In combining the political with the religious, the case studies presented pose challenges for both supporters and detractors of the secularization paradigm. Overarchingly, they demonstrate that any binary division that separates life into either the religious or the secular and promotes one over the other denies the complexity of lived experience and constitutes a diminution of what it is to be human.

Author : Hans Gustafson
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506486956

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Everyday Wisdom by Hans Gustafson Pdf

Over the last decade, interreligious and interfaith studies have flourished in religion and theology departments, emphasizing the value of religious literacy for professional, vocational, and civic leadership. Everyday Wisdom offers an accessible introduction with an emphasis on lived religion, interreligious studies, and interfaith engagement and leadership. Hans Gustafson first explores the study of religion and interreligious studies, including the complexity and dynamism of religious identity, the global religious landscape, lived-religion approaches to the study of religion, and (inter)religious literacy. He then examines the relationship between the academic field of interreligious studies and the civic project of interfaith engagement. Focusing on interreligious studies, he explores various responses to religious diversity, while welcoming the role of secular and pluralist forces in religiously diverse societies. Gustafson introduces the dominant theological modes of approach to other religious traditions and to interreligious theological encounter, and examines the vital experience of human relationship across religious difference for inter- and intra-personal and purpose development, changemaking, and leadership. By holistically tying together several of the ultimate aims and common learning objectives of interreligious-studies courses, Gustafson proposes a framework, based on practical wisdom, for interreligious studies and interfaith leadership. Everyday Wisdom aims to be a core text in undergraduate and graduate courses in the fast-emerging field of interreligious and interfaith studies, as well as for the wider context of the study of religion and leadership.

Author : Gavin D'Costa
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0631145184

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Theology and Religious Pluralism by Gavin D'Costa Pdf

Author : John D'Arcy May
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015041799696

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Pluralism and the Religions by John D'Arcy May Pdf

In these essays by Asian and European theologians, a new approach to pluralism is offered, dealing with such topics as poverty, the arms race, and the feminist and ecological movements.

Author : Peter C. Phan,Jonathan Ray
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620329436

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Understanding Religious Pluralism by Peter C. Phan,Jonathan Ray Pdf

Our contemporary world is fast becoming religiously diverse in a variety of ways. Thanks to globalization and migration, to mention only two current worldwide trends, people of diverse and sometimes mutually hostile faiths are now sharing neighborhoods and encountering one another's religious traditions on a daily basis. For scholars in religious studies and theology the issue to be examined is whether religious diversity is merely the result of historical development and social interaction, or whether it is inherent in the object of belief--part of the very structure of faith and our attempts to understand and express it. The essays in this volume range from explorations of the impact of religious diversity on religious studies to examples of interfaith encounter and dialogue, and current debates on Christian theology of religion. These essays examine not only the theoretical issues posed by religious pluralism to the study of religion and Christian theology but also concrete cases in which religious pluralism has been a bone of contention. Together, they open up new vistas for further conversation on the nature and development of religious pluralism.

Author : Michael Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:39000004634056

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Christian Identity & Religious Pluralism by Michael Barnes Pdf

Author : Thomas Banchoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199886623

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Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics by Thomas Banchoff Pdf

Globalization has spawned more active transnational religious communities, creating a powerful force in world affairs. Religious Pluralism, Globalization and World Politics, an incisive new collection of essays, explores the patterns of cooperation and conflict that mark this new religious pluralism. Shifting religious identities have encouraged interreligious dialogue and greater political engagement around global challenges including international development, conflict resolution, transitional justice, and bioethics. At the same time, interreligious competition has contributed to political conflict and running controversy over the meaning and scope of religious freedom. In this volume, leading scholars from a variety of disciplines examine how the forces of religious pluralism and globalization are playing out on the world stage.

Author : Jyri Komulainen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004138933

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An Emerging Cosmotheandric Religion? by Jyri Komulainen Pdf

This study gives a detailed analysis of the theology of religions of Raimon Panikkar (b. 1918), a Catalan-born Hindu-Christian. His radical pluralism is found to be based on his idiosyncratic "cosmotheandrism," and even to show signs of inclusivism.

Author : Juliana Finucane,R. Michael Feener
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789814451185

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Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Asia by Juliana Finucane,R. Michael Feener Pdf

This volume brings together a range of critical studies that explore diverse ways in which processes of globalization pose new challenges and offer new opportunities for religious groups to propagate their beliefs in contemporary Asian contexts. Proselytizing tests the limits of religious pluralism, as it is a practice that exists on the border of tolerance and intolerance. The practice of proselytizing presupposes not only that people are freely-choosing agents and that religion itself is an issue of individual preference. At the same time, however, it also raises fraught questions about belonging to particular communities and heightens the moral stakes in involved in such choices. In many contemporary Asian societies, questions about the limits of acceptable proselytic behavior have taken on added urgency in the current era of globalization. Recognizing this, the studies brought together here serve to develop our understandings of current developments as it critically explores the complex ways in which contemporary contexts of religious pluralism in Asia both enable, and are threatened by, projects of proselytization.