Religious Minorities In Pluralist Societies

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004446816

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Religious Minorities in Pluralist Societies by Anonim Pdf

The accommodation of religious diversity in contemporary pluralist societies is undoubtedly amongst the most salient issues on today’s political agenda, not least due to the challenges posed by migration. A subject of considerable debate is how to reconcile the demands of religious and cultural diversity alongside political unity, that is, how to create a political community that is cohesive and stable and satisfies the legitimate aspirations of minorities. This volume provides a critical analysis of the institutional accommodations and legal frameworks conceived by and/or for historical religious groups and assesses their potential and shortcomings in providing for an integrated society based on human- and minority rights protection.

Author : Richard J. Moon
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780774858533

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Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada by Richard J. Moon Pdf

Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada seeks to elucidate the complex and often uneasy relationship between law and religion in democracies committed both to equal citizenship and religious pluralism. Leading socio-legal scholars consider the role of religious values in public decision making, government support for religious practices, and the restriction and accommodation by government of minority religious practices. They examine such current issues as the legal recognition of sharia arbitration, the re-definition of civil marriage, and the accommodation of religious practice in the public sphere.

Author : K. S. Nathan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Democracy
ISBN : UCSD:31822034576173

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Religious Pluralism in Democratic Societies by K. S. Nathan Pdf

Author : Francisco Colom Gonzalez,Gianni D'Amato
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781315407562

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Multireligious Society by Francisco Colom Gonzalez,Gianni D'Amato Pdf

With the theory of secularization increasingly contested as a plausible development at a global scale, this book focuses on the changing significance of the religious element within a context of complex diversity. This concept reflects the rationale behind the deep transformations that have taken place in the dynamics of social change, giving way to a recombination of social, political and cultural cleavages that overlap and compete for legitimacy at a national and supranational level. Far from disappearing with modernization, new forms of religious diversity have emerged that continue to demand specific policies from the state, putting pressure on the established practices of religious governance while creating a series of normative dilemmas. European societies have been a testing ground for many of these changes, but for decades Canada has been viewed as a pioneering country in the management of diversity, thus offering some interesting similarities and contrasts with the former. Accordingly, the book deals with the diverging routes that political secularization has followed in Europe and Canada, the patterns of religious governance that can be recognized in each region, and the practices for accommodating the demands of religious minorities concerning their legal regulation, the management of public institutions, and the provision of social services.

Author : Giuseppe Giordan,Enzo Pace
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319066233

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Religious Pluralism by Giuseppe Giordan,Enzo Pace Pdf

This volume illustrates both theoretically and empirically the differences between religious diversity and religious pluralism. It highlights how the factual situation of cultural and religious diversity may lead to individual, social and political choices of organized and recognized pluralism. In the process, both individual and collective identities are redefined, incessantly moving along the continuum that ranges from exclusion to inclusion. The book starts by first detailing general issues related to religious pluralism. It makes the case for keeping the empirical, the normative, the regulatory and the interactive dimensions of religious pluralism analytically distinct while recognizing that, in practice, they often overlap. It also underlines the importance of seeking connections between religious pluralism and other pluralisms. Next, the book explores how religious diversity can operate to contribute to legal pluralism and examines the different types of church-state relations: eradication, monopoly, oligopoly and pluralism. The second half of the book features case studies that provide a more specific look at the general issues, from ways to map and assess the religious diversity of a whole country to a comparison between Belgian-French views of religious and philosophical diversity, from religious pluralism in Italy to the shifting approach to ethnic and religious diversity in America, and from a sociological and historical perspective of religious plurality in Japan to an exploration of Brazilian religions, old and new. The transition from religious diversity to religious pluralism is one of the most important challenges that will reshape the role of religion in contemporary society. This book provides readers with insights that will help them better understand and interpret this unprecedented transition.

Author : W. Cole Durham, Jr.,Donlu D. Thayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317067207

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Religion, Pluralism, and Reconciling Difference by W. Cole Durham, Jr.,Donlu D. Thayer Pdf

We live in an increasingly pluralized world. This sociological reality has become the irreversible destiny of humankind. Even once religiously homogeneous societies are becoming increasingly diverse. Religious freedom is modernity’s most profound if sometimes forgotten answer to the resulting social pressures, but the tide of pluralization threatens to overwhelm that freedom’s stabilizing force. Religion, Pluralism, and Reconciling Difference is aimed at exploring differing ways of grappling with the resulting tensions, and then asking, will the tensions ultimately yield poisonous polarization that erodes all hope of meaningful community? Or can the tradition and the institutions protecting freedom of religion or belief be developed and applied in ways that (still) foster productive interactions, stability, and peace? This volume brings together vital and thoughtful contributions treating aspects of these mounting worldwide tensions concerning the relationship between religious diversity and social harmony. The first section explores controversies surrounding religious pluralism from different starting points, including religious, political, and legal standpoints. The second section examines different geographical perspectives on pluralism. Experts from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East address these issues and suggest not only how social institutions can reduce tensions, but also how religious pluralism itself can bolster needed civil society.

Author : Wade Clark Roof
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Platvoet,Toorn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004378896

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Pluralism and Identity by Platvoet,Toorn Pdf

The subject of this book is ritual behaviour, in particular of groups with a distinctive religious, ethnic or other identity which use rituals to pursue strategic ends ad intra and ad extra. Five essays offer theoretical perspectives on ritual in plural and pluralist societies, on similarity and demarcation, on the negative case of the Australian Aboriginals, on Brazilian religious pluralism, and on Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands. Three essays describe the ritualization of the encounter, or confrontation, between religions in India (between Buddhists and Hindus, and between Hindus and Muslims), and in Yemen between Muslims and Jews. Four essays study the responses to internal religious plurality, in early Israel, on Java, in Indonesia, and in Spain and North Africa. One essay explores responses to external religious plurality. In the epilogue, the social nature of pluralism and identity is highlighted.

Author : Stefan Schreiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Abrahamic religions
ISBN : 300033176X

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"We All are Minorities-a Plea for Pluralism" by Stefan Schreiner Pdf

Author : Richard Bonney,David J. B. Trim
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 3039105701

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Persecution and Pluralism by Richard Bonney,David J. B. Trim Pdf

With one exception, the papers collected here were first presented at a conference sponsored by the British Academy held at Newbold College, Berkshire, in 1999. This volume provides a historical perspective to the emerging literature on pluralism. A range of experts examine how Calvinists in early modern France, England, Hungary and the Netherlands related to members of other faith communities and to society in general. The essays explore the importance of Calvinists' separateness and potent sense of identity. To what extent did this enable them to survive persecution? Did it at times actually induce repression? Where Calvinists held political power, why did they often turn from persecuted into persecutors? How did they relate to (Ana)Baptists, Quakers and Catholics, for example? The conventional wisdom that toleration (and, in consequence, pluralism) resulted from a waning in religious zeal is queried and alternative explanations considered. Finally, the concept of 'pluralism' itself is investigated.

Author : Richard Clogg
Publisher : C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015052674192

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Minorities in Greece by Richard Clogg Pdf

Author : Anh Nga Longva,Anne Sofie Roald
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004207424

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Religious Minorities in the Middle East by Anh Nga Longva,Anne Sofie Roald Pdf

Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary perspective.

Author : David Maybury-Lewis,American Ethnological Society
Publisher : Washington, DC : American Ethnological Society
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023362606

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The Prospects for Plural Societies by David Maybury-Lewis,American Ethnological Society Pdf

Author : Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez,Robert Dunbar
Publisher : Universidad de Deusto
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788498307924

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Human Rights and Diversity: New Challenges for Plural Societies by Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez,Robert Dunbar Pdf

The democratic management of cultural diversity is the greatest political challenge for present-day European societies. The plural character of our societies forces us to rethink the basic political concepts, starting off from a new idea of inclusive and plural d¬emocracy. The application of human rights must be reconsidered in the light of presentday reality so that democratic states are able to guarantee the benefi t of these rights to all persons through their identity and not in spite of it, thus creating political spaces that are open to a multi-identity coexistence.

Author : R. D. Grillo
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191522239

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Pluralism and the Politics of Difference by R. D. Grillo Pdf

Is a plural, polyethnic, democratic society possible? Starting with Ernest Gellner's observation that `culturally plural societies worked well in the past', but `genuine cultural pluralism ceases to be viable under current conditions', this study explores pluralism in three settings; early states, modern industrial societies, and the contemporary `postmodern' world. Through a nuanced discussion ranging from pre-colonial Africa and Mesoamerica, to European and American experiences in the twentieth century, Grillo explores the ways in which different social and political forms cope with ethnic and cultural diversity. The study uncovers a range of different kinds of pluralism, from out-and-out separatism, through varieties of multiculturalism, to looser forms of `hybridity'. Rather than advocating one configuration over another, this important new book outlines the range of choices facing our societies as, moving into the twenty-first century, we try to reconcile the competing demands of universalism and difference.