Religious Pluralism And Civil Society

Author : Wade Clark Roof
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131768363

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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 : W. Cole Durham, Jr.,Donlu D. Thayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Jan-Jonathan Bock,John Fahy,Samuel Everett
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion and sociology
ISBN : 1905622112

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Author : John May
Publisher : Coventry Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 064849778X

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Pluralism and Peace by John May Pdf

At a time when democracies are under pressure and authoritarian regimes are on the rise, the world's religions find themselves challenged in new and unfamiliar ways, with opportunities to co-operate in new ways. This book reflects on fifty years of debate about interreligious dialogue and pluralism in this new context. Are the religions with their exclusive beliefs part of the problem, or are they able to contribute - together - to maintaining human rights, overcoming economic inequality and preventing ecological destruction? The book shows how Buddhism, Christianity and Islam interact with very different social and political situations, and with one another as a potential for peace.

Author : Luis E. Lugo
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015049532867

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Religion, Pluralism, and Public Life by Luis E. Lugo Pdf

Abraham Kuyper's Christian vision of society, communicated in the famous Stone Lectures one hundred years ago, remains influential worldwide. In this volume an international cast of scholars reflects on Kuyper's social and political thought and its meaning for contemporary public life. These penetrating essays explore from an interdisciplinary perspective how a Christian worldview can help address the most pressing issues of twenty-first-century civilization -- religious pluralism, civil society, and globalization.

Author : Abdulaziz Sachedina
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195349900

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The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism by Abdulaziz Sachedina Pdf

This book tackles the most significant issues facing Muslims today. Sachedina argues that we must reopen the doors of religious interpretation--to correct false interpretations, replace outdated laws, and formulate new doctrines. His book critically analyzes Muslim teachings on such issues as pluralism, civil society, war and peace, and violence and self-sacrifice.

Author : Simone Chambers,Will Kymlicka
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691220130

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Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society by Simone Chambers,Will Kymlicka Pdf

The idea of civil society has long been central to the Western liberal-democratic tradition, where it has been seen as a crucial site for the development and pursuit of basic liberal values such as individual freedom, social pluralism, and democratic citizenship. This book considers how a host of other ethical traditions define civil society. Unlike most studies of the subject, which focus on a particular region or tradition, it considers a range of ethical traditions rarely addressed in one volume: libertarianism, critical theory, feminism, liberal egalitarianism, natural law, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Confucianism. It considers the extent to which these traditions agree or disagree on how to define civil society's limits and how to evaluate its benefits and harms. A variety of distinguished advocates and interpreters of these traditions present in-depth explorations of how these various traditions think of ethical pluralism within societies, asking how a society should respond to diversity among its members. Together they produce a work rich with original insights on a wide range of subjects about which little has been written to date. An excellent starting point for a comparative ethics of civil society, this book concludes that while the concept of civil society originated in the liberal tradition, it is quickly becoming an important focus for a truly cross-cultural dialogue. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Michael Banner, Hasan Hanafi, Loren E. Lomasky, Richard Madsen, Michael A. Mosher, Michael Pakaluk, Anne Philips, Adam B. Seligman, Suzanne Last Stone, and Michael Walzer.

Author : Juliana Finucane,R. Michael Feener
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,5 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.

Author : Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190293284

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Religion in Global Civil Society by Mark Juergensmeyer Pdf

The extraordinary changes in world society at the beginning of the 21st century have involved religion to a degree that would have amazed earlier observers of modernity. Within the past decade religion has been associated with some of the world's most strident forms of political encounter, including new movements of nationalism, the clerical leadership of political sects, and the religiously motivated acts of terrorism. Religion seems to be trying to tear the planet apart, even as other cultural forces seem to be trying to pull it together. The technology of the Internet, film, television, cell phones, and other forms of rapid universal communication seem to be knitting the world into a single social fabric. Consumer franchises and popular culture seem to be making the world a single global city. Religion seems to be at odds with all of this. Is religion the natural enemy of globalization? The essays in this volume explore the difficulties and possibilities of a diversity of religious groups occupying the same civil society. The authors avoid simplistic generalizations. Religion, they show, is not only identified with the culture and politics of the hostile anti-urban village--it is not simply the jihad that Benjamin Barber identified as the opponent of the homogenous global culture of McWorld. True, some religious activists have blown things up. But others have tried to smooth things over. Even the religious opposition to globalization is nuanced. Some violent activists (like Hindu extremists in India) want a new religious state. Others, like Christian militias or al Qaeda, envision a transnational religious entity--a kind of religious globalization to supplant the secular one. Prophetic religious voices call for moderation, justice, and environmental protection. Religion, these essays demonstrate, plays diverse and sometimes contradictory roles in the new cultural globalization. In a global culture the shared values of different religious traditions can provide a collective sense of virtuous conduct in public life. But religion can also support the position of enemies of global society--those who see in globalization the effort to impose the values and power of one country over the others.

Author : Douglas Farrow
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0773528342

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Recognizing Religion in a Secular Society by Douglas Farrow Pdf

Setting aside popular myths about secularism, this volume studies the perspectives of law, politics, religion, morality, and bioethics, reconfiguring the debate about religion and public life.

Author : Anna Körs,Wolfram Weisse,Jean-Paul Willaime
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030318567

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Religious Diversity and Interreligious Dialogue by Anna Körs,Wolfram Weisse,Jean-Paul Willaime Pdf

This edited volume offers solutions on the challenges of religious pluralisation from a European perspective. It gives special attention to interreligious dialogue and interfaith relations as specific means of dealing with plurality. In particular, the contributors describe innovative scientific approaches and broad political and social scopes of action for addressing the diversity of beliefs, practices, and traditions. In total, more than 25 essays bring together interdisciplinary and international research perspectives. The papers cover a wide thematic range. They highlight how religious pluralisation effects such fields as theology, politics, civil society, education, and communication/media. The contributors not only illustrate academic debates about religious diversity but they also look at the political and social scope for dealing with such. Coverage spans numerous countries, and beliefs, from Buddhism to Judaism. This book features presentations from the Herrenhausen Conference on "Religious Pluralisation - A Challenge for Modern Societies," held in Hanover, Germany, October 2016. This insightful collection will benefit students and researchers with an interest in religion and laicism, interreligious dialogue, governance of religious diversity, and religion in the public sphere.

Author : Subhadra Mitra Channa,Lancy Lobo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000855876

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Religious Pluralism in India by Subhadra Mitra Channa,Lancy Lobo Pdf

This volume explores the inherent pluralism of Hinduism through ethnographic and philosophical evidence as presented in the Journal of Anthropological Society of Bombay. The essays dated 1886–1936 represent a period that marked the emergence of a European-educated native intelligentsia with a rationalist outlook. The chapters cover a wide range of topics from Tree Worship in Mohenjo Daro, the origin of the Hindu Trimurti, interpretation of Avestic and Vedic Texts, to the second set of more localized chapters that cover the Muhammadan Castes of Bengal, the Tenets and Practices of a Certain Class of Faqirs in Bengal, the Theoretical History of the Goddess Yellamma, and much more. Written during a particular historical as well as intellectual period that reflected certain key patterns – a period just following the Bengal Renaissance of the nineteenth century that ushered in the ideologies of a reformative Hinduism – this volume highlights how religions of all denominations have influenced each other and appear to have mingled beliefs and practices from multiple sources. It shows how tolerance and inclusiveness along with syncretism have been part of India’s religious and social history. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of religions, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and sociology of religion. It will also be useful to those interested in inter-religious dialogues and civil society.

Author : Frances Hagopian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015078809152

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Religious Pluralism, Democracy, and the Catholic Church in Latin America by Frances Hagopian Pdf

The essays in this volume assess the ways in which the Catholic Church in Latin America is dealing with these political, religious, and social changes.

Author : K. S. Nathan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Democracy
ISBN : UCSD:31822034576173

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