Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously

Author : Barbara A. McGraw,Jo Renee Formicola
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion and politics
ISBN : 9781932792331

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Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously by Barbara A. McGraw,Jo Renee Formicola Pdf

The clash between the religious right and the secular left undermines any serious debate about the role of religion in American public life. Such strident cultural rhetoric often ignores the positive contributions of America's many religions. By contrast, this volume celebrates America's religious diversity, demonstrating that religious pluralism is actually one of democracy's basic building blocks. Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously expands on Barbara A. McGraw's framework for understanding religious participation in public life--a two-tiered public forum, consisting of the civic public forum and the conscientious public forum. The chapters explore how diverse religious communities and traditions, including "newer" and marginalized religions, can make a meaningful contribution to American society and politics.

Author : Barbara A. McGraw
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791486955

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Rediscovering America's Sacred Ground by Barbara A. McGraw Pdf

Returning to the ideas of John Locke and the Founders themselves, Barbara A. McGraw examines the debate about the role of religion in American public life and unravels the confounded rhetoric on all sides. She reveals that no group has been standing on proper ground and that all sides have misused terminology (religion/secular), dichotomies (public/private), and concepts (separation of church and state) in ways that have little relevance to the original intentions of the Founders. She rediscovers a theology underlying the founding documents of the nation that is neither anyone's particular religion nor one requiring religion. Instead, it justifies freedom of conscience for all and provides a two-tiered public forum—a civic public forum and a conscientious public forum—for the debate itself and the actions that debate inspires. America's Sacred Ground—this theology and its public forum—determines the meaning of freedom and the ways in which Americans can pursue "the good": good government, good communities, good families, good relations between individuals, and good individuals from a plurality of perspectives. By exploring our past, McGraw answers the critical question, Who are we as a people and what do we stand for?

Author : Teemu Taira
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004511682

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Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion by Teemu Taira Pdf

Drawing on examples from judicial processes, media discourses, and scholarly debates related to Wiccans, Druids, and Jedi knights, among others, this book examines how social actors negotiate what counts as “religion” and argues for the relevance of the discursive study of religion.

Author : Barbara A. McGraw
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780470657331

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S. by Barbara A. McGraw Pdf

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S. provides a broad, inclusive, and rich range of chapters, in the study of religion and politics. Arranged in their historical context, chapters address themes of history, law, social and religious movements, policy and political theory. Broadens the parameters of this timely subject, and includes the latest work in the field Draws together newly-commissioned essays by distinguished authors that are cogent for scholars, while also being in a style that is accessible to students. Provides a balanced and inclusive approach to religion and politics in the U.S. Engages diverse perspectives from various discourses about religion and politics across the political and disciplinary spectra, while placing them in their larger historical context

Author : Vincent Biondo,Andrew Fiala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135080167

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Civility, Religious Pluralism and Education by Vincent Biondo,Andrew Fiala Pdf

This book focuses on the problem of religious diversity, civil dialogue, and religion education in public schools, exploring the ways in which atheists, secularists, fundamentalists, and mainstream religionists come together in the public sphere, examining how civil discourse about religion fit swithin the ideals of the American political and pedagogical systems and how religious studies education can help to foster civility and toleration.

Author : Warren E. Steinkraus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004495197

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Taking Religious Claims Seriously by Warren E. Steinkraus Pdf

Taking Religious Claims Seriously is a systematic, critical, and comprehensive study of the fundamental questions of the philosophy of religion: religious experience, the existence and nature of God, religious knowledge and truth, good and evil, immortality of the soul, religious diversity, religious claims about the person, faith, and the religious way of life. In this study the author seeks to capture the reality and meaning of the religious as such: What is the foundation of religion? Under what conditions is an authentic religious way of life possible? His method of inquiry is phenomenological. The author begins his discussion with a general characterization of the basic features of all the literate and illiterate religions of the world. He then identifies the ideas, beliefs, and concerns which are common to these religions: What are the central claims of these religions? How did the various religions understand these claims? The author makes a serious attempt to clarify these claims and explore the possibility for a reconcilation between them. For him, the foundation of religion is the religious experience, and the essence of this experience consists in a serious, cognitive, and meaningful encounter with the Ultimate Being. This being is the ground of the world and human life. This book is a comparative, pluralistic study of the philosophy of religion.

Author : John Allan Knight,Ian S. Markham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781119601555

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The Craft of Innovative Theology by John Allan Knight,Ian S. Markham Pdf

A comprehensive collection of resources showing students of theology how to prepare and write creative research-oriented material The Craft of Innovative Theology: Argument and Process delivers a thorough examination of the method of producing and writing creative theological theses and projects, explaining to students how to write elegant, innovative research-oriented articles. Through a collection of papers written by distinguished scholars, the text exhibits numerous examples of well-executed creative writing on topics as varied as theodicy and evolution, and artificial intelligence and baptism. Each article includes an introduction by the editor that serves to guide the student through the material and elucidates what makes the work stand out as exceptional. The articles are also annotated to assist with the appreciation of the methodology and style used by the author. The Craft of Innovative Theology assists theology students in improving their research writing to a point where they’ll be ready for a Masters’ thesis or PhD dissertation, and is an excellent resource for a research methods course in a graduate program. The works incorporated by the editors include: A thorough introduction to God and the Incarnation, including knowing God through religious pluralism An exploration of God and church, including racial stigma and the southern Baptist public discourse in the twentieth century, and the appropriateness of baptizing artificial intelligence A discussion of God and the world, including where humanity has come from and where we’re going, and the challenges posed by biological evolution to Christian theology A treatment of God and ethics, including sin and the faces of responsibility Perfect for students of postgraduate theology and research methods courses, The Craft of Innovative Theology: Argument and Process will also earn a place in the libraries of students in courses that prepare them to write a Masters’ thesis in theology or to begin shaping their PhD dissertation topic.

Author : E. Allen Richardson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780786457274

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Strangers in This Land by E. Allen Richardson Pdf

This updated, revised version of the important 1988 first edition ("must reading for anyone seriously probing religious pluralism in our society"--Theology Today) examines the complex relationship between American ideals and increasing religious diversity. In the past two decades, American religion has become more pluralistic and the central dynamic of welcoming versus rejecting religious diversity is even more prominent and nuanced. Explored here are two competing visions of the American Dream as it relates to religion: America as a pluralistic society shaped by its diversity, and America as an assimilative society in which people of all backgrounds become "American."

Author : Jeremy A. Evans,Daniel Heimbach
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433671821

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Taking Christian Moral Thought Seriously by Jeremy A. Evans,Daniel Heimbach Pdf

Christian scholars make a clear case for the legitimacy of religious beliefs in the marketplace of ideas, addressing the theory of public reason, voting in America, environmentalism, abortion, education, and more.

Author : Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan,MD Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan,Carla M. Zoethout
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004504967

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Freedom of Religion and Religious Pluralism by Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan,MD Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan,Carla M. Zoethout Pdf

"This book brings together a variety of religious and non-religious perspectives on religious pluralism. It explores the key philosophical and legal issues associated with religious freedom and social harmony"--

Author : Schmidt-Leukel, Perry
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608336951

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Religious Pluralism and Interreligious Theology by Schmidt-Leukel, Perry Pdf

Author : Rita M. Gross
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620324097

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Religious Diversity--What's the Problem? by Rita M. Gross Pdf

Once upon a time, on grounds of both religion and common sense, people assumed that the earth was flat and that the sun literally rose and set each day. When newly developing knowledge made those beliefs untenable, giving them up was difficult. Today the belief that only one of the world's various religions is true for all people on earth is equivalent to the belief in a flat earth. Both notions have become untenable, given contemporary knowledge about religion. Even though many people are still troubled by the existence of religious diversity today, that diversity is a fact of life. Religious diversity should be no more troubling to religious people than the fact that the earth is round and circles the sun. This provocative book, based on the author's longtime practice of Buddhism and comparative study of religion, provides tools with which one can truly appreciate religious diversity as a gift and resource rather than as a deficiency or a problem to be overcome. After we accept diversity as inevitable and become comfortable with it, diversity always enriches life--both nature and culture.

Author : Isaac Weiner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814708262

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Religion Out Loud by Isaac Weiner Pdf

For six months in 2004, controversy raged in Hamtramck, Michigan, as residents debated a proposed amendment that would exempt the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, from the city’s anti-noise ordinance. The call to prayer functioned as a flashpoint in disputes about the integration of Muslims into this historically Polish-Catholic community. No one openly contested Muslims’ right to worship in their mosques, but many neighbors framed their resistance around what they regarded as the inappropriate public pronouncement of Islamic presence, an announcement that audibly intruded upon their public space. Throughout U.S. history, complaints about religion as noise have proven useful both for restraining religious dissent and for circumscribing religion’s boundaries more generally. At the same time, religious individuals and groups rarely have kept quiet. They have insisted on their right to practice religion out loud, implicitly advancing alternative understandings of religion and its place in the modern world. In Religion Out Loud, Isaac Weiner takes such sonic disputes seriously. Weaving the story of religious “noise” through multiple historical eras and diverse religious communities, he convincingly demonstrates that religious pluralism has never been solely a matter of competing values, truth claims, or moral doctrines, but of different styles of public practice, of fundamentally different ways of using body and space—and that these differences ultimately have expressed very different conceptions of religion itself. Weiner’s innovative work encourages scholars to pay much greater attention to the publicly contested sensory cultures of American religious life.

Author : F. Petito,P. Hatzopoulos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403982360

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Religion in International Relations by F. Petito,P. Hatzopoulos Pdf

Are the secular foundations of international relations sustainable at present? This comprehensive study shows how the global resurgence of religion confronts international relations theory with a theoretical challenge comparable to that raised by the end of the Cold War or the emergence of globalization. The volume tries to shake the secular foundational myths of the discipline and outline the need for an expansion into religiously inspired spheres of thought. It also challenges the most condemning accusation against religion: the view that the politicization of religion is always a threat to security and inimical to the resolution of conflict. Finally, the task of demystifying religion is taken further with an argument for a stronger and "progressive" political engagement of the worldwide religious traditions in the contemporary globalized era.

Author : Rowan Williams
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9781565644366

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Islam, Christianity and Pluralism by Rowan Williams Pdf

Islam’s brilliant contributions to science, art, and culture, are a timeless and precious heritage, which should be historically preserved for future generations. The great achievements of Muslim scholars are rarely if at all acknowledged in formal education, and today their identity, origins and impact remain largely obscure. This collection of papers aims to give readers a brief introduction to the intellectual history of Muslims and the contributions that eminent Muslim scholars have made in certain specific fields of knowledge including basic and applied physical and biological sciences, medicine, legal and political theories and practices, economic and financial concepts, models, and institutions, etc. The preservation of civilization necessitates a better understanding, sharing, and recognition of our common human heritage. Given today’s widespread negative stereotyping and falsely generated misunderstanding of Islam and Muslims, the publication of these papers on “Muslim Contributions to World Civilization” is vital to help repair the wrong that is being perpetrated and restore the historical truth, which is being distorted.