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This book examines the condition of religious organizations or teachings within a different culture where one or more indigenous religions are already present.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Tables and Figures
Introduction
Part One: Islamic Encounters
1.An Inter-Religious Perspective: The Dialogue of Islam within Abrahamic Religions in the 21st Century
Farooq Hassan
2.Who is My Neighbour?: The Laïcité-Islam Encounter in France
Pauline C. H. Kollontai
3.The Cultural Muslim, Secularization and the Academic Study of Islam
Milad Milani
4.Ummah vs Citizenship: Multi-religious Societies and the Question of Clash of Loyalties with Focus on Muslims of New Zealand
Mortaza Shams
Part Two: East Asian Religious Encounters
5.Chinese Tibetan Buddhists and the Confucian Revival in Contemporary China
Joshua Esler
6.Narrative Hybridity of Folk Daoism and National Religion: Religious Imagination in Early Twentieth Century Korean Literature
Sooyoun Kim
7.The Silk Letter: A Case of Transcultural Religious Conversion and Conflict
Kevin N. Cawley
8.Japanese Religions Outside of Japan: A Case Study of Tenrikyo Missionary Work in Congo and Nepal
Midori Horiuchi
Part Three: Alternative Religious Encounters
9.The Relevance and Limits of "Hybridization" Theory: The Case of Jubus, "Jewish-Buddhists"
Lionel Obadia
10.A Sethian Religious Encounter: The Astrological Cosmology of an Egyptian Gnostic Community in Tchacos Codex
David W. Kim
11.World Rastafarianism and Challenges to the Status of the Rasta Women
Stephen D. Glazier
12.Deus and Shangti: Chinese Rites Controversy
Daniel S. H. Ahn
Index
List of Contributions
About the author
David William Kim is visiting fellow at the Department of Political and Social Change, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University.
Summary
This book examines the condition of religious organizations or teachings within a different culture where one or more indigenous religions are already present.
