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This volume focuses on the various phenomena of religious encounters in a transcultural society where religion or religious traditions play a significant role in a multi-cultural concept. Religious Encounters in Transcultural Society is divided into three parts: Islamic encounters with regional religions, East Asian religious encounters, and alternative religious encounters. This book evokes the fact that religious encounters exist in every transcultural society even though they often remain hidden behind socio-cultural issues. The situation can be changed, but one culture cannot harmoniously and always contain two or multi-beliefs. The issue of religious encounters mostly arises in the transnational process of religious globalization.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Tables and Figures
Introduction
Part One: Islamic Encounters
An Inter-Religious Perspective: The Dialogue of Islam within Abrahamic Religions in the 21st CenturyFarooq Hassan
Who is My Neighbour?: The Laïcité-Islam Encounter in FrancePauline C. H. Kollontai
The Cultural Muslim, Secularization and the Academic Study of IslamMilad Milani
Ummah vs Citizenship: Multi-religious Societies and the Question of Clash of Loyalties with Focus on Muslims of New ZealandMortaza Shams
Part Two: East Asian Religious Encounters
Chinese Tibetan Buddhists and the Confucian Revival in Contemporary ChinaJoshua Esler
Narrative Hybridity of Folk Daoism and National Religion: Religious Imagination in Early Twentieth Century Korean LiteratureSooyoun Kim
The Silk Letter: A Case of Transcultural Religious Conversion and ConflictKevin N. Cawley
Japanese Religions Outside of Japan: A Case Study of Tenrikyo Missionary Work in Congo and NepalMidori Horiuchi
Part Three: Alternative Religious Encounters
The Relevance and Limits of "Hybridization" Theory: The Case of Jubus, "Jewish-Buddhists"Lionel Obadia
A Sethian Religious Encounter: The Astrological Cosmology of an Egyptian Gnostic Community in Tchacos CodexDavid W. Kim
World Rastafarianism and Challenges to the Status of the Rasta WomenStephen D. Glazier
Deus and Shangti: Chinese Rites ControversyDaniel S. H. Ahn
Index
List of Contributions
About the author
Joshua Esler is a researcher and Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education and Director of the Indian Ocean Research Centre. He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Indo-Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia.Milad Milani is senior lecturer in religious studies at Western Sydney University, Australia.
Summary
This book examines the condition of religious organizations or teachings within a different culture where one or more indigenous religions are already present.
