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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.
List of contents
1. Emergent Religious Pluralisms: Ideas and Realities in a Changing World; Jan-Jonathan Bock & John Fahy. - 2. Islamic Cosmopolitanism: Muslim Minorities and Religious Pluralism in North America and Europe; Carl Morris. - 3. The Boundaries of Religious Pluralism; Zahedda P. Alibhai. - 4. Writing in Palimpsests: Performative Acts and Tactics in Everyday Life of Chinese Muslims; Jing Wang. - 5. Religious Pluralism, Interfaith Dialogue and Postwar Lebanon; Stacey Gutkowski, Craig Larkin & Ana Maria Daou. - 6. Toward Muslim Pluralism: Dialogue and Discord in Contemporary Sri Lanka; Harun Rasiah. - 7. Uncovering Neglected Emerging Lived Religious Pluralisms; Douglas Giles. - 8. Increasing Plurality and Neglected Pluralism: Religious Diversity in the Suburbs of Rome; Valeria Fabretti, Maria Chiara Giorda & Piero Vereni. - 9. Turning the Kaleidoscope and Religious Pluralism Inside-out: The Case of Berlin's Jewish Scene; Vanessa Rau. - 10. 'Religion Is like Tofu, It Takes on the Flavour of Whatever It's Cooked In': Religious Citizenship and Pluralism Shaping Lived Religion Within an American Women's Mosque; Anna Piela. - 11. Preaching to the Converted?: Interfaith Dialogue vs. Interfaith Realities; Sarah L. Markiewicz. - 12. Climate Change and Global Religious Pluralism; Evan Berry. - 13. Afterword: A Plural Century?; Nasar Meer and Samuel Everett.
About the author
Jan-Jonathan Bock is Programme Director of Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, UK.
John Fahy is Research Affiliate at the Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.
Samuel Everett is Research Associate at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, UK.
