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America and the challenges of religious diversity
Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and adherents of other non-Western religions have become a significant presence in the United States in recent years. Yet many Americans continue to regard the United States as a Christian society. How are we adapting to the new diversity? Do we casually announce that we \"respect\" the faiths of non-Christians without understanding much about those faiths? Are we willing to do the hard work required to achieve genuine religious pluralism?
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Understanding Religion
A cutting-edge introduction to contemporary religious
studies theory, connecting theory to data. This innovative
coursebook introduces students to interdisciplinary theoretical
tools for understanding contemporary religiously diverse
societies-both Western and non-Western. Using a case-study model,
the text considers:
A wide and diverse array of contemporary issues, questions, and
critical approaches to the study of religion relevant to students
and scholars
A variety of theoretical approaches, including decolonial,
feminist, hermeneutical, poststructuralist, and phenomenological
analyses
Current debates on whether the term \"religion\" is
meaningful
Many key issues about the study of religion, including the
insider-outsider debate, material religion, and lived religion
Plural and religiously diverse societies, including the
theological ideas of traditions and the political and social
questions that arise for those living alongside adherents of other
religions
Understanding Religion is designed to provide a strong
foundation for instructors to explore the ideas presented in each
chapter in multiple ways, engage students in meaningful activities
in the classroom, and integrate additional material into their
lectures. Students will gain the tools to apply specific methods
from a variety of disciplines to analyze the social, political,
spiritual, and cultural aspects of religions. Its unique
pedagogical design means it can be used from undergraduate- to
postgraduate-level courses.
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Multiculturalism and religious identity : Canada and India
How, and to what extent, can religion be included within commitments to multiculturalism? Multiculturalism and Religious Identity addresses this question by examining the political recognition and management of religious identity in Canada and India. In multicultural policy, practice, and literature, religion has until recently not been included within broader discussions of multiculturalism, perhaps due to worries of potential for conflict with secularism. This collection undertakes a contemporary analysis of how the Canadian and Indian states each approach religious diversity through social and political policies, as well as how religion and secularism meet both philosophically and politically in contested public space. Although Canada and India have differing political and religious histories - leading to different articulations of multiculturalism, religious diversity, and secularism - both countries share a commitment to ensuring fair treatment for the different religious communities they include. Combining broader theoretical and normative reflections with close case studies, Multiculturalism and Religious Identity leads the way to addressing these timely issues in the Canadian and Indian contexts. --Provided by publisher.
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Utopias in Conflict
This compact, incisive study by a senior scholar explores two
sources of violent conflict in India: religion and nationalism.
Showing how the political aspects of religion and the ideological
character of nationalism have led inexorably to struggle, Ainslie
T. Embree argues that the tension between competing visions of the
just society has determined the social and political life of India.
In India, as elsewhere in the world at the end of the twentieth
century, religions legitimized violence as people struggled for
what they regarded as their legitimate claims upon the future. As
examples of the tension between religious and nationalist visions
of the good society, Embree examines two explosive cases-one
involving Muslim-Hindu communal encounters, the other, the
separatist movement of the Sikhs. Thought-provoking and searching,
Utopias in Conflict should interest anyone concerned about
fundamentalism, the problems of national integration, and politics
and religion in the Third World. This title is part of UC Press's
Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California
Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and
give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to
1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1990.
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Age of coexistence : the ecumenical frame and the making of the modern Arab world
\"Today's headlines paint the Middle East as a collection of war-torn countries and extremist groups consumed by sectarian rage. Ussama Makdisi's Age of Coexistence reveals a hidden and hopeful story that counters this clichéd portrayal. It shows how a region rich with ethnic and religious diversity created a modern culture of coexistence amid Ottoman reformation, European colonialism, and the emergence of nationalism. Moving from the nineteenth century to the present, this groundbreaking book explores, without denial or equivocation, the politics of pluralism during the Ottoman Empire and in the post-Ottoman Arab world. Rather than judging the Arab world as a place of age-old sectarian animosities, Age of Coexistence describes the forging of a complex system of coexistence, what Makdisi calls the \"ecumenical frame.\" He argues that new forms of antisectarian politics, and some of the most important examples of Muslim-Christian political collaboration, crystallized to make and define the modern Arab world. Despite massive challenges and setbacks, and despite the persistence of colonialism and authoritarianism, this framework for coexistence has endured for nearly a century. It is a reminder that religious diversity does not automatically lead to sectarianism. Instead, as Makdisi demonstrates, people of different faiths, but not necessarily of different political outlooks, have consistently tried to build modern societies that transcend religious and sectarian differences\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Practice of Pluralism
The clash of modernity and an Amish buggy might be the first image that comes to one's mind when imagining Lancaster, Pennsylvania, today. But in the early to mid-eighteenth century, Lancaster stood apart as an active and religiously diverse, ethnically complex, and bustling city. On the eve of the American Revolution, Lancaster's population had risen to nearly three thousand inhabitants; it stood as a center of commerce, industry, and trade. While the German-speaking population—Anabaptists as well as German Lutherans, Moravians, and German Calvinists—made up the majority, about one-third were English-speaking Anglicans, Catholics, Presbyterians, Quakers, Calvinists, and other Christian groups. A small group of Jewish families also lived in Lancaster, though they had no synagogue. Carefully mining historical records and documents, from tax records to church membership rolls, Mark Häberlein confirms that religion in Lancaster was neither on the decline nor rapidly changing; rather, steady and deliberate growth marked a diverse religious population.
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Religion, Culture, and the State
Religion, Culture, and the Stateaddresses reasonable accommodation from legal, political, and anthropological perspectives, with the contributors using the 2008 Bouchard-Taylor Report as their point of departure to contextualize the English and French Canadian experiences of multiculturalism and diversity.
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