ISBN:
9780415819381
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (233 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
Parallel Title:
Print version Cosmopolitanism, Religion and the Public Sphere
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Although emerging scholarship in the social sciences suggests that religion can be a potential catalyst of cosmopolitanism and global citizenship, few attempts have been made to bring to the fore new theoretical positions and empirical analyses of how cosmopolitanism -- as a philosophical notion, a practice and identity outlook -- can also shape and inform concrete religious affiliations. Key questions concerning the significance of cosmopolitan ideas and practices - in relation to particular religious experiences and discourses -- remain to be explored, both theoretically and empirically. Thi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Contexts; 1 The discourse and practice of a Buddhist cosmopolitanism: transnational migrants and Tzu Chi Movement; 2 The controversy over minarets in Switzerland: cosmopolitanism and religious symbols in the public sphere; 3 Finding a path to a common future: religion and cosmopolitanism in the context of Bosnia- Herzegovina; 4 Latin American Pentecostalism and ecumenical alterglobalism as cases of agonistic cosmopolitanism
Description / Table of Contents:
5 The cosmopolitan outlook and missionary encounters: young Catholic missionaries in AfricaPart II Debates; 6 Engaged cosmopolitanism and religious pluralism in an era of globalization; 7 Mediating cosmopolitanism: contests, ambiguities, critiques and questions; 8 Religion and deep multiculturalism: toward a cosmopolitical ethics of engagement; 9 Christian and cosmopolitan ethics: friends or foes?; 10 Salman Rushdie's religious cosmopolitans; 11 Moving beyond the rhetoric: meeting the challenges of cosmopolitanism, faith and the public sphere; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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