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Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

Online-Ressource (280 p)

Englisch

Cover; Religious Pluralism, State and Society in Asia; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Religious pluralism, state and society in Asia; Part I Pluralism and the state; 2 Urbanization, civil society and religious pluralism in Indonesia and Turkey; 3 Sacred sites and social conflict: Yasukuni shrine and religious pluralism in Japanese society; 4 Hierarchical plurality: State, religion and pluralism in southwest China; 5 Literacy wars: Children's education and weekend madrasahs in Singapore

Part II Conviviality in the city6 In the name of God: South Asian Muslims in a Chinese temple fair in Hong Kong; 7 Sweetness and light: The bright side of pluralism in a Rajasthan town; 8 Overcoming 'hierarchized conviviality' in the Manila metropolis: Religious pluralism and urbanization in the Philippines; 9 Actually existing religious pluralism in Kuala Lumpur; Part III Pluralism and individual identities; 10 Cosmopolitan Islam and inclusive Chineseness: Chinese-style Mosques in Indonesia; 11 Ramadan in the newsroom: Malaysiakini, Tempo, and the state in Indonesia and Malaysia

12 Pluralist currents and counter-currents in the Indonesian mass media: The case of Anand Krishna13 A Sufi, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, TV Guru: Anandmurti Gurumaa; Index

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Print version: Religious Pluralism, State and Society in Asia

978-0-415-83884-9

978-0-415-83884-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-1-134-57535-0 ( : 176.51 (NL))

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BE 3740  | LC 30330      Ähnliche Literatur

BL1033 .R46 2013

201.5095 ; 306.6095

LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Religion and sociology - Asia

Taking a critical approach to the concept of 'religious pluralism', this book examines the dynamics of religious co-existence in Asia as they are directly addressed by governments, or indirectly managed by groups and individuals. It looks at the quality of relations that emerge in encounters among people of different religious traditions or among people who hold different visions within the same tradition. Chapters focus in particular on the places of everyday religious diversity in Asian societies in order to explore how religious groups have confronted new situations of religious diversit