Religious pluralism : framing religious diversity in the contemporary world /

Religious pluralism : framing religious diversity in the contemporary world /

This volume illustrates both theoretically and empirically the differences between religious diversity and religious pluralism. It highlights how the factual situation of cultural and religious diversity may lead to individual, social and political choices of organized and recognized pluralism. In t...

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Other Authors: Giordan, Giuseppe (Editor), Pace, Enzo (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2014.
Subjects:
Religious pluralism.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Pluralism as Legitimization of Diversity; Giuseppe Giordan
  • PART I: IDEAS AND CONCEPTS ON RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
  • Chapter 2: Rethinking Religious Pluralism; James A. Beckford
  • Chapter 3: Religious Diversity, Social Control and Legal Pluralism: A Socio-Legal Analysis; James T. Richardson
  • Chapter 4: Oligopoly Is Not Pluralism; Fenggang Yang
  • PART II: CASE STUDIES IN RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
  • Chapter 5: Religious and Philosophical Diversity as a Challenge for the Secularism: A Belgian-French Comparison; Jean-Paul Willaime
  • Chapter 6: The Diversity of Religious Diversity. Using Census and NCS Methodology in Order to Map and Assess the Religious Diversity of a Whole Country; Christophe Monnot and Jörg Stolz
  • Chapter 7: Increasing Religious Diversity in a Society Monopolized by Catholicism; Vincenzo Pace
  • Chapter 8: Rethinking Religious Diversity: Diversities and Governance of Diversities in 'Post-Societies'; Siniša Zrinščak
  • Chapter 9: Diversity vs Pluralism? Notes from the American Experience; James V. Spickard
  • Chapter 10: Between No Establishment and Free Exercise: The Dialectic of American Religious Pluralism; William H. Swatos, Jr
  • Chapter 11: Missionary Trans-border Religions and Defensive Civil Society in Contemporary Japan: Toward a Comparative Institutional Approach to Religious Pluralism; Yoshihide Sakurai
  • Chapter 12: Religious Tendencies in Brazil: Disenchantment, Secularization and Sociologists; Roberto Motta
  • Index.

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