Discourses on Religious Diversity

Discourses on Religious Diversity
Author: Martin D. Stringer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2016-05-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317149742


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Religious diversity is an ever present, and increasingly visible, reality in cities across the world. It is an issue of immediate concern to city leaders and members of religious communities but do we really know what ordinary members of the public, the people who live in the city, really think about it? Major news items, inter-religious violence and notorious public events often lead to negative views being expressed, especially among those who would not consider themselves to have a religious identity of their own. Martin Stringer explores the highly complex series of discourses around religion and religious diversity that are held by ordinary members of the city; discourses that are often contradictory in themselves and discourses that show that attitudes to religion vary considerably depending on context and wider local or national narratives. Drawing on examples from UK (particularly Birmingham, one of the UK's most diverse cities), Europe and the United States, Stringer offers some practical suggestions for ways in which discourses of religious diversity can be managed in the future. Students in the fields of religious studies, sociology, anthropology and urban studies; practitioners involved in inter-religious debates; and church and other faith leaders and politicians should all find this book an invaluable addition to ongoing debates.

Discourses of Religion and Secularism in Religious Education Classrooms

Discourses of Religion and Secularism in Religious Education Classrooms
Author: Karin Kittelmann Flensner
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2017-07-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319609491


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This book answers the question on how students and teachers talk about religion when the mandatory and nonconfessional school subject of Religious Education is on the schedule in the “world’s most secular country” To do this, it analyses discourses of religion as they occur in the classroom practice. It is based on findings from participant observation of Religious Education lessons in several upper secondary schools in Sweden. The book discusses different aspects of the role and function of nonconfessional integrative Religious Education in an increasingly pluralistic, multireligious, yet also secularized society, at a general level. It looks at the religious landscape, different perspectives on school subjects, various models and the development of Religious Education, and discourses of religion of a secularist, spiritual and nationalistic nature. Religious Education is a school subject that manoeuvres in the midst of a field that on the one hand concerns crucial knowledge in a pluralistic society, and on the other hand deals with highly contested questions in a society characterized by diversity and secularity. In the mandatory, integrative and non-confessional school subject of Religious Education in Sweden, all students are taught together regardless of religious or secular affiliation. The subject deals with major world religions, important non-religious worldviews and ethics, from a non-confessional perspective. Thus, in the classroom, individuals who identify with diverse religious and non-religious worldviews, with a different understanding of what religion could be and what it might mean to be religious, are brought together. The book examines questions raised in this pluralistic context: What discourses of religion become hegemonic in the classroom? How do these discourses affect the possibility of reaching the aim of Religious Education which concerns understanding and respect for different ways of thinking and living in a society characterized by diversity?

Discourses on Religious Diversity

Discourses on Religious Diversity
Author: Martin D. Stringer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2016-05-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317149734


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Religious diversity is an ever present, and increasingly visible, reality in cities across the world. It is an issue of immediate concern to city leaders and members of religious communities but do we really know what ordinary members of the public, the people who live in the city, really think about it? Major news items, inter-religious violence and notorious public events often lead to negative views being expressed, especially among those who would not consider themselves to have a religious identity of their own. Martin Stringer explores the highly complex series of discourses around religion and religious diversity that are held by ordinary members of the city; discourses that are often contradictory in themselves and discourses that show that attitudes to religion vary considerably depending on context and wider local or national narratives. Drawing on examples from UK (particularly Birmingham, one of the UK's most diverse cities), Europe and the United States, Stringer offers some practical suggestions for ways in which discourses of religious diversity can be managed in the future. Students in the fields of religious studies, sociology, anthropology and urban studies; practitioners involved in inter-religious debates; and church and other faith leaders and politicians should all find this book an invaluable addition to ongoing debates.

The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity

The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity
Author: Chad V. Meister
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0195340132


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This substantial volume of thirty-three original chapters covers the full range of issues in religious diversity. An indispensable guide for scholars and students, its essays make novel contributions and are crafted by recognized experts who represent a wide variety of religious and philosophical perspectives and backgrounds.

Language and Religious Identity

Language and Religious Identity
Author: Allyson Jule
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2007-05-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0230210945


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In a search for a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between gender, language and religious identity, this book gathers a global range of studies from the field of linguistics. It connects language use to both a religious and gender identity and shows how language works to unite, oppress, liberate or fracture the various participants.

Religious Diversity in Chinese Thought

Religious Diversity in Chinese Thought
Author: P. Schmidt-Leukel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2013-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137318503


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This collection of essays by major scholars analyze the religious diversity in Chinese religion, bringing together topics from traditional and contemporary contexts and Chinese religions' encounters with Western religion.

Public Theology, Religious Diversity, and Interreligious Learning

Public Theology, Religious Diversity, and Interreligious Learning
Author: Manfred L. Pirner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2018-06-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 042901418X


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This book describes the relationship of Christian Public Theology to other religions and their ways of contributing to the common good. It also promotes mutual learning processes in public education to strengthen the public role and responsibility of religions in pluralistic societies. This volume brings together not only public education and public theology, but also scholars from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, cultural studies, and sociology, and from different parts of the world. By doing so, the book intends to widen the horizon and provide fresh impulses for public theology as well as the discourse on public religious education.

The Critical Analysis of Religious Diversity

The Critical Analysis of Religious Diversity
Author: Lene Kühle
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2018-06-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 900436711X


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This book explores a selection of trans-contextual case studies within religious diversity scholarship to develop a series of theoretical and methodological considerations for scholars to utilize when they conduct their own studies of religious diversity.

Diversity and Pluralism in Islam

Diversity and Pluralism in Islam
Author: Zulfikar Hirji
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN:


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"This volume is the result of a series of seminars on 'Muslim pluralism' hosted at The Institute of Ismaili Studies between 2002 and 2003

Religious Discourse in Attic Oratory and Politics

Religious Discourse in Attic Oratory and Politics
Author: Andreas Serafim
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351335405


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The book offers a critical investigation of a wide range of features of religious discourse in the transmitted forensic, symbouleutic and epideictic orations of the Ten Attic Orators, a body of 151 speeches which represents the mature flourishing of the ancient art of public speaking and persuasion. Serafim focuses on how the intersections between such religious discourse and the political, legal and civic institutions of classical Athens help to shed new light on polis identity-building and the construction of an imagined community in three institutional contexts – the law court, the Assembly and the Boulē: a community that unites its members and defines the ways in which they make decisions. After a full-scale survey of the persistently and recurrently used features of religious discourse in Attic oratory, he contextualizes and explains the use of specific patterns of religious discourse in specific oratorical contexts, examining the means or restrictions that these contexts generate for the speaker. In doing so, he explores the cognitive/emotional and physical/sensory reactions of the speaker and the audience when religious stimuli are provided in orations, and how this contributes to the construction of civic and political identity in classical Athens. Religious Discourse in Attic Oratory and Politics will be of interest to anyone working on classical Athens, particularly its legal institutions, on ancient rhetoric, and ancient Greek religion and politics.