Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-6918-7 • Hardback • November 2017 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
978-1-4985-6919-4 • eBook • November 2017 • $122.50 • (£95.00)
David William Kim is visiting fellow at the Department of Political and Social Change, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University.
AcknowledgementsList of Tables and Figures Introduction Part One: Islamic Encounters - An Inter-Religious Perspective: The Dialogue of Islam within Abrahamic Religions in the 21st Century
Farooq Hassan- Who is My Neighbour?: The Laïcité-Islam Encounter in France
Pauline C. H. Kollontai- The Cultural Muslim, Secularization and the Academic Study of Islam
Milad Milani - Ummah vs Citizenship: Multi-religious Societies and the Question of Clash of Loyalties with Focus on Muslims of New Zealand
Mortaza ShamsPart Two: East Asian Religious Encounters- Chinese Tibetan Buddhists and the Confucian Revival in Contemporary China
Joshua Esler- Narrative Hybridity of Folk Daoism and National Religion: Religious Imagination in Early Twentieth Century Korean Literature
Sooyoun Kim- The Silk Letter: A Case of Transcultural Religious Conversion and Conflict
Kevin N. Cawley- Japanese Religions Outside of Japan: A Case Study of Tenrikyo Missionary Work in Congo and Nepal
Midori HoriuchiPart Three: Alternative Religious Encounters- The Relevance and Limits of “Hybridization” Theory: The Case of Jubus, “Jewish-Buddhists”
Lionel Obadia- A Sethian Religious Encounter: The Astrological Cosmology of an Egyptian Gnostic Community in Tchacos Codex
David W. Kim- World Rastafarianism and Challenges to the Status of the Rasta Women
Stephen D. Glazier- Deus and Shangti: Chinese Rites Controversy
Daniel S. H. AhnIndexList of Contributions
Thematically divided into three parts dealing with Islamic, East Asian, and alternative religious encounters, this fine collection of twelve essays examines various historical and contemporary outcomes of religious encounters across the globe. By including multiple religious traditions, cultural settings, and periods, this volume helps to shed light to the different ways religious adherents have responded to interreligious contact and exchange by means of contestation, adaptation, or alteration. Thus, its specifically broad scope will catch readers' attention and will make it an important contribution for area specialists and students of religion, globalization, and processes of transculturation alike.
— Nikolas Broy, Leipzig University
This volume addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time: religious encounters within multi-cultural societies in which significant religious tensions have been produced by modernity and globalization. The authors offer rare insights drawn from their depth of knowledge in particular religious traditions, including Islamic, East Asian, and alternative religious encounters. I strongly recommend this book to any reader interested in understanding the dynamic forces affecting religious traditions in today’s world.
— James L. Cox, emeritus, University of Edinburgh
What happens when religion meets religion? They fight? They dialogue? They adjust? They merge? All of the above—and more. This volume takes us on a global voyage indicating something of the vast range of reactions by and to religions that find themselves encountering other religions in other cultures. A truly fascinating read.
— Eileen Barker, London School of Economics
This book will be a useful tool for specialists of several academic disciplines, including modern historians of Eastern and Western civilizations, historians of religions, sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists. It is also to be recommended to opinion- and decision-makers as a source of information and experiences to help face phenomena which are destined to increase in the near future and need to be wisely governed in a globalized world.
— Fabio Scialpi, Sapienza, University of Rome