Cosmopolitanism, Religion and the Public Sphere

ISBN-13: 9780415819381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 220 str.

Maria Rovisco; Sebastian Kim

Opis

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.

This book takes as its starting point the emergence of cosmopolitanism -- as a major interdisciplinary field -- as a springboard for generating a productive dialogue among scholars working within a variety of intellectual disciplines and methodological traditions. The chapter contributions offer a serious attempt to critically engage both the limitations and possibilities of cosmopolitanism as an analytical and critical tool to understand a changing religious landscape in a globalizing world, namely, the so-called new religious diversity, religious conflict, and issues of migration, multiculturalism and transnationalism vis-a-vis the public exercise of religion. The contributors work is situated in a range of world sites in Africa, India, North America, Latin America, and Europe.

This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of globalization, religion and politics, and the sociology of religion.

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Spis treści

Introduction  PART I: CONTEXTS  1. The Sources and Sites of Religious Global Citizenship Peggy Levitt  2. Muslim Activists in India: Cosmopolitanism as instituted practice Rowena Robinson  3. Controversy over the Minaret in Switzerland: Religious Symbols in the Public Sphere Sebastian Kim  4. Finding a Path to a Common Future: Religion and Cosmopolitanism in the Context of Bosnia-Herzegovina Pauline Kollontai  5. Screening Cosmopolitanism: bearing witness to Cosmopolitanism's failure and repair in Rwanda Jolyon Mitchell  6.  Cosmopolitan challenges and missionary encounters: Young Portuguese Volunteers in Africa Maria Rovisco  SECTION II: DEBATES  7. Towards Engaged Cosmopolitanism: Cultural Translation and Religious Pluralism T ulasi Srinivas  8. Agonistic cosmopolitanism between entrepreneurship and solidarity: the case of Latin American Pentecostalism and ecumenical alterglobalism Joanildo Burity  9. Religion and Deep Multiculturalism: Towards a Cosmopolitical Ethics of Engagement Catarina Kinnval  10.  Christian and cosmopolitan ethics: friends or foes? Etienne de Villiers  11. Indigenous Religions, Cosmopolitan Norms: Ubuntu, South Africa, and the Limits of Human Rights Justin Neuman  12.  Moving Beyond The Rhetoric – Exploring Practical Examples of the Interactions of Cosmopolitanism and Religion in the Public Sphere Amjad Saleem