Cosmopolitanism, Religion and the Public Sphere

ISBN-13: 9780367600969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 220 str.

Maria Rovisco; Sebastian Kim

Opis

This book takes as its starting point the emergence of cosmopolitanism 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 limitatio

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

O autorze

Maria Rovisco is a Lecturer in Media and Film Studies at York St John University.She has published articles on the tradition of European films of voyage, cosmopolitanism and religion, and on the cultural borders of Europe and globalization.

Sebastian Kim holds the Chair in Theology and Public Life in the Faculty of Education and Theology at York St John University. His research interests include: public theology; world Christianity; theology of mission; community and identity; contextual theologies; religion and post-modern society.