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Social Cohesion, Peacebuilding, Human Rights, and Dialogue
Global Interreligious Perspectives
Series: - Currents of Encounter, Volume: 69
Increasingly, discussions of religious difference and diversity are moving from the theological and theoretical towards the practical and contextual. This volume explores, through global cases and discussions, questions around social cohesion, peacebuilding, human rights, and dialogue across a range of traditions and locations. The book brings together case studies and authors from North America, Europe, and Australia as well as East and Southeast Asia to form a global dialogue about how religious diversity is conceptualised and enacted. The approach is multidisciplinary with bases in such fields as international relations, religious studies, and sociology, while it provides perspectives that come from both established scholars and up and coming academics.
Paul Hedges is Professor of Interreligious Studies at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Life Member at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He has previously published 15 books and over 90 scholarly papers, including Christian Polytheism? Polydox Theologies of Multi-devotional and Decolonial Praxis (Routledge, 2024).
Abdullah Saeed is Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on the negotiation of text and context, ijtihad and interpretation.
Nursheila Muez was a Senior Analyst at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University. She is the co-author of Secularism in Singapore: Asatizahâs Perspectives on its Reconcilability with Islam (2020).
Luca Farrow is an Associate Research Fellow at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He researches religion, law, and extremisms and is co-author of âProtection against Religious Hatredâ in Freedom of Religion and Religious Pluralism (Bhuiyan and Zoethout eds.; Brill, 2023).
Abdullah Saeed is Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on the negotiation of text and context, ijtihad and interpretation.
Nursheila Muez was a Senior Analyst at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University. She is the co-author of Secularism in Singapore: Asatizahâs Perspectives on its Reconcilability with Islam (2020).
Luca Farrow is an Associate Research Fellow at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He researches religion, law, and extremisms and is co-author of âProtection against Religious Hatredâ in Freedom of Religion and Religious Pluralism (Bhuiyan and Zoethout eds.; Brill, 2023).
Notes on Contributors
Cohesion, Peace, Rights, and Dialogue: an Introduction
âPaul Hedges, Abdullah Saeed, Nursheila Muez and Luca Farrow
1 Freedom of Religion or Belief in International Relations: Basic Principles, Nagging Debates
âKatherine Marshall
2 Conceptualising Social Cohesion in Relation to Religious Diversity: Sketching a Pathway in a Globalised World
âPaul Hedges
3 Multifaith Movements and Critical Religious Pluralism: Precarity, Performativity and Peacebuilding
âAnna Halafoff
4 Unpacking Laïcité Amidst Rising Islamophobia in France: Favouring Equality or Discrimination?
âCristina de Esperanza Picardo
5 Religion, Nationalism and Politics in Southeast Asia: the Ambivalence of the Sacred in an Uncertain World
âJoseph Chinyong Liow
6 Living in a Religiously Plural Society: a Muslim Perspective on Being Inclusive Today
âAbdullah Saeed
7 Religious Peacebuilding in Post-War Maluku: Tiweryâs Theology of the Mother (Teologi Ina) and Nunusaku-based Cosmology
âLailatul Fitriyah
8 Interstitial Theology and Interreligious Reconciliation in Post-War Maluku: the Work of Elifas Maspaitella and Jacklevyn Manuputty
âLailatul Fitriyah
9 Interreligious Dialogue in a World of Conflict and Violence: a Critical Exploration of Confucianism
âLai Pan-Chiu
Index
Cohesion, Peace, Rights, and Dialogue: an Introduction
âPaul Hedges, Abdullah Saeed, Nursheila Muez and Luca Farrow
PART 1: Cohesion, Rights, Difference: Global Principles and Concepts
1 Freedom of Religion or Belief in International Relations: Basic Principles, Nagging Debates
âKatherine Marshall
2 Conceptualising Social Cohesion in Relation to Religious Diversity: Sketching a Pathway in a Globalised World
âPaul Hedges
3 Multifaith Movements and Critical Religious Pluralism: Precarity, Performativity and Peacebuilding
âAnna Halafoff
PART 2: The Context of Living with Diversity: Global Case Studies
4 Unpacking Laïcité Amidst Rising Islamophobia in France: Favouring Equality or Discrimination?
âCristina de Esperanza Picardo
5 Religion, Nationalism and Politics in Southeast Asia: the Ambivalence of the Sacred in an Uncertain World
âJoseph Chinyong Liow
6 Living in a Religiously Plural Society: a Muslim Perspective on Being Inclusive Today
âAbdullah Saeed
PART 3: Peacebuilding, Dialogue, and Reconciliation in Southeast and East Asian Contexts
7 Religious Peacebuilding in Post-War Maluku: Tiweryâs Theology of the Mother (Teologi Ina) and Nunusaku-based Cosmology
âLailatul Fitriyah
8 Interstitial Theology and Interreligious Reconciliation in Post-War Maluku: the Work of Elifas Maspaitella and Jacklevyn Manuputty
âLailatul Fitriyah
9 Interreligious Dialogue in a World of Conflict and Violence: a Critical Exploration of Confucianism
âLai Pan-Chiu
Index
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