Emergent Religious Pluralisms

336 Pages·2019·4.871 MB·English

by  Jan-Jonathan Bock, John Fahy, Samuel Everett

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN LIVED RELIGION
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Emergent Religious
Pluralisms
Edited by
Jan-Jonathan Bock
John Fahy
Samuel Everett
Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion
and Societal Challenges
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Department of Sociology
Boston University
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Faculty of Religion and Theology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Jan-Jonathan Bock · John Fahy ·
Samuel Everett
Editors
Emergent Religious
Pluralisms
Editors
Jan-Jonathan Bock John Fahy
Cumberland Lodge Georgetown University, Qatar
Windsor Great Park Doha, Qatar
Windsor, UK
Woolf Institute
Samuel Everett Cambridge, UK
CRASSH
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges
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Acknowledgements
This collection started with a two-day conference on ‘Emergent
Religious Pluralism(s)’, held in April 2018 at the Woolf Institute,
Cambridge, where Jan and John were Research Fellows. John was also
a Research Fellow at Georgetown University, Qatar. Samuel, formerly
a Junior Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute, then worked as a
Research Associate on the CRASSH-Mellon project ‘Religious Diversity
and the Secular University’ at the Centre for Research in the Arts,
Social Sciences and the Humanities, or CRASSH, at the University of
Cambridge.
At the time, Jan and John led on a comparative research project,
‘Assessing the Effectiveness of Interfaith Initiatives’, which explored
challenges and opportunities for interfaith engagement in London,
Doha and Delhi. The research was made possible by the National
Priorities Research Program (NPRP) grant #7-585-6-020 from the
Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). The
statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors.
We would like to express our gratitude to staff members at the Woolf
Institute who helped make the conference a success, and especially
Esther-Miriam Wagner, Helen Cornish, Rodrigo Garcia-Velasco Bernal,
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vi Acknowledgements
Dunya Habash, Jessica Tearney-Pearce, Tina Steiner, Lea Taragin-Zeller,
John Mueller, Julian Hargreaves, Amy Rhys-Davies and Edward Kessler.
We would also like to thank Shana Cohen for her contribution to the
research project.
Nasar Meer delivered an inspiring keynote at the conference, and
we are glad that he was able to co-author the afterword. Westminster
College and St. Edmund’s College supported the event logistically. We
also received a grant from the Spalding Trust towards the conference,
for which we are very grateful.
Finally, we would like to thank Poppy Hull at Palgrave Macmillan for
her superb guidance throughout the editorial and production process.
Windsor, Manama and Cambridge Jan-Jonathan Bock
February 2019 John Fahy
Samuel Everett
Praise for “Emergent Religious Pluralisms”
“Emergent Religious Pluralisms is a distinctive contribution to the
ever-growing literature in this broad field, bringing together a range of
contributions that are fully rooted in specific social, political, religious
and geographical contexts, but which by their specificity also make
a shared contribution to the book’s other unifying emphasis on the
importance of lived religious pluralism.”
—Paul Weller, Emeritus Professor, University of Derby; Professor,
Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry
University; and Research Fellow in Religion and Society,
Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, UK
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Contents
1 Emergent Religious Pluralisms: Ideals and Realities
in a Changing World 1
Jan-Jonathan Bock and John Fahy
2 Islamic Cosmopolitanism: Muslim Minorities and
Religious Pluralism in North America and Europe 21
Carl Morris
3 The Boundaries of Religious Pluralism 49
Zaheeda P. Alibhai
4 Writing in Palimpsests: Performative Acts and Tactics
in Everyday Life of Chinese Muslims 73
Jing Wang
5 Religious Pluralism, Interfaith Dialogue and Postwar
Lebanon 95
Stacey Gutkowski, Craig Larkin and Ana Maria Daou
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6 Towards Muslim Pluralism: Dialogue and Discord
in Contemporary Sri Lanka 123
Harun Rasiah
7 Uncovering Neglected Emerging Lived Religious
Pluralisms 145
Douglas Giles
8 Increasing Plurality and Neglected Pluralism:
Religious Diversity in the Suburbs of Rome 167
Valeria Fabretti, Maria Chiara Giorda and Piero Vereni
9 Turning the Kaleidoscope and Religious Pluralism
Inside-Out: The Case of Berlin’s Jewish Scene 195
Vanessa Rau
10 ‘Religion Is Like Tofu, It Takes on the Flavour
of Whatever It’s Cooked In’: Religious Citizenship
and Pluralism Shaping Lived Religion Within
an American Women’s Mosque 223
Anna Piela
11 Preaching to the Converted? Interfaith Dialogue vs.
Interfaith Realities 251
Sarah L. Markiewicz
12 Climate Change and Global Religious Pluralism 279
Evan Berry
13 Afterword: A Plural Century? 303
Nasar Meer and Samuel Everett
Index 315