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Exploring Religious Diversity and Covenantal Pluralism in Asia - Volume I, East & Southeast Asia (Hardcover)
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Exploring Religious Diversity and Covenantal Pluralism in Asia - Volume I, East & Southeast Asia (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
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This book examines the growing diversity of religions and
worldviews across East & Southeast Asia, and the factors
affecting prospects for 'covenantal pluralism' in these regions.
According to the Pew Religious Diversity Index, half of the world's
most religiously diverse countries are in Asia. The presence of
deep religious/worldview difference is often seen as a potential
threat to socio-political cohesion or even as a source of violent
conflict. Yet in Asia (as elsewhere) the degree of this diversity
is not consistently associated with socio-political problems.
Indeed, while religious difference is implicated in some social
challenges, there are also many instances of respectful multi-faith
engagement, practical collaboration, and peaceful debate. Whether
or not religious/worldview difference is part of a positive
pluralism depends on a complex array of legal and cultural
conditions. This book explores these dynamics and contingencies in
Asia, structuring the inquiry according to the theory of
'covenantal pluralism'. Covenantal pluralist theory calls for (a) a
constitutional order characterized by freedom of
religion/conscience and equality of rights and responsibilities,
combined with (b) a culture of practical religious literacy and
virtues of mutual respect and protection. Volume I offers a
pioneering exploration of the prospects for this robust and
non-relativistic type of pluralism in East & Southeast Asia.
(Volume II examines South & Central Asia.) The chapters in
these volumes originally appeared as research articles in a series
on covenantal pluralism published by The Review of Faith &
International Affairs.
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