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This book paves the way for a more enlarged discussion on religion
and migration phenomena in countries of Northern and Southern
Europe. From a comparative perspective, these are regions with very
different religious traditions and different historical
State/Church relations. Although official religion persisted longer
in Nordic Protestant countries than in South Mediterranean
countries, levels of secularization are higher. In the last
decades, both Northern and Southern Europe have received strong
flows of newcomers. From this perspective, the book presents
through various theoretical lenses and empirical researches the
impact mobility and consequent religious transnationalism have on
multiple aspects of culture and social life in societies where the
religious landscapes are increasingly diverse. The chapters
demonstrate that we are dealing with complex scenarios: different
contexts of reception, different countries of origin, various
ethnicities and religious traditions (Catholics, Orthodox and
Evangelical Christians, Muslims, Buddhists). Having become plural
spaces, our societies tend to be far more concerned with the issue
of social integration rather than with that of social identities
reconstruction in society as a whole, often ignoring that today
religion manifests itself as a plurality of religions. In short,
what are the implications of newcomers for the religious life of
Europe and for the redesign of its soul?
This book paves the way for a more enlarged discussion on religion
and migration phenomena in countries of Northern and Southern
Europe. From a comparative perspective, these are regions with very
different religious traditions and different historical
State/Church relations. Although official religion persisted longer
in Nordic Protestant countries than in South Mediterranean
countries, levels of secularization are higher. In the last
decades, both Northern and Southern Europe have received strong
flows of newcomers. From this perspective, the book presents
through various theoretical lenses and empirical researches the
impact mobility and consequent religious transnationalism have on
multiple aspects of culture and social life in societies where the
religious landscapes are increasingly diverse. The chapters
demonstrate that we are dealing with complex scenarios: different
contexts of reception, different countries of origin, various
ethnicities and religious traditions (Catholics, Orthodox and
Evangelical Christians, Muslims, Buddhists). Having become plural
spaces, our societies tend to be far more concerned with the issue
of social integration rather than with that of social identities
reconstruction in society as a whole, often ignoring that today
religion manifests itself as a plurality of religions. In short,
what are the implications of newcomers for the religious life of
Europe and for the redesign of its soul?
Why do Gods persist in contemporary society? Religious revival and
vitality all over the world contradict the vision of continuing
declining of belief. This linear process of eclipse of the sacred
in modern society has been proved wrong. Religion indeed is an
expert system competent in ultimate meanings of human being and
social order. Enzo Pace argues that religion persists as a symbol
because of its intrinsic power of communication, in its will to
wield the power to dominate the event of death, and to build a
bridge between the visible and the invisible. The crucial passage
from living word to holy scripture is a fundamental device in the
construction of a system of religious belief. This book provides an
insight on a new approach to religious studies, drawing from
systems theory to consider religion as a means of communication,
and offering a critical alternative to the secularization theory to
explain why religion persists in modernity.
Why do Gods persist in contemporary society? Religious revival and
vitality all over the world contradict the vision of continuing
declining of belief. This linear process of eclipse of the sacred
in modern society has been proved wrong. Religion indeed is an
expert system competent in ultimate meanings of human being and
social order. Enzo Pace argues that religion persists as a symbol
because of its intrinsic power of communication, in its will to
wield the power to dominate the event of death, and to build a
bridge between the visible and the invisible. The crucial passage
from living word to holy scripture is a fundamental device in the
construction of a system of religious belief. This book provides an
insight on a new approach to religious studies, drawing from
systems theory to consider religion as a means of communication,
and offering a critical alternative to the secularization theory to
explain why religion persists in modernity.
This volume illustrates both theoretically and empirically the
differences between religious diversity and religious pluralism. It
highlights how the factual situation of cultural and religious
diversity may lead to individual, social and political choices of
organized and recognized pluralism. In the process, both individual
and collective identities are redefined, incessantly moving along
the continuum that ranges from exclusion to inclusion. The book
starts by first detailing general issues related to religious
pluralism. It makes the case for keeping the empirical, the
normative, the regulatory and the interactive dimensions of
religious pluralism analytically distinct while recognizing that,
in practice, they often overlap. It also underlines the importance
of seeking connections between religious pluralism and other
pluralisms. Next, the book explores how religious diversity can
operate to contribute to legal pluralism and examines the different
types of church-state relations: eradication, monopoly, oligopoly
and pluralism. The second half of the book features case studies
that provide a more specific look at the general issues, from ways
to map and assess the religious diversity of a whole country to a
comparison between Belgian-French views of religious and
philosophical diversity, from religious pluralism in Italy to the
shifting approach to ethnic and religious diversity in America, and
from a sociological and historical perspective of religious
plurality in Japan to an exploration of Brazilian religions, old
and new. The transition from religious diversity to religious
pluralism is one of the most important challenges that will reshape
the role of religion in contemporary society. This book provides
readers with insights that will help them better understand and
interpret this unprecedented transition.
This volume illustrates both theoretically and empirically the
differences between religious diversity and religious pluralism. It
highlights how the factual situation of cultural and religious
diversity may lead to individual, social and political choices of
organized and recognized pluralism. In the process, both individual
and collective identities are redefined, incessantly moving along
the continuum that ranges from exclusion to inclusion. The book
starts by first detailing general issues related to religious
pluralism. It makes the case for keeping the empirical, the
normative, the regulatory and the interactive dimensions of
religious pluralism analytically distinct while recognizing that,
in practice, they often overlap. It also underlines the importance
of seeking connections between religious pluralism and other
pluralisms. Next, the book explores how religious diversity can
operate to contribute to legal pluralism and examines the different
types of church-state relations: eradication, monopoly, oligopoly
and pluralism. The second half of the book features case studies
that provide a more specific look at the general issues, from ways
to map and assess the religious diversity of a whole country to a
comparison between Belgian-French views of religious and
philosophical diversity, from religious pluralism in Italy to the
shifting approach to ethnic and religious diversity in America, and
from a sociological and historical perspective of religious
plurality in Japan to an exploration of Brazilian religions, old
and new. The transition from religious diversity to religious
pluralism is one of the most important challenges that will reshape
the role of religion in contemporary society. This book provides
readers with insights that will help them better understand and
interpret this unprecedented transition.
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