Increasing Religious Diversity: Historiographical Criticism of a Current Paradigm

This article argues for critical reflection on diachronic and quantitative claims about increasing religious diversity. Influential scholars in several national academies have asserted there is “increasing religious diversity” in various locales. Many also make specific claims about religious divers...

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Main Author: Wolfart, Johannes C. 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Californiarnia Press [2018]
In: Nova religio
Year: 2018, Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 63-87
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Science of Religion / New religion / Historiography / Religious pluralism
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AZ New religious movements
Further subjects:B Historiography
B new religions studies
B Religious Diversity
B Methodology
B religious diversity studies
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