Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Asia

This volume brings together a range of critical studies that explore diverse ways in which processes of globalization pose new challenges and offer new opportunities for religious groups to propagate their beliefs in contemporary Asian contexts. Proselytizing tests the limits of religious pluralism,...

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Auteur principal: Finucane, Juliana (Auteur)
Collaborateurs: Feener, R. Michael (Éditeur intellectuel)
Type de support: Électronique Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Singapore s.l. Springer Singapore 2014
Dans:Année: 2014
Collection/Revue:ARI - Springer Asia Series 4
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Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Asie / Mission / Pluralisme religieux
B Asie / Pluralisme religieux / Religion / Propagation
Sujets non-standardisés:B Humanities
B Religious pluralism Asia
B Religion (General)
B Proselytizing Asia
B Humanities / Arts
B Regional planning
B Contribution <colloque> 2010 (Singapur)
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Édition parallèle:Non-électronique
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Résumé:This volume brings together a range of critical studies that explore diverse ways in which processes of globalization pose new challenges and offer new opportunities for religious groups to propagate their beliefs in contemporary Asian contexts. Proselytizing tests the limits of religious pluralism, as it is a practice that exists on the border of tolerance and intolerance. The practice of proselytizing presupposes not only that people are freely-choosing agents and that religion itself is an issue of individual preference. At the same time, however, it also raises fraught questions about belonging to particular communties and heightens the moral stakes in involved in such choices. In many contemporary Asian societies, questions about the limits of acceptable proselytic behavior have taken on added urgency in the current era of globalization. Recognizing this, the studies brought together here serve to develop our uderstandings of current developments as it critically explores the complex ways in which contemporary contexts of religious pluralism in Asia both enable, and are threatened by, projects of proselytization
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ISBN:9814451185
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/978-981-4451-18-5