The role of religion in the process of nation-building: from plurality to pluralism

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.J.A. Lubbe
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Religious Plurality ◽  
Role Of Religion

AbstractThis article argues that religious pluralism, unlike religious plurality, is not a given fact in any society. It constitutes a process in which different religious traditions learn to interact with each other. This process runs parallel to, and in many ways shares the problems and goals of any programme of nation-building. Only where religious pluralism is beginning to emerge will different religions be able to participate actively in the building of a new society. Without relating to each other, different religions will not be able to promote the idea of togetherness and harmony.

scholarly journals Vyacheslav Lipinski about the peculiarities of nation-building and the role of religion in this process

2002 ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Z.V. Shved
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Religion

Over the last decade, interest in the heritage of such national thinkers who have worked in the space of sociocultural and religious studies has become relevant. That is why, in our opinion, the appeal to Vyacheslav Lipynsky's creative work is justified. Today, his legacy can be used not only to understand the history of society and the state, but also to understand some aspects of our present. Therefore, you should listen more carefully to the thoughts of this thinker.

Studying Human Rights in the Middle East: Lingua Franca of Global Politics or Forked Tongue of Donors?

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Allen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
Local Tradition ◽  
Women's Human Rights ◽  
Role Of Religion

The study of human rights has gone through many phases, and the boom in the scholarly industry of human rights studies has yielded many subspecialties, including human rights in particular regions and the intersections of human rights with different religious traditions. One principal area of discussion likely to be of interest to readers of this journal has been the question of Muslim women's human rights and the role of religion in this respect. The problem was often presented as primarily an ideological one, a conflict between a local tradition, Islam, and the global demands for human rights.

scholarly journals Mama, Keep Walking for Peace and Justice: Gender Violence and Liberian Mothers’ Interreligious Peace Movement

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
Wonchul Shin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
Peace Movement ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Peace And Justice ◽  
Structural Poverty ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Focusing on the understudied area of women, religion, and peacebuilding, this essay offers the case study of Liberian mothers’ actions in the interreligious peace movement to address multiple forms of violence in the midst and aftermath of Liberian civil wars. This essay examines three forms of gender violence and their impact on the lives of Liberian women: (1) sexual violence, (2) forced mobilization of child soldiers, and (3) structural poverty. Afterwards, the essay explores the journey of Liberian mothers to peace and justice and analyzes the role of religion(s) in organizing and sustaining the mothers’ interreligious peace movement. Specifically, this essay highlights the concept of motherhood rooted in Pan-African religious traditions as a key moral resource to empower the mothers as peacebuilders and to foster restorative justice in their war-torn nation.

Between Unity and Diversity: The Construction of the Indonesian Nation

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Meuleman
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
New Order ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Religion And Ethnicity ◽  
Role Of Religion

AbstractThis article studies the process of nation-building in Indonesia. Using a historical approach for the analysis of what is portrayed as a nonlinear, long-term process, it discusses relevant developments during the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial eras, with particular attention to the New Order and most recent periods. The analysis focuses on the complex relations between unity and diversity and highlights the multiplicity of frame-works within which inhabitants of the present Republic of Indonesia have constituted their identities, including national, transnational and subnational ones. Two questions that receive particular attention are the role of religion and the relations between the centre and various parts of the country. The article argues that various factors, including religion and ethnicity, have contributed to nation-building in specific circumstances, but have had contrary effects under other conditions. It also shows that progress and regression in nation-building has partially been the voluntary or involuntary effect of the tactical use governments and other political actors have made of manifold communal differences. It adds that the identity of Indonesian citizens becomes increasingly complex and trans- as well as subnational components increasingly important, but that this does not automatically imply the end of the nation-building process.

scholarly journals TEOLOGIA ASIÁTICA E PLURALISMO RELIGIOSO

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (120) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Faustino Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Religious Plurality ◽  
Religious Dialogue

O artigo visa apresentar um breve panorama da reflexão teológica asiática em curso no continente sobre as religiões e o pluralismo religioso. Darse-á um destaque especial à incidência dessa reflexão nos diversos documentos da Federação das Conferências Episcopais da Ásia (FABC) em seu papel singular e pioneiro na abordagem dessa questão. Parte-se de uma reflexão sobre a pluralidade religiosa na ˘sia e a busca teológica de uma sintonia com tal realidade, com ênfase na acolhida teológica de um pluralismo de princípio. Em seguida, abordam-se alguns traços específicos da reflexão teológica nos campos da cristologia, eclesiologia, missiologia e diálogo inter-religioso.ABSTRACT: The article aims to present a brief panorama of the current Asian theological reflection on the religions and religious pluralism on the continent. A special prominence is given to the incidence of this reflection in diverse documents of the Federation of the Episcopal Conferences of Asia (FABC) in its singular and pioneering role of exploring this question. It begins with a reflection on the religious plurality in Asia and the theological search of a convergence with such reality, with emphasis on the theological reception of a pluralism of principle. After that, some specific traces of the theological reflection in the fields of the cristology, eclesiology, missiology and Inter-religious dialogue are approached. 

“The World is So Much Bigger”

2021 ◽  
pp. 211-230
Author(s):  
Tina Marie Keller
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
One Year ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Impact

Opportunities to experience diverse religious traditions while traveling abroad can create invitations to explore the role of religion in identity. This becomes important as teacher educators prepare preservice teachers for classrooms of increasing religious diversity. This study examined the impact of a two-week experience in Israel for three preservice teachers before, immediately after, and one year after the trip. The data suggests that purposeful inclusions of religious experiences, sites, and more importantly personal encounters with individuals of a variety of faiths can create occasions to reflect upon the role of religion in identity. The preservice teachers in this study, while each possessing unique perspectives, spoke to the impact of this experience upon their teaching in the classroom. The chapter concludes with suggested recommendations on how to incorporate religion while planning a trip with preservice teachers.

“The World is So Much Bigger”

2017 ◽  
pp. 275-294
Author(s):  
Tina Marie Keller
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
One Year ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Impact

Opportunities to experience diverse religious traditions while traveling abroad can create invitations to explore the role of religion in identity. This becomes important as teacher educators prepare preservice teachers for classrooms of increasing religious diversity. This study examined the impact of a two-week experience in Israel for three preservice teachers before, immediately after, and one year after the trip. The data suggests that purposeful inclusions of religious experiences, sites, and more importantly personal encounters with individuals of a variety of faiths can create occasions to reflect upon the role of religion in identity. The preservice teachers in this study, while each possessing unique perspectives, spoke to the impact of this experience upon their teaching in the classroom. The chapter concludes with suggested recommendations on how to incorporate religion while planning a trip with preservice teachers.

Evangelism, Mission, and Crusade in American Religion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Ruble
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
American Religion ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Religious Difference ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
National Difference ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Evangelism, mission, and crusade are terms related to spreading a religious message. Although all three words are primarily used in relation to Christianity, evangelism and mission have been applied to activities by traditions other than Christianity and, indeed, to secular actors, including nations. In the context of American religion, evangelism, mission, and crusade are activities through which people have contested and defined national identity and distinguished between the “foreign” and “domestic” and “us” and “them.” These delineations, even when done through activities ostensibly concerned with religious difference, have often been made on the basis of ethnicity and race. Thus, exploring evangelism, mission, and crusade illumines how notions of religious, racial, ethnic, and national difference have been constructed in relationship to each other. Considering these terms in their U.S. context, then, reveals relationships between religious and national identity, the role of religion in nation-building, and how religious beliefs and practices can both reify and challenge notions of what the nation is and who belongs to it.

Religious Peacebuilding

2015 ◽  
pp. 2-32
Author(s):  
Atalia Omer
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Religion In Public Life

The emphasis of the field of religious peacebuilding on the potentially constructive role of religion in transforming conflicts should not preclude considering how the field might, and even should, also challenge religious traditions and political ideologies. Exploration of religious traditions’ peace-promoting resources and the very field of religious peacebuilding are largely grounded in Scott Appleby’s The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation. However, Appleby’s insight is misapplied if a preoccupation with theological retrieval impedes an examination of how interpretations of events from multiple perspectives may challenge and transform religious and political systems. Cultivating religious peacebuilding as a rigorous academic enterprise will entail questioning the field’s reliance on secularist presumptions about religion, which facilitate complicity with religion’s contribution to injustices. It also requires reconsidering the presumed unidirectionality of religion and historical change and connecting the field to broader conversations about religion in public life.

Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Religion and Multiple Modernities within Islam

Numen ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-359
Author(s):  
Dietrich Jung
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Multiple Modernities ◽  
The Core ◽  
Role Of Religion

AbstractThis article presents the overarching theoretical framework and some tentative findings of the Modern Muslim Subjectivities Project (MMSP). It discusses some of its conceptual tools and presents strategies for studying the role of religion in modern Muslim subjectivity formation. The core rationale of this research program is to explore the role of religious traditions in the construction of modern forms of Muslim subjectivity and social order. It investigates the ways in which Muslims have imagined specifically Islamic modernities in combination with non-religious and globally relevant cultural scripts. In criticizing the alleged Western origin and secular nature of modernity, the MMSP aims at making original contributions both to conceptual discussions of modernity in the study of religions and to our knowledge of modern Muslim societies.

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