Many Yet One?
Multiple Religious Belonging
Published on 15. November 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-2-8254-1669-3 (ISBN)
Description
While we tend to think of religions as distinct, univocal, even competing traditions, the phenomenon of multiple religious belonging is widespread, both historically and today.
Alive to a variety of traditions and regions, this volume explores the reality of religious hybridity-whether because of cultural inheritance, family circumstances, or explicit choice- its confounding of traditional categories in theology and the study of religion, and its meaning for Christian theology. Even as it complexifies the idea of religious identity, the authors show, it enriches our understanding of ultimate reality and the whole range of practices by which humans relate to it.
Alive to a variety of traditions and regions, this volume explores the reality of religious hybridity-whether because of cultural inheritance, family circumstances, or explicit choice- its confounding of traditional categories in theology and the study of religion, and its meaning for Christian theology. Even as it complexifies the idea of religious identity, the authors show, it enriches our understanding of ultimate reality and the whole range of practices by which humans relate to it.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Geneva
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-2-8254-1669-3 (9782825416693)
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Joseph Prabhakar Dayam is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Theology and Ethics at Gurukul Lutheran Theological College and Research Institute, Chennai, India. Peniel Jesudason Rufus Rajkumar is programme executive for interreligious dialogue and cooperation, World Council of Churches.