Community Identity
Perspectives from Theology and Religious Studies
Published on 1. September 2007
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-567-03156-3 (ISBN)
Description
The understanding of identity in relation to community has been a focus of academic studies in recent years. An exclusive self-understanding of the identity of one's own community, coupled with a hostile attitude toward other communities, often leads to communal conflicts. In particular, it is important to notice the significance of religion in the re-shaping of community identities in this process. This volume focuses first on communal or corporate understanding of identity. Secondly, this volume will assess the topic of identity from the perspectives of theology and religious studies. Thirdly, the volume will seek to address the issue of interaction between religious communities and wider society by looking at case studies from the Yorkshire area.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-567-03156-3 (9780567031563)
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Persons
Sebastian Kim, Professor of Theology and Public Life, York St John University College, UK. Pauline Kollontai, Principal Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies, York St John University College, UK.
Content
INTRODUCTION; Part I: Community Identity In Perspectives; 1. Pauline Kollontai: Defining Community and Expressing Identity; 2. Richard Andrew: Binary Reciprocity: Karl Barth, Christological Identity and the Politics of Recognition; 3. Sebastian Kim: Differing Concepts of Religious Community Identity: Debates over the 'Racial and Religious Hatred Bill'; 4. Kim Knott: Diasporas, Migration and Identities; 5. Sue Yore: Literature, Identity and Post-modernity; Part II: Community Identity In Contets; 6. Greg Hoyland: Anglican York: Denominational Association, Affiliation, and Identity; 7. Chris Maunder: Mary and Catholic Identity; 8. Stephen Friend: Religion and Identity in Yorkshire Fishing Communities; 9. Rob Warner: York's Evangelicals and Charismatics: An Examination of an Emergent Free Market in Voluntarist Religious Identities; 10. Johan Bergstrom-Allen: The Carmelite Community's Development of an Identity in York; 11. Richard Noake: Diaspora Stories: A Case Study of the South Asian Community of York; 12. Karen Abi-Ezzi: Identity of the Muslim Communities in Bradford.