Religious pluralism in South Asia and Europe /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Malik, Jamal, Reifeld, Helmut
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jamal Malik
  • I. Legitimization of Plurality
  • Historical roots of plurality in Europe / Mark Häberlein
  • Religions of India: plurality and pluralism / T. N. Madan
  • Plurality of religion and plurality in religion: Christianity and Islam / Christian W. Troll
  • French Laïcity: representations and realities / Claire de Galembert
  • Multiculturalism, communitarianism, and liberal pluralism / Michael Dusche
  • II. Individual, church and community
  • Multiple identities and communitites: re-contextualizing religion / Margrit Pernau
  • Invisible religion between individualization and cultural defense / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
  • Denial of plurality: thinking of conversion through Ghandi / Sudhir Chandra
  • III. Living plurality
  • Religious plurality in the Chishti tradition: a case study of the Khanqah at Salon in Awadh / Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri
  • Spaces of encounter and plurality: looking at architecture in pre-colonial North India / Monica Juneja
  • Transition from the Syncretic to the plural: the world of Hindi and Urdu / Salil Misra
  • Telling the story of communal conflicts in South Asia: interim report on a personal search for defining myths / Ashis Nandy.