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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for "Emergent Religious Pluralisms" -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Emergent Religious Pluralisms: Ideals and Realities in a Changing World -- Pluralism(s) -- The Challenges of Religious Pluralism -- Chapter Overview -- References -- 2 Islamic Cosmopolitanism: Muslim Minorities and Religious Pluralism in North America and Europe -- Islamic Cosmopolitanism: Post-national, Rooted and Hermeneutic -- Islamic Cosmopolitanism as Post-national -- Islamic Cosmopolitanism as Rooted -- Islamic Cosmopolitanism as Hermeneutic -- Islamic Cosmopolitanism: British Civility and American Exceptionalism -- Public Religion, British Civility and Christmas Television Advertising in Britain -- American Exceptionalism, the 'Muslim Ban' and Patriotic Citizenship -- Muslim Minorities, Islamic Cosmopolitanism and the Future of Religious Pluralism -- References -- 3 The Boundaries of Religious Pluralism -- Canadian Controversy -- Conflicts Between Policies: Accommodation Negotiations -- From Conflict to Cooperation: The Hardware of Pluralism -- From Controversy in the Canadian Family to Cooperation from the Canadian Family -- References -- 4 Writing in Palimpsests: Performative Acts and Tactics in Everyday Life of Chinese Muslims -- Managing Religious Diversity: Hui Muslims in China -- Sini Calligraphy: Writing as a Performative Act of Piety -- 'Love Country, Love Religion': Performative Tactics and Intermediary Institution -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Religious Pluralism, Interfaith Dialogue and Postwar Lebanon -- Interreligious Dialogue in Lebanon -- Lebanon in Context -- Liberal Democracy and Consociational Democracy -- Adyan and Dialogue for Life and Reconciliation (DLR) -- Spaces of Encounter -- Discourses of Engagement -- Conclusion -- References.

In the well-worn debates about religious pluralism and the theology of religions there have been many different rubrics used to account for, comprehend, or engage with the religious other. This text is chiefly a work of Christian theology and seeks to bring the doctrine of creation and the theology of religions into dialogue.

This chapter introduces the terms of the question: what is the 'religion' and the 'pluralism' in 'religious pluralism'? Though their ideas were developed in a workshop at the European University Institute in 2015, contributors here and elsewhere in the volume speak from their own disciplinary traditions, taking different approaches to terminology as a result. Therefore, this chapter works across disciplines, providing an overview of some of the central ways in which different disciplines have approached and understood 'religious pluralism'. This chapter makes a particular distinction between what Rouméas terms theological, sociological, philosophical pluralisms alongside the idea of religious pluralism as a political ideal. This chapter draws attention to how different methodological and ideological approaches give rise to distinctive understandings of 'religious pluralism', as well as to how disciplinary-specific assumptions shape how the concept is interpreted.

This chapter introduces the terms of the question: what is the 'religion' and the 'pluralism' in 'religious pluralism'? Though their ideas were developed in a workshop at the European University Institute in 2015, contributors here and elsewhere in the volume speak from their own disciplinary traditions, taking different approaches to terminology as a result. Therefore, this chapter works across disciplines, providing an overview of some of the central ways in which different disciplines have approached and understood 'religious pluralism'. This chapter makes a particular distinction between what Rouméas terms theological, sociological, philosophical pluralisms alongside the idea of religious pluralism as a political ideal. This chapter draws attention to how different methodological and ideological approaches give rise to distinctive understandings of 'religious pluralism', as well as to how disciplinary-specific assumptions shape how the concept is interpreted.

For more than a decade, sociologists of religion have been debating the answer to a basic question: What is the relationship between religious pluralism and religious vitality? The old wisdom was that the relationship was negative, that pluralism undermines vitality. This view has been challenged by advocates of a supply-side model of religious vitality. They argue that the relationship is positive—that pluralism increases vitality—and this empirical claim has become foundational to the larger project of applying economic theory to religion. We review the relevant evidence and reach a straightforward conclusion: The empirical evidence does not support the claim that religious pluralism is positively associated with religious participation in any general sense. We discuss this conclusion's theoretical implications, and we identify potentially productive directions for future research on religious pluralism, church-state relations, and religious competition.It appears that North Americans are religious in spite of, not because of, religious pluralism. ( Olson 1998a :761).[R]eligious practice is strongly and positively associated with pluralism. ( Finke & Stark 1998 :762)