Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Asia

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Finucane, Juliana (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Feener, R. Michael (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: ARI - Springer Asia Series ; 4
• Θέματα: Religion.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Religious Studies.; Religious Studies, general.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

This volume brings together a range of critical studies that explore diverse ways in which processes of globalization pose new challenges and offer new opportunities for religious groups to propagate their beliefs in contemporary Asian contexts. Proselytizing tests the limits of religious pluralism,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Official Religions, State Secularisms, and the Structures of Religious Pluralism.- Chapter 2 Proselytization, Religious Diversity and the State in Indonesia: The Offense of Deceiving a Child to Change Religion.- Chapter 3 Conversion and Controversy: Reshaping the Boundaries of Malaysian Pluralism
• Chapter 4 The Tablighi Jama`at in West Papua, Indonesia: The Impact of a Lay Missionary Movement in a Plural Multi-religious and Multi-ethnic setting.- Chapter 5 Religious Learning Circles and Da`wa: The Modalities of Educated Bangladeshi Women Preaching Islam.- Chapter 6 Proselytizing, Peacework, and Public Relations: Soka Gakkai’s commitment to Interreligious Harmony in Singapore
• Chapter 7 Pluralist Secularism and the Displacements of Christian Proselytizing in Singapore
• Chapter 8 Performing Identities: State-ISKCON Interactions in Singapore.- Chapter 9 “We Are Not a Religion”: Secularization and Religious Territoriality of the Yiguan Dao (Unity Way) in Singapore
• Chapter 10 From Diasporic to Ecumenical: The Buddhist Tzu Chi (Ciji) Movement in Malaysia.- Chapter 11 Conversion and Anti-Conversion in Contemporary Sri Lanka: Pentecostal Christian Evangelism and Theravada Buddhist Views on the Ethics of Religious Attraction.- Chapter 12 Pluralism and its Discontents: Buddhism and Proselytizing in Modern China
• Contributor information.-Index.