World Christianity and Interfaith Relations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Richard F.

Series:

World Christianity and Public Religion

World Christianity and Public Religion ; v.4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and other religions.

Freedom of religion.

Offenses against religion.

Fanaticism--Religious aspects.

Fanaticism.

Interfaith worship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : 1517 Media, 2022.

Summary:

World Christianity and Interfaith Relations makes the case that religion is not partitioned off from the secular in the Global South the way it is in the Global North. Rather, religion is deeply integrated into the lives of those in the Global South, even though "secularism" officially predominates.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

The World Christianity and Public Religion Series

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction

I: Religious Freedom, Intolerance, and Resurgent Nationalism

1. Counteracting Resurgent Buddhist Nationalism and Fostering Interreligious Collaboration in Contemporary Burma

2. Emerging Cooperation among Minorities in Defense of Indian Secularism since the Adoption of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) under the BJP

3. Religious Intolerance in Brazil: The Case of the Girl and the Stone

4. The Power of Rewriting History: Literature, Race, and Religion in Contemporary Brazil

II: Gender, Ecology, and Ethnographic Imagination

5. From the Amazon toward Women's Bodies: The Influence of Conservative Religious Discourse in the Dismantling of Brazilian Social Policies

6. From the Ruins of the End of the World: Necropolitics, Religion, and the Ecological Crisis in Brazil

7. Between Teas and Prayers: Disobedient Narratives of Two Amazonian Root Herbalists in São Paulo

III: Peace and Reconciliation Initiatives

8. Resisting the Lord's Resistance Army: How Was Interfaith Peace Activism Possible in Northern Uganda?

9. "Jos Is the Epicenter of Christianity": Ancestral Land Rights and the Despatializing of Identity in Jos North, Nigeria

10. "Bad Omen!": Naked Agency and Body Politics in Public Discourse and Contemporary World Christianity

IV: North-South/South-North and South-South Initiatives in Grassroots and Participatory Ecumenism

11. Embodying Transnational Christian-Muslim Solidarities in India and Canada

12. "No One Can Serve Christ and Caste": Indian Ecumenical Initiatives to Combat Caste

13. Shifting Theological Boundaries: The Encounter between Western Christianity and African Cultures and Religions in Southern Africa.

14. A New Pentecost?: The Story of Peoples in the History of the Global Christian Forum and Its Contribution to World Christianity

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Young, Richard F. World Christianity and Interfaith Relations

ISBN:

9781506448503

OCLC:

1338298335