Finding the Rights Questions about Religious Diversity

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-87
Author(s):  
Rita M. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Spiritual Disciplines ◽  
The Other

This article argues that all current theologies of religion share the presupposition that differences among religions are a problem, even a mistake, and that unity or agreement would be preferable to difference and religious diversity. But theologians of religion need to start at the other end of the puzzle, conceding from the get-go that religious diversity is here to stay, is inevitable, normal, natural, and, therefore, not the major problem or issue. The important questions are not about them, the others who are different from us, but about us. Why do we dislike diversity so much? Why does it make us so uncomfortable? Why does difference so frequently elicit the response of ranking the different options hierarchically? And, most important of all, how can we cure our own discomfort with diversity? The article also suggests that we need to practice the spiritual disciplines that help us overcome our egocentric preferences for a world in which everyone else would be just like us and can, instead, live comfortable in a world that accommodates vast differences.

Tolerance is theoretical and practical principles

1996 ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Mykhailo Babiy
Keyword(s):  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nodal Points ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The One ◽  
Ukrainian Society

Political ideological pluralism, religious diversity are characteristic features of modern Ukrainian society. On the one hand, multiculturalism, socio-political, religious differentiation of the latter appear as important characteristics of its democracy, as a practical expression of freedom, on the other - as a factor that led to the deconsocialization of society, gave rise to "nodal points" of tension, confrontational processes, in particular, in political and religious spheres.

Moderate Secularism in Europe in the Face of Integration Challenges: The Debate about Legal Pluralism and Multiculturalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-464
Author(s):  
Rosa María Martínez de Codes
Keyword(s):  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Disadvantage ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Sexual Equality ◽  
The Face ◽  
Key Issues

Public authorities in Europe are faced with increasing demands to accommodate religious diversity. This article traces some key issues concerning the limits of the secular State in Europe to accept and accommodate those ethno-religious minorities that are perceived to be partially different entities and claim some jurisdiction, without thereby rejecting guarantees from the receiving legal system. This multicultural challenge that minorities pose to institutionalized secularism is amongst the most complex political and long-term issues European states have to face. Such a challenge has not only to do with socio-economic disadvantage and discrimination in the labour markets but also with the constitutional status or corporate relationship with the State. On the other hand, European anxieties question whether or not Muslims can be and are willing to be integrated into European society and its political values; in particular, values of freedom, tolerance, democracy, sexual equality and secularism. Across Europe, multiculturalism seems to be in retreat and ‘integration’ is once again the watchword.

scholarly journals Kebinekaan Agama dan Budaya dalam Tafsir Al-Iklīl Fī Ma‘ānī Al-Tanzīl

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-126
Author(s):  
Ahmad Zainal Abidin ◽  
Fahma Maulida
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Mind

This paper contains a study of the dynamics of Miṣbāḥ Muṣṭafa interpretation of the verses of the Qur’an in the theme of religious diversity in the interpretation of al-Iklīl fī Ma‘ānī al-Tanzīl. The dynamics are seen in the interpretation of the verse about the status of heresy and safety of non-Muslims in the hereafter. Besides explaining the interpretation of the issues related to the above problem, this paper also wants to explore further the interpretation of Miṣbā ḥ Muṣṭafā about religious diversity, which in its interpretation on one side of the mind is still relevant to the context of Indonesian social relations. But on the other hand it contradicts him. With the descriptive-explorative method, this paper discovers four principles of religious diversity in Tafsir al-Iklīl, namely: 1) diversity as sunnatullāh, as illustrated in the Misbah interpretation which believes in diversity such as Muslims and non-Muslims. 2) Islamic recognition of the existence of other religions, which is reflected in the absence of coercion in choosing religion as its belief. 3) the ability of non-Muslims to ask for protection from Muslims, and 4) religious tolerance, reflected in the absence of prohibitions to their followers to do good and fair to non-Muslims as long as they do not do bad and denounce the religion of Islam.

Religionsunterricht in Ostdeutschland. Zu alten und neuen Herausforderungen

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Michael Domsgen ◽  
Frank M. Lütze
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
East Germany ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Instruction ◽  
Individual School ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Further Development

Abstract Religious education in East Germany is religious education in the plural. Different models stand side by side. Acceptance and structural anchoring in the individual school types also vary. Nevertheless, unifying challenges can be identified that need to be addressed. They make it clear that there is a need for a further development or readjustment of the models of religious instruction that on the one hand satisfies the positionality of religiosity, which is so important from the point of view of religious didactics, and on the other hand is capable of absorbing religious diversity and secularity on the part of students inside.

Statecraft, Witchcraft, God’s Craft: Religious Diversity and the Forces of Law in South Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-284
Author(s):  
Marian Burchardt
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One

AbstractLegal anthropologists and sociologists of religion increasingly recognize the importance of law in current controversies over religious diversity. Drawing on the case of South Africa, this article explores how such controversies are shaped by contestations over what counts as ‘religion’. Analyzing the historical context and emergent forms of institutional secularity from which contemporary contestations over religious diversity draw, the article explores debates and practices of classification around religion, tradition, and culture, and the ways in which these domains are co-constituted through their claims on the law: on the one hand through an analysis of religion-related jurisprudence; on the other hand through an examination of the debates on witchcraft, law, and religion. I argue that the production of judicial knowledge of ‘religion’, ‘culture’, and ‘tradition’ is tied up with contestations over the power to define the meaning of the domains. In fact, contrary to notions of constitutionality in which rights seem to exist prior to the claims made on their basis, in a fundamental sense rights struggles help to constitute the contemporary human rights dispensation. Against the Comaroffs’ claim that judicialization depoliticizes power struggles, I show that legal claims making remains vibrantly political.

scholarly journals Protecting Linguistic and Religious Minorities: Looking for Synergies among Legal Instruments

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 706
Author(s):  
Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
The One

Language and religion are two main cultural markers of collective identities and articulating factors at play in the majority-minority game. However, from a legal and political point of view, language and religion work very differently as factors for determining minorities. This is due, on the one hand, to their different connection with public bodies and, on the other hand, to the different role played by the two identity markers, more substantive in the case of religion and more instrumental in the case of language. Different forms of protection of linguistic and religious diversity and minorities have been developed so far. The two fields of protection have evolved separately and there has hardly been any dialogue between them. This article aims to analyze whether and how the usual forms of protection of linguistic diversity and linguistic minorities can be useful for the management of religious-based diversity or minorities. In this respect, linguistic diversity management draws more inspiration from religious diversity management techniques than the reverse. Nevertheless, a number of techniques that have been applied to the linguistic diversity protection may also play a potential role for the protection of religious diversity, opening the door to further synergies among legal instruments.

scholarly journals Religion and Religious Diversity within Education in a Social Pedagogical Context in Times of Crisis: Can Religious Education Contribute to Community Cohesion?

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marios Koukounaras-Liagkis
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Community Cohesion

In this article the author argues that the teaching of religion(s) in education, in a social pedagogical context, can encourage community cohesion especially when, during the current harsh crisis, the need for cohesion seems to be of paramount importance in enabling seemingly insurmountable problems to be overcome. At the same time minorities become vulnerable and diversity, a matter of high priority, comes to the fore. The author reviews evidence of research on the effect of educational intervention within Religious Education on student attitudes toward religious diversity. He proposes that constructivist methodology, using theatre/drama as a means of Religious Education, could give people the choice to be critical religious believers and active members in a society applying the fundamental social pedagogical principle of tolerance to and respect for the ‘other’.

scholarly journals FENOMENA URBAN SPIRITUALITAS SOLUSI ATAS KEGERSANGAN SPIRITUAL MASYARAKAT KOTA

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Mohammad Misbah
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Dimension ◽  
Great Chance ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Other Hand

Modernity has given a great chance to modern people to meet and pursue their material needs in one hand, but on the other hand, they may lose the other essential need like happiness, peace of soul, self identity, and self meaning. They lose the "self" and are alienated from themselves and their own World. The rise of NewAge phenomenon in Indonesia was marked by the birth of various spiritual touch / Sufism (mysticism / Sufism) in orderto meet the needs of the essence, happiness, peace of soul, self identity, and the other meanings that is a manifestation of the human dimension. Sufism emerged in a variety of adivities including thosewhich are not related to the organization tariqat, conventional Sufism, which is a form of organization tariqat, and ecledic mysticism, which is a form of religious diversity. From this came a growing spiritual phenomenon in Indonesia, particularly in urban communities (urbanspiritualitas/ urban Sufism) lately.

scholarly journals PLURALISME AGAMA DI INDONESIA (Tantangan dan Peluang Bagi Keutuhan Bangsa)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Julita Lestari S.Ag
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Truth Claim ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
The One ◽  
Two Sides

<p align="center">Abstrak</p><p>Keberagaman agama di satu sisi menjadikan perbedaan yang cenderung melahirkan perpecahan di kalangan umat beragama. Di sisi lain, keberagaman agama merupakan pemersatu umat karena saling menghargai perbedaan yang ada. Pluralisme yang melahirkan dua sisi ini menjadikan penting untuk dikaji. Indonesia merupakan salah satu negara yang menganut tidak hanya satu agama namun terdiri bermacam-macam agama, yaitu Islam, Kristen, Budha, Kong Hu chu, Hindudan agama-agama lainnya. Kepluralismean agama di Indonesia ini memiliki tantangan dan peluang tersendiri bagi keutuhan bangsa.  Tantangan terbesar Indonesia sebagai negara pluralisme adalah cenderung menimbulkan konflik. Dikarenakan setiap agama melakukan <em>truth claim</em> terhadap agamanya sendiri dan agama lain dianggap salah. Adapun peluang pluralisme agama di Indonesia bagi keutuhan bangsa yaitu lahirnya sikap toleran sesama umat karena mampu menghargai keragaman beragama.</p><p align="center">Abstract</p><p>Religious diversity on the one hand makes a difference that tends to give birth to divisions among religious communities. On the other hand, religious diversity is a unifying people because they respect each other's differences. Pluralism which gives birth to two sides makes it important to study. Indonesia is one country that adheres to not only one religion but consists of various religions, namely Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism, Hindudan and other religions. Religious pluralism in Indonesia has its own challenges and opportunities for national integrity. Indonesia's biggest challenge as a state of pluralism is that it tends to cause conflict. Because every religion makes truth claims against its own religion and other religions are considered wrong. The opportunity for religious pluralism in Indonesia for the integrity of the nation is the birth of a tolerant attitude among people because it is able to appreciate religious diversity.</p><p> </p><p> </p>

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