Regulating Religious Coexistence

10.33540/667 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Erik Henk Meinema
Keyword(s):  
Religious Coexistence

Biographies of a Reformation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Christ
Keyword(s):  
East Germany ◽  
Shared Spaces ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Conscious Choice ◽  
Modus Vivendi ◽  
Western Bohemia ◽  
Religious Coexistence

This monograph investigates how religious coexistence functioned in six towns in the multiconfessional region of Upper Lusatia in Western Bohemia. Lutherans and Catholics found a feasible modus vivendi through written agreements and regular negotiations. This meant that the Habsburg kings of Bohemia ruled over a Lutheran region. Lutherans and Catholics in Upper Lusatia shared spaces, objects, and rituals. Catholics adopted elements previously seen as a firm part of a Lutheran confessional culture. Lutherans, too, were willing to incorporate Catholic elements into their religiosity. Some of these overlaps were subconscious, while others were a conscious choice. This monograph provides a new narrative of the Reformation and shows that the concept of the ‘urban Reformation’, where towns are seen as centres of Lutheranism has to be reassessed, particularly in towns in former East Germany, where much work remains to be done. It shows that in a region like Upper Lusatia, which did not have a political centre and underwent a complex Reformation with many different actors, there was no clear confessionalization. By approaching the Upper Lusatian Reformation through important individuals, this monograph shows how they had to negotiate their religiosity, resulting in cross-confessional exchange and syncretism.

Ethno-Religious Coexistence and Plurality in Cyprus under British Rule (1878—1960)

2009 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Dietzel ◽  
Vasilios N. Makrides
Keyword(s):  
British Rule ◽  
Religious Coexistence

Religion in the Mirror of Law

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
State Law ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
Religious Coexistence ◽  
Theory Of Law

This volume has as its subject reflections on religious affiliation in the theory of law, political constitutions and the reality of law in Eastern Europe. How did parliamentary representations, religious communities, scholars and writers imagine an ethnically as well as religiously heterogenous society? How did changes in power affect the life and the institutions of the various religious communities? On which levels did religious law, enlightened reason and state law compete against each other? How was ethnic and religious coexistence conceived theoretically and enacted locally? The contributions to this volume, presenting the outcome of an international conference held in Lviv, discuss these questions from the perspectives of historical, anthropological, legal and literary sciences.

Majorities, Minorities, and Tolerance

2021 ◽  
pp. 367-386
Author(s):  
Azmi Bishara
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Religious Coexistence ◽  
Past Injustices

This chapter discusses the concepts of ‘majority’ and ‘minority’ and their relationship to victimhood and tolerance. The chapter argues that one of the most important features of sectarianism is that it promotes a culture of victimhood in any group that it touches. Constant evocations of past injustices are intended to produce symbolic capital for the modern ta’ifa and emphasize its continuity with this past (its identity). This chapter also notes that the conflation of sectarian minority and majority with democratic minority and majority is one of the greatest obstacles to true democracy today. The chapter suggests that tolerance is originally a religious discourse but can be adopted to promote religious coexistence by a state with an official religion. However, it is an insufficient basis on which to establish democratic pluralism.

Contemporary Korean Religious Change in the East-West Religious Context

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-19
Author(s):  
Chongsuh Kim ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Change ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Religious Coexistence ◽  
East West

The most prominent characteristics of the religious situation in contemporary Korea can be said to be the following: first, the religious population is large and is increasing rapidly at present. Second, in a situation of multi-religious coexistence, no particular religion takes precedence over another; Western religions, however, are challenging and gradually overwhelming Eastern religions. In this paper, I argue that these two features are closely related to each other. When compared with other countries, religions are growing more rapidly in Korea and with an unusual level of enthusiasm, a situation which has emerged as a result of the unprecedented inter-religious clash that has developed between Eastern and Western religions.

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