Multi-religious Context Research Articles

'Mixing and Matching': The Shape of Everyday Hindu Religiosity in Singapore

AbstractReligious pluralism is the norm rather than the exception in contemporary societies but this is by no means a recent phenomenon. This is also an empirical field that students of religion have long engaged theoretically. Such scholarly attention has generated a plethora of conceptual tools to make sense of religious encounters in multi-religious settings. As such, a number of phrases — 'religious pluralism,' 'religious diversity' and 'multi-religiosity' — abound in the relevant literature and the notions of pluralism, multiplicity and diversity inform these discussions. Such expressions as 'religious syncretism' and 'religious hybridisation' have also been proposed to address the various interactions witnessed across a variety of religious traditions. I argue that this terminology and the conceptual frames it advances need to be queried in order to assess their value and relevance for theorising interactions amongst religious traditions. This paper focuses on everyday forms of Hindu religiosity in urban Singapore and the kinds of engagement and participation that occur across religious traditions in this multi-religious context. Through my ethnography, I problematise the above-mentioned noted categories, as well as the sense-making strategies they have led to, while proposing alternative modes of approaching the realm of everyday religiosity at the level of practice.

The Asian Pursuit of Trinitarian Theology in a Multireligious Context

AbstractDoes the Christian theology of the Trinity in an Asian context mesh with a “life horizon” of religious pluralism? Like an endeavor of the Asian face of Christology, several Asian scholars have attempted to construct an Asian conceptualization of the Trinity with respect to spirituality, wisdom, and minjung in a life horizon of world religions. This writing introduces an Asian theology of the Trinity and constructs a theology of the Trinity from an Asian irregular perspective.

Conversion and the Family: Chinese Hare Krishnas

The multi-cultural and multi-religious context of the globalised world often results in unlikely interactions between the triad of people, cultures, and religion. The result may be that people embrace divergent systems of beliefs. This article explores the dynamics of such interaction within the private domain of the family, when ethnic Chinese adopt an alien faith, that of the Hare Krishna. Four typologies of interactions between convert and family members are proposed, ranging from the most volatile to the most harmonious. These are categorised as contentious, neutral, accommodative, and supportive. The combinations of factors that lead to each type of interaction, such as family–convert relationship, religious identity of family member, residence of the convert, family members’ perception of the Hare Krishna, and the extent of external practices adopted by the converts, are discussed. In particular, qualitative comparative analysis is applied to investigate how these variables combine to lead to each typology.

Choi, Korean Women and God: Experiencing God in a Multi-religious Colonial Context

Choi, <i>Korean Women and God: Experiencing God in a Multi-religious Colonial Context</i>

Spiritual Care in a Multi-Religious Context

Spiritual Care in a Multi-Religious Context

Spiritual Care in a Multi-Religious Context

Spiritual care is an essential component of palliative care because spirituality is an important part of suffering and the relief of pain and suffering. It is especially important in the developing world where medical and comfort resources are limited. Spiritual resources in the context of many religions are described. Understanding pain from a spiritual perspective and approaches when spiritual resources appear ineffective are discussed. The role of spiritual resources in end-of-life care are described in the context of taking a spiritual inventory. The importance of all palliative care clinicians understanding these concepts is emphasized.

In Support of Felix Wilfred: Some Implications of Wittgenstein's World‐Pictures for Interreligious Dialogue

Felix Wilfred, a Catholic theologian working in an Indian context, provides a trenchant critique of traditional Western theology’s ability to find relevance in India’s multi-religious context. This article explores how Ludwig Wittgenstein’s concept of world-pictures provides a philosophical support for Wilfred’s critique and indicates a different, more productive model of interreligious dialogue.There is a large amount of interreligious dialogue that is interested in ascertaining what is indeed true about the world. When different religious traditions make different and sometimes conflicting assertions about the world, the question arises about the relationship between these various claims. As these claims are part and parcel of the traditions themselves, springing from the core of the various religions, the question becomes how the religious systems themselves are related and what is the relationship between the truth claims of various religions? Various approaches to this can be categorized in three broad categories, exclusivist, inclusivist and relativist.In his last book, On Certainty, Ludwig Wittgenstein addressed the problem of making truth-claims, how anyone can validly say they were “certain” that something was indeed the case. He noticed that truth- claims were intrinsically connected to world-pictures with which they mutually arise, and that no truth-claim can therefore claim a status that transcends all world-pictures. This critique casts suspicion on the usefulness of the exclusivist-inclusivist-relativist categorization of theories of religious pluralism and points to a more productive model of interreligious dialogue that respects and utilizes the differences in different religions. Rather than comparing statements made by various faiths and determining which in fact are correct, I propose a model of dialogue that allows each side to attain a better perspective on their own position as they come to see a different way of understanding the world.

Reflexiones canónicas sobre el reconocimiento dado a las parejas estables en España

Since 1998, many of Spain's regional authorities have introduced laws which give some recognition to co-habitation outside marriage, as has happened in most of Europe. At the same time we can observe that pattern of marriage in Spain is changing very quickly. This present study analyses the content that the legislator has wanted to give to expressions like «de facto unions» or «stable couples» and compares them with civil marriage. The article also seeks to demonstrate the current variety within canon law which is applicable to those who contract marriage in the new multicultural and multi-religious context of Spain, taking into account the diversity of norms which the two codes -the CIC and the CCEO-offer, and the juridical and confessional diversity of those who contract marriage. On this basis, the article studies both the formal canonical legitimacy of have recourse to the types of «couple» recognized in the light of their confessional situation, and also the similarity/dissimilarity of these unions with the forma sacramenti of marriage. Finally, the author looks at the possibility of canonically rectifying (convalidation and sanation) the unions of these couples in order to effect a marriage. This study restores the distinction between invalid marriages and non-existent marriages, conceding however that there is also a difference between «recognized civil unions» and simple «de facto unions».

The Idea of a “Beginningless” World‐Process

This paper, while seeking to expose some of the basic ideas of Hindu cosmology, focuses on the philosophical and soteriological dimensions of the notions of "beginning" and "beginningless" in the discourses associated with dominant world-religions. It is hoped that a deeper grasp of these issues in a multi-religious context will help to bridge the distance between diverse traditions of thinking as well as facilitate the science-religion dialogue.

Ecumenism in a Multi‐Religious Context

Ecumenism in a Multi‐Religious Context

EXPERIENCE OF RELIGIOUS PLURALITY IN KOREA

International Review of MissionVolume 88, Issue 351 p. 399-413 EXPERIENCE OF RELIGIOUS PLURALITY IN KOREA ITS THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS MOONJANG LEE, MOONJANG LEE Dr Moonjang Lee lectures in Asian Theology at the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, New College, Edinburgh, Scotland.Search for more papers by this author MOONJANG LEE, MOONJANG LEE Dr Moonjang Lee lectures in Asian Theology at the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, New College, Edinburgh, Scotland.Search for more papers by this author First published: 25 March 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6631.1999.tb00168.xCitations: 3 Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume88, Issue351October 1999Pages 399-413 RelatedInformation

Dialogue and Synthesis: Sot'aesan's Perspective and Examples

The author explores three issues: (1) how Sot'aesan's (founder of Won Buddhist) dialogical and synthetical methods work by showing concrete examples of his encounters with other religious traditions, mainly three Eastern religious traditions-Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism; (2) how Sot'aesan synthesizes the Christian dimension of faith into a non-theistic tradition of the East since Sot'aesan encountered Christian believers on several occasions; and (3) issues that might derive from the further expansion of Sot'aesan's perspective in the multireligious context of the world. Let me begin by defining five terms. Won Buddhism: Won means in Korean, a symbol of Buddha's cosmic body (Dharmakaya), the enlightened nature of all sentient beings, and the noumenal nature of all beings in the universe. Buddhism means a religion of enlightenment. Won Buddhism thus teaches how to be enlightened to the truth that the whole universe is nohe other than the manifestation of Buddha's cosmic body, the enlightened nature of all sentient beings and the noumenal nature of all beings in the universe. Sot'aesan: the founder of Won Buddhism. Pak, Chungbin is his full name and Sot'aesan is his Dharma name. He was born on May 5, 1891, accomplished the great awakening at the age of twenty-six after twenty years' incessant search for Truth, founded the Won Buddhist order in order to deliver people of the contemporary world enslaved by materialism due to the loss of spiritual power, and passed away at the age of fifty-three on June 1, 1943, after a twenty-eight year mission. Il-Won: unitary circle representing Dharmakaya Buddha. The figure of IIWon (0, or Il-Won-Sang) is enshrined in the Won Buddhist Temple, instead of Buddha's images, namely Nirmanakaya Buddha. Eun: grace or beneficence, representing Sot'aesan's reformulation of the Buddhist concept of causal dependent origination. Sot'aesan defines the funBuddhist-Christian Studies 17 (1997). ? by University of Hawai'i Press. All rights reserved. This content downloaded from 207.46.13.57 on Thu, 08 Sep 2016 05:17:06 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms

Godsdienstige perspektiewe in die heropbou van die gemeenskap

Religious perspectives in the reconstruction of the society The multi-religious context in South Africa is a fact and must be taken into account in any effort towards reconstruction and development of the society. The different religiOns are challenged to participate in the process of reconstruction. In many ways they can contribute positively towards the process. There are however also elements in religions which can hinder and obstruct the process. 17lis article considers a number of perspectives in Islam, Hinduism, African Traditional Religion and Christianity which can have a positive or negative influence on the Reconstruction and Development Program in South Africa.