Book chapter
Interfaith Engagement: The State of the Art
Interfaith Engagement Beyond the Divide: Approaches, Experiences, and Practices, pp.1-25
Springer Nature Singapore
2023
Abstract
The planetary-scale problems of our current era make contemporary interfaith research, education and practice a fertile agenda for sustainable human development, locally, nationally, and internationally. The reasons are manifold and compelling and are nurtured by both hindsight and foresight. Looking back, human experience of past interreligious discord reflects a long and harrowing list of disturbing consequences that reverberate across time and space but also offer bright glimmers of hope. Looking ahead, many global challenges now facing humanity can only be mastered if humans from diverse religious backgrounds and faith traditions can meaningfully collaborate in support of human rights, reconciliation, sustainability, justice, and peace. Set against this background, this chapter explores opportunities for interfaith engagement in the twenty-first century. Offering an overview of interfaith approaches, historical examples, and future prospects, this chapter posits that future human well-being, deferential geopolitics, and constructive international relations are, at least in part, predicated on widely shared interfaith consciousness. It also introduces the chapters of this book and thereby showcases both examples of innovative conceptual and empirical research, and fieldwork-informed case studies that invite imitation, application, and multiplication in different settings.
Details
- Title
- Interfaith Engagement: The State of the Art
- Authors
- Johannes M. Luetz (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyDenise A. Austin (Author) - Leaders InstituteAdis Duderija (Author) - Griffith University
- Contributors
- Johannes Michael Luetz (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - LegacyDenise A Austin (Editor) - Leaders InstituteAdis Duderija (Editor) - Griffith University
- Publication details
- Interfaith Engagement Beyond the Divide: Approaches, Experiences, and Practices, pp.1-25
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Singapore
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-99-3862-9_1; 10.1007/978-981-99-3862-9
- ISBN
- 9819938627; 9789819938629
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99975397602621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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