The Global Politics of Interreligious Dialogue - Michael D. Driessen

The Global Politics of Interreligious Dialogue

Religious Change, Citizenship, and Solidarity in the Middle East
Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-767167-2 (ISBN)
67,30 inkl. MwSt
Over the last thirty years, governments across the globe have formalized new relationships with religious communities through their domestic and foreign policies and have variously sought to manage, support, marginalize, and coopt religious forces through them. Many scholars view these policies as evidence of the "return of religion" to global politics although there is little consensus about the exact meaning, shape, or future of this political turn.

In The Global Politics of Interreligious Dialogue, Michael D. Driessen examines the growth of state-sponsored interreligious dialogue initiatives in the Middle East and their use as a policy instrument for engaging with religious communities and ideas. Using a novel theoretical framework and drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Driessen explores both the history of interreligious dialogue and the evolution of theological approaches to religious pluralism in the traditions of Roman Catholicism and Sunni Islam. He analyzes state-centric accounts of interreligious dialogue and conceptualizes new ideas and practices of citizenship, religious pluralism, and social solidarity that characterize dialogue initiatives in the region.

To make his case, Driessen presents four studies of dialogue in the Middle East--the Focolare Community in Algeria, the Adyan Foundation in Lebanon, KAICIID of Saudi Arabia, and DICID of Qatar--and highlights key interreligious dialogue declarations produced in the broader Middle East over the last two decades. Compelling and nuanced, The Global Politics of Interreligious Dialogue illustrates how religion operates in contemporary global politics, offering important lessons about the development of alternative models of democracy, citizenship, and modernity.

Michael D. Driessen is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, where he directs the MA program in International Affairs. He is also Director of the Rome Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics. He received his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and has been a post-doctoral fellow at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar as well as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. He is the author of Religion and Democratization, and his articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, Sociology of Religion, Politics and Religion, and Democratization. Driessen also serves as an advisor for the Adyan Foundation in Lebanon.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. Politics

1. Geopolitics and Interreligious Dialogue
2. Political Theory and Interreligious Dialogue

Part II: Theologies

3. A Brief History of Interreligious Dialogue
4. Catholicism and Interreligious Dialogue
5. Islam and Interreligious Dialogue

Part III: Practices

6. Comparative Contexts
7. The Focolare Community (Algeria)
8. The Adyan Foundation (Lebanon)
9. Interreligious Engagement in the Gulf: DICID (Qatar) and KAICIID (Saudi Arabia)

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 237 x 162 mm
Gewicht 503 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-19-767167-5 / 0197671675
ISBN-13 978-0-19-767167-2 / 9780197671672
Zustand Neuware
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