This book examines the growing diversity of religions and worldviews across East & Southeast Asia, and the factors affecting prospects for covenantal pluralism in these regions.
The chapters originally appeared as research articles in the journal The Review of Faith & International Affairs.
This book examines the growing diversity of religions and worldviews across East & Southeast Asia, and the factors affecting prospects for 'covenantal pluralism' in these regions.
According to the Pew Religious Diversity Index, half of the worlds most religiously diverse countries are in Asia. The presence of deep religious/worldview difference is often seen as a potential threat to socio-political cohesion or even as a source of violent conflict. Yet in Asia (as elsewhere) the degree of this diversity is not consistently associated with socio-political problems. Indeed, while religious difference is implicated in some social challenges, there are also many instances of respectful multi-faith engagement, practical collaboration, and peaceful debate.
Whether or not religious/worldview difference is part of a positive pluralism depends on a complex array of legal and cultural conditions. This book explores these dynamics and contingencies in Asia, structuring the inquiry according to the theory of 'covenantal pluralism'. Covenantal pluralist theory calls for (a) a constitutional order characterized by freedom of religion/conscience and equality of rights and responsibilities, combined with (b) a culture of practical religious literacy and virtues of mutual respect and protection.
Volume I offers a pioneering exploration of the prospects for this robust and non-relativistic type of pluralism in East & Southeast Asia. (Volume II examines South & Central Asia.) The chapters in these volumes originally appeared as research articles in a series on covenantal pluralism published by The Review of Faith & International Affairs.
Introduction Lessons from Asia in Howand How Notto Live with Deep
Diversity: An Introduction to Volume I SECTION 1: EAST ASIA
1. Covenantal
Pluralism In Homogenous Japan: Finding A Space for Religious Pluralism
2.
Religious Diversity and Religious Governance in South Korea: From Nominal to
Covenantal Pluralism
3. Taiwans Covenantal Pluralism
4. Multi-faith Dynamics
in Hong Kong: From Pluralism to Politicization
5. Prospects for Covenantal
Pluralism in the People's Republic of China: A Reflection on State Policy and
Muslim Minorities
6. Chinese Protestantism, Cyber Public Space, and the
Possibility of Covenantal Pluralism SECTION 2: SOUTHEAST ASIA
7. Islam and
Covenantal Pluralism in Indonesia: A Critical Juncture Analysis
8. Malaysias
Creeping Islamizationand Dimming Prospects for Covenantal Pluralism
9.
Religious Diversity and Covenantal Pluralism in the Philippines
10.
Regulating Pluralism: Laws on Religious Harmony and Possibilities for Robust
Pluralism in Singapore
11. Buddhist Protectionism, Political Imaginaries of
Belonging, and Prospects for Covenantal Pluralism in Myanmar
12. The
Ambiguous Allure of Ashoka: Buddhist Kingship as Precedent, Potentiality, and
Pitfall for Covenantal Pluralism in Thailand
13. Controlled Religious
Plurality: Possibilities for Covenantal Pluralism in Vietnam
14. Covenantal
Pluralism: Resonances and Dissonances in Cambodia
15. Cultural Congruency and
Covenantal Pluralism in the Lao PDR
Dennis R. Hoover (D.Phil., Oxford) is Editor of The Review of Faith & International Affairs, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Engagement, and an advisor to the Templeton Religion Trust. His recent books include The Routledge Handbook of Religious Literacy, Pluralism, and Global Engagement, co-edited with Chris Seiple.
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