CRS: Lessons in Contemporary Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Series: CRS Inter-Religious Action
Garrett Fitzgerald shares takeaways from the CRS case studies.
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Authorizing the Human Person in a Cosmopolitan Age: A Thematic Synthesis
How do religious and secular traditions approach and contest bioethical questions of human dignity and integrity? How can communities coexist peacefully in the wake of unprecedented migrations or in the ashes of intercommunal violence? We weave together the major themes of the CM Rome 2015 plenary conference in a synthetic account that brings to bear relevant scholarship and looks both back at CM’s research trajectory, as well as forward to the future research and outreach agenda of the CM initiative.
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Reflections on Rome: Keeping Particularities In
Series: Rome 2016
The intellectual and social histories of humanisms show how they can slip all too easily and all too comfortably into a drive against differences and, thus, against pluralism.
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Atalia Omer: A Response to Jan-Werner Müller
Series: Rome 2016
A “democracy” that lacks a fundamental commitment to pluralism opens the door to totalitarianism.
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Michael Driessen: A Response to Jan-Werner Müller’s Remarks
Series: Rome 2016
The identity politics at work here are dangerously illiberal and run counter to the hopes of postwar European institutions.
Read More →Struggling to Mieux Vivre Ensemble: The Sobering Reality of France’s new Plurality
2015 was a devastating year for France. The horrific Paris attacks of January and November gave rise to a climate of fear, suspicion, and social distrust, and present formidable and as of yet unresolved challenges for leaders and social actors to find new and more effective strategies to mieux vivre ensemble (live better together). Read the full article »
Read More →Los Angeles: A Microcosm for National Conversations on Religion, Public Life and Deep Diversity
The city of Los Angeles—a diverse, cosmopolitan, dynamically changing landscape—provides unique insights into how American Muslim and Catholic communities are engaging with the new plurality at different stages of their respective historical evolutions in the ever-changing American religious and legal-ethical landscape. Read the full article »
Read More →The New Western Plurality and Citizen Co-Existence
Over the past generation the unprecedented expansion of migration to Western countries has coincided with the global revitalization of religion. These two developments have raised deep questions about received values and practices of pluralist co-existence in Western societies—questions that are likely to remain at the heart of political and social debate in Western societies for some years to come. Read the full article »
Read More →A Conceptual Family: Secularism, Equality and Toleration
Suppose that we, taking our cue from the case of India, reverse accepted understandings that the secularisation of society is an essential pre-requisite for secularism, and assume that the two concepts — one social and the other political — may be independent of each other. The Indian experience of secularism offers valuable lessons on how plurality can be managed and accommodated within a framework of a secularism based on equality and toleration. Read the full article »
Read More →Nahdlatul Ulama: Good Governance and Religious Tolerance in Indonesia
Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia’s largest Islamic organization, has been poorly understood in the West. While most Western political commentators and policy makers absorb an almost daily dose of news or intelligence regarding Islamist extremist organizations or terrorist groups in the predominantly Muslim countries of the Middle East and Southeast Asia, there is far less information and understanding of Muslim peacemakers, moderate-progressive groups, and organizations that advocate for tolerance and pluralism. Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is one of the world’s foremost Muslim associations devoted to the spread of the Islamic message of justice, peace, and tolerance. Read the full article »
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