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In an era of increasing religious diversity and fluid identities, this book challenges conventional understandings of faith, identity, and religious affiliation. Drawing from intercultural philosophy, theology, religious studies, and social sciences, Daan F. Oostveen examines how individuals navigate belonging to multiple religious traditions, from Christian-Buddhist dual belonging to more fluid spiritual practices.
Through a comparative approach, the book explores Western and Chinese perspectives on religious hybridity, critiques the limitations of the world religions paradigm, and introduces rhizomatic belonging as a groundbreaking framework for understanding religious multiplicity. Engaging with Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy, feminist and postcolonial critiques, and lived religion studies, it offers a fresh perspective on how religious identities are shaped in today's interconnected world.
This book is essential reading for scholars of religious studies, philosophy, anthropology, and theology, as well as anyone interested in the evolving landscape of religious belonging in a globalized society.
Contents
Introduction 7
Chapter 1 36
Multiple religious belonging: a hermeneutical problem
1.1 Multiple religious belonging from the perspective of theology
1.1.1 Terminological diversity in theology
1.1.2 Pluralism and particularism
1.1.2.1 Multiple religious belonging from a pluralistic perspective
1.1.2.2 Multiple religious belonging from a particularistic perspective
1.1.3 Critiques of theology of religions
1.2 "Multiple religious belonging" in the social scientific study of religion
1.2.1 Terminological diversity in the social scientific study of religion
1.2.1.1 Syncretism
1.2.1.2 Spiritual, but not religious
1.2.1.3 From patchwork to hybridity
1.2.2 Approaches to multiple religious belonging in the social sciences
1.2.2.1 Lived religion
1.3 Hermeneutic of multiple religions and hermeneutic of religiosity
1.4 Conclusion
Chapter 2 84
Conceptual analysis of religious multiplicity, religion, and religious belonging
2.1. The multiple
2.1.1 Two hermeneutics, two understandings of religious multiplicity
2.1.2 Spatial multiplicity: hermeneutic of multiple religions
2.1.3 Temporal multiplicity: hermeneutic of religiosity
2.2. Religion
2.2.1 Historical overview of the concept of "religion"
2.2.2 Contemporary critiques of "religion"
2.2.3 Religion as a contested concept
2.3 Belonging
2.3.1 Theological critiques of belonging
2.3.2 Conceptual approaches to belonging
2.3.3 Three ideal types of religious belonging
2.3.4 Absence of belonging or a belonging of ultimate concern?
Chapter 3 144
A comparative approach to multiple religious belonging from the perspective of Chinese religion
3.1 Multiple religious belonging in Asia
3.2 Chinese understandings of religious diversity
3.3 Historical overview of hermeneutical reflections on religious diversity in China from the Han until the Ming
3.4 Pragmatic nature of Chinese religion
3.5 Contemporary religious hybridity in China
3.6 Religious belonging in China
3.7 The world religions paradigm in contemporary China
3.8 Conclusion
Chapter 4 181
Rhizomatic belonging as a tool to understand multiple religious belongings
4.1 Subverting the logic of the One
4.2 The arborescent schema and religious diversity
4.3 Multiple religious belonging and the rhizome
4.4 Principles of the rhizome and multiple religious belonging
4.5 Multiple religious belonging as assemblage
4.6 Rhizomatic belonging in China and the West
4.7 Conclusion
Conclusion 207
Bibliography 224
