混淆する宗教 In Between Religions : On Religious Hybridity and Belonging

著者名：Cornille, Catherine

Wiley（2026/09/01発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781394367375
• eISBN：9781394367382

Description

Navigates religious hybridity with a systematic typology and critical framework

As exposure to multiple religious traditions increases, scholars and practitioners face complex questions about religious belonging and identity. In Between Religions: On Religious Hybridity and Belonging surveys arguments for and against multiple religious belonging while offering a systematic typology of religious hybridity. Catherine Cornille, Professor of Comparative Theology at Boston College, examines this phenomenon from both individual and institutional perspectives.

This volume analyzes the constituent components of religious belonging and develops degrees and kinds of religious hybridity into a coherent framework. It maintains a critical realist view of discrete religions while acknowledging fluid boundaries. The final chapter explores how religious traditions themselves can engage constructively with hybridity, offering resources for theological and phenomenological reflection on interreligious engagement.

Readers will find:

• A comprehensive survey of scholarly arguments developed around multiple religious belonging and religious hybridity across diverse traditions and contexts
• Systematic analysis of what religious belonging entails, examining its dimensions and constituent components from phenomenological and theological perspectives
• A strong typology distinguishing various kinds and degrees of religious hybridity for clearer scholarly and practical discussion
• Critical examination of religious hybridity from the self-understanding of religious traditions themselves rather than solely from individual perspectives
• Constructive approaches for how religious traditions can engage with and learn from the phenomenon of religious hybridity

Designed for upper undergraduate and graduate courses in lived religion, interreligious dialogue, multiple religious belonging, religious pluralism, and comparative religion, In Between Religions provides scholars and students with analytical tools for understanding one of contemporary religion's most significant phenomena.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Religion and Belonging 8
Belonging through Initiation 9
Belonging to a Community 12
Believing and Belonging 14
Behaving and Belonging 17
Belonging to a Chain of Transmission 18
Belonging as Path to Freedom 21
Belonging as Shaping Identity 23
Belonging as a Means of Surrender 26
Belonging and Boundaries 28
Belonging or Affinity 31

2 Types of Hybridity 35
Voluntary versus Involuntary Religious Hybridity 37
Hybrid Religious Cultures 39
Inculturation 43
Hybrid Religious Families 47
Occasional and Permanent Religious Hybridity 49
Healing 51
Pilgrimage 53
Partial versus Full Religious Hybridity 55
Interreligious Dialogue 56
Comparative Theology 60
Spiritual but not Religious 61

3 Arguments for Religious Hybridity 64
All Religions Are Hybrid 65
We Are All Hybrids 69
Multiple Loves 72
Transcendent Unity of Religions 74
Common Mystical Experience 76
The Complementarity of Religions 78
Philosophical and Religious Hybridity 81
Hybrid Religious Practice 83
Religious Bilingualism 87
Multiple Selves 88
New Synthesis 90

4 Critiques of Religious Hybridity 93
Doctrinal Incompatibility 96
Practical Non-Compossibility 101
Syncretism 105
Appropriation 108
Spiritualization of Religion 111
Chasing Two Rabbits 113
Incomplete Conversion 115
Weakening of Traditions 118

5 Religious Hybridity as Inspiration 122
Liminality and Creativity 124
Embodiment of Interreligious Dialogue 127
Critical Mirror 130
Particularity and Surplus 133
Comparative Theological Learning 138
Sign of Abiding Religious Longing 142
Appeal of Exemplary Hybrids 144

CONCLUSION 149
BIBLIOGRAPHY 154
INDEX 167