RT Article
T1 Cosmopolitan Modes of Governance of Religious Diversity across Europe
JF Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
VO 6
IS 2
SP 533
OP 549
A1 Koch, Anne 1971-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1749484366
AB Abstract From the various contingent cases of interreligious dialogue ( IRD ) across European countries presented at the conference, a systematic cross-regional comparison and system-theory informed analysis is suggested from a cultural study of religion understanding. Along the coordinates of system integration, social integration and cosmopolitanism (as developed in political sciences by U. Beck, E. Grande, N. Sznaider) an interpretation of the specific way of governance is proposed and delineated from other explanations like IRD as part of a neoliberal regime or a type of secularism. The paper concludes how IRD initiatives, besides other effects, form cosmopolitan values of open coordination, risk management, and mutual recognition and by this contribute to their institutionalization. Cosmopolitanism is favoured as policy paradigm for religious diversity as it allows for multi-level communication in-between global localities, changes perspectives with marginalized and draws conclusions from that for regulating diversity without regulating individuals.
K1 Interreligious Dialogue
K1 religion in Europe
K1 governance of religious diversity
K1 Religious Diversity
K1 inter faith
K1 Cosmopolitanism
DO 10.30965/23642807-00602015