Complicated Conversation

ISSN: 1534-2816

Reframing the curricular challenge educators face after a decade of school deform, the books published in Peter Lang's Complicated Conversation Series testify to the ethical demands of our time, our place, our profession. What does it mean for us to teach now, in an era structured by political polarization, economic destabilization, and the prospect of climate catastrophe? Each of the books in the Complicated Conversation Series provides provocative paths, theoretical and practical, to a very different future. In this resounding series of scholarly and pedagogical interventions into the nightmare that is the present, we hear once again the sound of silence breaking, supporting us to rearticulate our pedagogical convictions in this time of terrorism, reframing curriculum as committed to the complicated conversation that is intercultural communication, self-understanding, and global justice.

93 publications

Histories of Religious Pluralism

ISSN: 2632-3257

This new book series will show that a critical understanding of religious pluralism in the past is of vital significance to debates about identity, diversity, and co-existence in the present. Studies will focus on using a historical perspective to address one of three key themes in the period between 1500 and 2000 CE: intra-religious pluralism; inter-religious pluralism; or, religion, secularism, and the nation state. Within this frame of reference, constructive contrasts between a wide range of foci, approaches, and viewpoints will be keenly encouraged. The series will champion established lines of research in political, social, cultural, and gendered histories of religious pluralism – e.g. studies on liberty, persecution, and toleration – whilst also encouraging novel ways of transcending a scholarly discourse which is dominated by ideologies and methodologies derived from the social sciences – e.g. by studies on the theological and literary dimensions of conflict, cohesion, and community. The series will embrace scholarship on subjects from any part of the world. European and extra-European perspectives that complement traditional Anglo-American thinking are particularly welcome. As the ‘global turn’ continues to energize new types of enquiry, the series will also seek to advance studies of indigenous and displaced religious groups. With this scope there is a reflexive acknowledgement that the rationale for and defining concepts of the series are grounded in a ‘western’ intellectual tradition; however, this should serve as a challenge to prospective authors to pioneer new dialogues between ‘western’ and ‘non-western’ approaches and foci, or even surpass the dichotomy altogether. An emphasis will be given to promoting the best research of early career scholars from around the world, whilst also giving more established academics the opportunity to develop their multimedia policy-orientated work – e.g. podcasts, blogs, talks, press briefings, reports for thinktanks, governments, and public agencies etc. – into a book that would engage peers and students alike. In association with Cambridge Institute on Religion and International Studies

3 publications

American Liberal Religious Thought

9 publications

Studies in the History of Religious and Political Pluralism

ISSN: 1661-1985

This series addresses a new need. The constitution of many contemporary communities is radically diverse, and the need is to think anew about them. Through a mixture of edited collections and single-authored volumes, the series aims both to examine how radical diversity has arisen in the religious and political constitution of society and to analyse the implications for the future so as to help ensure the harmonious relations between communities and the best practice of government. Studies in the History of Religious and Political Pluralism will evaluate new trends and theories and make available the findings of empirical research which demonstrates the nature of the pluralistic world in which we live.

11 publications

Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes

ISSN: 0721-3638

The books within this series include a broad range of topics within the category of Religious Education. Cette collection présente une riche palette de travaux scientifiques dans le domaine de la Pédagogie religieuse. In dieser Reihe erscheinen wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zu einem breiten Themenspektrum im Fachgebiet Religionspädagogik.

19 publications

Currents in Media, Social and Religious Movements in the Middle East

ISSN: 2576-2133

4 publications

Theion

ISSN: 0943-9587

Das Interesse der von internationalen Autoren gestalteten Reihe besteht in der Veröffentlichung von religionskundlichen Arbeiten, die Themen aus dem gesamten Bereich der Kulturformen von Religion aufgreifen, insbesondere aber solche, die im etablierten akademischen Publikationswesen weniger oder gar nicht berücksichtigt werden. Dies gilt nicht nur im Hinblick auf die christlichen, sondern gerade auch auf die islamischen, Hindu, buddhistischen, jüdischen und anderen Religionskulturen. Zur Erschließung von Religionskultur wird auf methodische und konzeptionelle Einseitigkeit verzichtet, und das ganze Spektrum systematischer, historischer und phänomenologischer Methoden sowie unterschiedlicher theoretischer Zugangsweisen zum Verständnis von Religion in all ihren Erscheinungsweisen herangezogen.

34 publications