Religious Encounters in Transcultural Society : Collision, Alteration, and Transmission

This volume focuses on the various phenomena of religious encounters in a transcultural society where religion or religious traditions play a significant role in a multi-cultural concept. Religious Encounters in Transcultural Society is divided into three parts: Islamic encounters with regional religions, East Asian religious encounters, and alternative religious encounters. This book evokes the fact that religious encounters exist in every transcultural society even though they often remain hidden behind socio-cultural issues. The situation can be changed, but one culture cannot harmoniously and always contain two or multi-beliefs. The issue of religious encounters mostly arises in the transnational process of religious globalization.

Kevin N. Cawley is Associate Professor of Korean Religion and Philosophy, and Director of the Irish Institute of Korean Studies at University College Cork, Ireland.

Joshua Esler is a researcher and Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education and Director of the Indian Ocean Research Centre. He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Indo-Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia.

Milad Milani is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Western Sydney University, Australia and a School-based Member of the Institute for Culture and Society. He leads the Humanities Religious Studies Research Collective within the School of Arts, and is co-lead of the Sufi Studies Network, Monash University, Australia. He serves on the editorial board of Sophia and is co-editor of the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion. He is past President of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion (2023–2025). Dr Milani is an internationally recognised expert in the study of religion, with a focus on Islam and Sufism.