Social Cohesion, Peacebuilding, Human Rights, and Dialogue: Global Interreligious Perspectives (Currents of Encounter, 69)

Increasingly, discussions of religious difference and diversity are moving from the theological and theoretical towards the practical and contextual. This volume explores, through global cases and discussions, questions around social cohesion, peacebuilding, human rights, and dialogue across a range of traditions and locations. The book brings together case studies and authors from North America, Europe, and Australia as well as East and Southeast Asia to form a global dialogue about how religious diversity is conceptualised and enacted. The approach is multidisciplinary with bases in such fields as international relations, religious studies, and sociology, while it provides perspectives that come from both established scholars and up and coming academics.

Paul Hedges is Professor of Interreligious Studies at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Life Member at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He has previously published 15 books and over 90 scholarly papers, including Christian Polytheism? Polydox Theologies of Multi-devotional and Decolonial Praxis (Routledge, 2024).

Abdullah Saeed is Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on the negotiation of text and context, ijtihad and interpretation.

Nursheila Muez was a Senior Analyst at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University. She is the co-author of Secularism in Singapore: Asatizah’s Perspectives on its Reconcilability with Islam (2020).

Luca Farrow is an Associate Research Fellow at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He researches religion, law, and extremisms and is co-author of “Protection against Religious Hatred” in Freedom of Religion and Religious Pluralism (Bhuiyan and Zoethout eds.; Brill, 2023).