
This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement in
institutionalizing religious pluralism in the public life of contemporary societies
through the case study of Interfaith Scotland. It analyzes the organization and their
literature, demonstrating the ways in which they have cultivated a particular model of
religious pluralism compatible with a secular civic-cultural nationalism. It places this
case into a comparative discussion of the interfaith movement as an emerging global
phenomenon.
Liam T. Sutherland considers how Interfaith Scotland presents 'religions' as
equivalent, compatible bodies of ethical teachings through selective appeals to
textual traditions and their construction. It has also depended on conforming to the
'world religions paradigm', where it is only religions with global reach and cohesive
characteristics which require representation.
This volume sheds light on the wider relationship between the global interfaith
movement and nationalism; Sutherland explores how Interfaith Scotland encouraged
a common, seemingly 'apolitical' attachment to Scotland's democratic institutions
and cultural heritage, and especially the question of independence.
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