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Social Movements, Cosmopolitanism and Multifaith Engagement

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This chapter examines the ultramodern rise of multifaith engagement from the perspective of social movement theory and cosmopolitan theory. It argues that the rise of the multifaith movement in ultramodernity, alongside other social movements of this period, provides a missing sociological narrative of cosmopolitan peacebuilding religious responses aimed at collaboratively countering global risks.

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  1. 1.

    Beck’s focus on movements, in his definition of methodological cosmopolitanism, reflects an emphasis on looser social forms rather than institutions in cosmopolitan theory. This has informed the methodology of this study, which focuses on multifaith actors and the multifaith movement rather than religious organisations, as discussed in more detail below.

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    The influence of Hindu and Buddhist leaders on the multifaith movement is discussed in more detail in Chapter 3.

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    A complete list of participants is included in Appendix 1.

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    As actors were selected as professional experts participating in the multifaith movement, and not as representatives of religious organisations, it would have been misleading to identify them according to their religious affiliation, although from participants’ titles and comments in many cases it is made quite obvious.

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Halafoff, A. (2013). Social Movements, Cosmopolitanism and Multifaith Engagement. In: The Multifaith Movement: Global Risks and Cosmopolitan Solutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5210-8_2

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