The CEDAR Occasional Paper Series aims to initiate discussion about the role of practice and embodied knowledge in understanding issues of religion and public life. Contributors include CEDAR network alumni, staff, and associates who have been connected to the CEDAR experience and write from within their local contexts on issues of religion and public life. Tsotsi morris biography. The papers seek to develop a space where the academic, religious, political, and development worlds intersect, yielding new insights into the challenges of everyday life and the need to live better with difference.
The views expressed in the CEDAR Occasional Papers are those of the individual authors and are intended both to generate discussion and to extend the CEDAR experience.
The China Institute Occasional Paper Series is quarterly publication focused on contemporary China studies. Each issue features a scholarly essay on topical issues related to China. Occasional Papers The Occasional Papers are papers that significant works that generally stand alone are designed to generate informed discussion and new ideas that contribute to Army modernisation and the future of land power. The Occasional Papers seek both a domestic and global audience.
* Between 2008 and 2012 the CEDAR Occasional Paper Series was published as the ISSRPL Occasional Paper Series.
2015 – CEDAR Occasional Paper No. 8, by Sarah MacMillen
Abiding Issues Concerning Race and Religion in American Communities Sarah MacMillen With the recent news items on racial profiling and police actions against African Americans in the United States, a set of questions and problematics burst forward from a productive dialogue between sociological and religious views on the topics of race and diversity. Typically in…Read More »2014 – CEDAR Occasional Paper No. 7, by Asim Jusić
Actionable Pluralism and Toleration in Religiously Diverse Societies: For Whom and for What? Asim Jusić Multiculturalism is dead— and thank God for that. –graffito on a building in Bosnia In this paper I analyze and criticize the approach of pluralist and tolerationist theories to religious diversity in action. Following a discussion on actionable pluralist and…Read More »2013 – CEDAR Occasional Paper No. 6, by Lauren R. Kerby
Pluralism versus Tolerance: Turning Principles into Action in Interfaith Organizations Lauren R. Kerby In contemporary discussions of how societies manage religious diversity, two strategies are often juxtaposed: pluralism and tolerance. Both are attitudes that shape the kind of interaction between different religious groups in such a way that peace and social order are maintained. However,…Read More »2012 – ISSRPL Occasional Paper No. 5, by Maja Šoštarić
Fixing the House: The Challenge of Tolerating the “Other” in Public and in Private Maja Šoštarić “Imagine that a rat somehow enters your house. What do you do? Essentially, you have two options. One is to kill the rat. Another one is to fix the house.” (Indonesian kyai – Islamic scholar, during a visit to…Read More »
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* Between 2008 and 2012 the CEDAR Occasional Paper Series was published as the ISSRPL Occasional Paper Series.
2015 – CEDAR Occasional Paper No. 8, by Sarah MacMillen
Abiding Issues Concerning Race and Religion in American Communities Sarah MacMillen With the recent news items on racial profiling and police actions against African Americans in the United States, a set of questions and problematics burst forward from a productive dialogue between sociological and religious views on the topics of race and diversity. Typically in…Read More »2014 – CEDAR Occasional Paper No. 7, by Asim Jusić
Actionable Pluralism and Toleration in Religiously Diverse Societies: For Whom and for What? Asim Jusić Multiculturalism is dead— and thank God for that. –graffito on a building in Bosnia In this paper I analyze and criticize the approach of pluralist and tolerationist theories to religious diversity in action. Following a discussion on actionable pluralist and…Read More »2013 – CEDAR Occasional Paper No. 6, by Lauren R. Kerby
Pluralism versus Tolerance: Turning Principles into Action in Interfaith Organizations Lauren R. Kerby In contemporary discussions of how societies manage religious diversity, two strategies are often juxtaposed: pluralism and tolerance. Both are attitudes that shape the kind of interaction between different religious groups in such a way that peace and social order are maintained. However,…Read More »2012 – ISSRPL Occasional Paper No. 5, by Maja Šoštarić
Fixing the House: The Challenge of Tolerating the “Other” in Public and in Private Maja Šoštarić “Imagine that a rat somehow enters your house. What do you do? Essentially, you have two options. One is to kill the rat. Another one is to fix the house.” (Indonesian kyai – Islamic scholar, during a visit to…Read More »Occasional Paper Series Deutsch
2011 – ISSRPL Occasional Paper No. 4, by James W. McCarty, III
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Rejecting Utopias, Embracing Modesty: Reflections on Interreligious Peacebuilding in Light of the International Summer School on Religion and Public Life James W. McCarty, III My field of study, Christian Social Ethics, is a child of the “Social Gospel” movement.[i] At its best, this movement represents the incredible possibilities of constructive and theologically informed Christian political…Read More »Uc Occasional Paper Series
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