| Title: | Religion and literature, identity and individual : resetting the Muslim-Christian encounter |
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| Authors: | ID Kersten, Carool (Author) |
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 URL - Source URL, visit https://doi.org/10.35469/poligrafi.2020.227
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  ZRS Koper - Science and Research Centre Koper
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| Abstract: | In the first two decades of the twenty-first century inter-faith encounters have become a casualty of a paradigm shift in the thinking about the global order from the political-ideological bi-polar worldview of the Cold War era to a multipolar world marred by the prospect of culture wars along civilisational fault lines shaped by religiously-informed identity politics. On the back of 9/11 and other atrocities perpetrated by violent extremists from Muslim backgrounds, in particular relations with Muslims and the Islamic world are coined in binary terms of us-versus-them. Drawing on earlier research on cosmopolitanism, cul-tural hybridity and liminality, this article examines counter narratives to such modes of dichotomous thinking. It also seeks to shift away from the abstrac-tions of collective religious identity formations to an appreciation of individual interpretations of religion. For that purpose, the article interrogates the notions of cultural schizophrenia, double genealogy and west-eastern affinities developed by philosophers and creative writers, such as Daryush Shayegan, Abdelwahab Meddeb, and Navid Kermani. |
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| Keywords: | religion, literature, culture, Islam, philosophy of religion |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 23.12.2020 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2020 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 5-26 |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 25, no. 99/100 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-14901  |
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| UDC: | 2-1:821.09 |
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| ISSN on article: | 1318-8828 |
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| DOI: | 10.35469/poligrafi.2020.227 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 46096387 |
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| Copyright: | ZRS Koper |
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 28.03.2022 |
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