Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
8-2020
Abstract
This paper addresses the situation in Singapore, where a state of religious harmony has prevailed over the past few decades, though evidencing skirmishes and tensions periodically. These skirmishes are a consequence of exclusivist attitudes held by those with religion and those without religion. While some of the strategies that have been in place to address such exclusivist behaviours have been largely effective, the extent to which they have been successful in addressing, more fundamentally, exclusivist attitudes and beliefs is more questionable. Three key dialectics that operate in everyday interreligious encounter are identified to be consequential in countering exclusivism and promoting inclusivism. The first is the dialectic between ideology and praxis; the second is between enhancing interreligious interactions and interreligious understanding; and the third is between emphasising the personal and private in religion, and the communal and public.
Discipline
Asian Studies | Religion
Research Areas
Humanities
First Page
1
Last Page
14
Publisher
Interreligious Relations
City or Country
RSIS
Citation
KONG, Lily; WOODS, Orlando; and ABDUL WAHID, Acmal Zuheyr Iefan, "Countering exclusivism, promoting Inclusivism: The way forward for Singapore" (2020). Research Collection School of Social Sciences. Paper 3250.
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3250
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3250
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