Religion for Another Possible World

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Religion for Another Possible World "
Tissa Balasuriya

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1066711
Doc. No	:	LA110340
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157254305774258708‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Tissa Balasuriya
Title & Author	:	Religion for Another Possible World [Article]\ Tissa Balasuriya
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Exchange
Date	:	2005
Volume/ Issue Number	:	34/3
Page No	:	179–207
Abstract	:	Figures derived from statistics show that large numbers of inhabitants of Europe have migrated all over the world in the past. Nowadays they still dominate economic and technological developments causing injustice in many countries, mainly outside Europe. As a result the economic system of the world is fundamentally unjust. Moreover the technological development supports the dominating powers at the cost of the poor and the oppressed. In the meantime a religious awakening is taking place. Unfortunately this religious renaissance tends to promote violence in many parts of the world. Therefore another religion is needed for another possible world. The second part of the article delineates the outlines of that other religion, which the main world religions seek for mutual contact and disclose the dangerous relationship between religion and power in many areas hoping to attain real conversion: choosing for the humanist core each world religion possesses. Figures derived from statistics show that large numbers of inhabitants of Europe have migrated all over the world in the past. Nowadays they still dominate economic and technological developments causing injustice in many countries, mainly outside Europe. As a result the economic system of the world is fundamentally unjust. Moreover the technological development supports the dominating powers at the cost of the poor and the oppressed. In the meantime a religious awakening is taking place. Unfortunately this religious renaissance tends to promote violence in many parts of the world. Therefore another religion is needed for another possible world. The second part of the article delineates the outlines of that other religion, which the main world religions seek for mutual contact and disclose the dangerous relationship between religion and power in many areas hoping to attain real conversion: choosing for the humanist core each world religion possesses.
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157254305774258708‬