Collaborative Work
A Conference and Workshop
11-13 October 2007
Pluralism has been an important underlying logic within many recent
discussions and debates about tolerance, difference, and democracy
in multicultural societies, but it has not fared well as either
a descriptive or analytical tool. The political language of pluralism
emphasizes orthodox religious institutions and theologies and imagines
religious individuals relating to each other across distinct lines
of difference. As a consequence, models of interreligous engagement
that begin with pluralism obscure both the range of orthodoxies
and diversity within religious traditions, their sometimes fuzzy
and indistinct boundaries, and additionally the range of ways that
diverse religious actors respond to similar modern circumstances.
Building on these critiques, this conference poses the question
of what will come "after pluralism."
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Thursday, 11 October 2007
Public Panel
3.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Columbia University School of Law
W & J Warren Hall (corner of 115th and Amsterdam)
The Practices, Structures, and Futures of Religious Pluralism
Keynote Panelists:
James Tully, University of
Victoria
"The Practices of Pluralism"
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan,
SUNY-Buffalo School
"The Way We Live Now: Religion Unbound"
R. Kent Greenawalt, Columbia
University
"Equality and Perplexing Legal Questions About Religion"
Panel chair:
Courtney Bender, Columbia University
Public Reception
6.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
W & J Warren Hall (corner of 115th and Amsterdam)
Sponsors
- Columbia University Department of Religion
- Center for Democracy, Tolerance and Religion at the School for International and Public Affairs