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A sociological and theological study of the unique challenges posed to religion by today's pluralistic society.
The influence of religion on culture is as strong as ever, but the shape of that influence is unique in today's pluralistic society. In Christianity in the Modern World, Ambrose Mong examines critically themes of religious commitment and tolerance, attitudes towards other religions, and the sociological aspects of religion and inter-religious dialogue. He provides an overview of factors that challenge traditional religion, from the relationship between monotheistic and polytheistic beliefs to the history of tolerance and intolerance in the church and the future of secularism.
Following the global ethics formulated by the late Hans Küng, Mong also engages with the dialogue between Jürgen Habermas and Joseph Ratzinger to provide an extensive defence of the importance of inter-religious dialogue, with particular relevance to multiple religious belonging in the Asian context. Scholars of world religions will find Mong's analysis compelling, while students will find his introduction to the historical dialectics underlying many of today's tensions illuminating.
The influence of religion on culture is as strong as ever, but the shape of that influence is unique in today's pluralistic society. In Christianity in the Modern World, Ambrose Mong examines critically themes of religious commitment and tolerance, attitudes towards other religions, and the sociological aspects of religion and inter-religious dialogue. He provides an overview of factors that challenge traditional religion, from the relationship between monotheistic and polytheistic beliefs to the history of tolerance and intolerance in the church and the future of secularism.
Following the global ethics formulated by the late Hans Küng, Mong also engages with the dialogue between Jürgen Habermas and Joseph Ratzinger to provide an extensive defence of the importance of inter-religious dialogue, with particular relevance to multiple religious belonging in the Asian context. Scholars of world religions will find Mong's analysis compelling, while students will find his introduction to the historical dialectics underlying many of today's tensions illuminating.
Price: $40.95
Pages: 215
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Clarke
Publication Date:
27 January 2022
Trim Size: 5.98 X 8.98 in
ISBN: 9780227177624
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations, RELIGION / Ecumenism & Interfaith, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Religious institutions and organizations
With his trademark clarity and incisiveness, Ambrose Mong introduces us to the problems facing Christianity in modernity, such as polytheism, intolerance, syncretism, secularism, and religious pluralism. I strongly recommend Mong's latest work as a perfect textbook for a course on contemporary Christianity.
— Dr. Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University
This is a fine book, which gives an excellent overview about main religious, sociological and theological issues and controversies in the pluralistic societies we are living in. Ambrose Mong has sensitively explored the elementary themes of the current religious debates. . . this textbook is of great interest for the ecumenically minded reader.
— Benjamin Simon, Ecumenical Institute Bossey, World Council of Churches
Fr Ambrose has written a book for our times. In a pluralistic world where human beings of different beliefs often live and work alongside one another, friction and conflict are common occurrences. How do we reconcile our differences? Fr Ambrose suggests an approach to our enquiry which is to begin and end with Christ's teaching to love thy neighbour as thyself.
— George Yeo, Singapore Foreign Minister (2004-11)
Christianity in the Modern World alerts us to the reality that all religions, Christianity included, are undergoing enormous shifts in self-understanding. Ambrose Mong's historical and scholarly eye makes us realise it has ever been thus: religions, like cultures, are subject to continuous change. Contemporary challenges - secularism, tolerance, ecology, interfaith dialogue, syncretism, dual religious belonging, post-religious and fundamentalist ideologies - are all examined in light of today's call for a Global Ethic across all religions and cultures.
— Gerard Hall SM, Australian Catholic University
— Dr. Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University
This is a fine book, which gives an excellent overview about main religious, sociological and theological issues and controversies in the pluralistic societies we are living in. Ambrose Mong has sensitively explored the elementary themes of the current religious debates. . . this textbook is of great interest for the ecumenically minded reader.
— Benjamin Simon, Ecumenical Institute Bossey, World Council of Churches
Fr Ambrose has written a book for our times. In a pluralistic world where human beings of different beliefs often live and work alongside one another, friction and conflict are common occurrences. How do we reconcile our differences? Fr Ambrose suggests an approach to our enquiry which is to begin and end with Christ's teaching to love thy neighbour as thyself.
— George Yeo, Singapore Foreign Minister (2004-11)
Christianity in the Modern World alerts us to the reality that all religions, Christianity included, are undergoing enormous shifts in self-understanding. Ambrose Mong's historical and scholarly eye makes us realise it has ever been thus: religions, like cultures, are subject to continuous change. Contemporary challenges - secularism, tolerance, ecology, interfaith dialogue, syncretism, dual religious belonging, post-religious and fundamentalist ideologies - are all examined in light of today's call for a Global Ethic across all religions and cultures.
— Gerard Hall SM, Australian Catholic University
Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Monotheism and Polytheism
2. Dialectic of Tolerance
3. Idiosyncrasies of Syncretism
4. Sociological Perspective
5. Challenge of Secularism
6. Challenge of Religious Pluralism
7. Global Ethic
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Monotheism and Polytheism
2. Dialectic of Tolerance
3. Idiosyncrasies of Syncretism
4. Sociological Perspective
5. Challenge of Secularism
6. Challenge of Religious Pluralism
7. Global Ethic
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index