East African Religious Pluralism
An Urban Coastal Case Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4863348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Blair Alan Gadsby (0000-0003-4142-358X, Adjunct Faculty Religious Studies Modern Languages and Humanities Division, Chandler-Gilbert Community College Chandler, AZ USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 397-425 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700666-12340214 |
| OpenAlex | W4224212498 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
For many recent generations the city of Mombasa, Kenya, on the east African coast (pop. 1.2 million) has been a cosmopolitan racial-cultural-religious milieu of the African, Arab, Indian-Asian, and European. The purpose of this paper is to clarify religious pluralism (r/p) in this urban context to see if there are any instructions to be drawn for the academic understanding of religion in keeping with the methodologies of Religious Studies (RS). Especially of interest here is the effectiveness of the sociological theory of religion developed in the 1987 book A Theory of Religion (ATOR) by Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge to (de)problematize religious behaviour as distinct from political behaviour, which too often become confused and misappropriated as causes. In addition, ATOR provides the terminology for a more critical theory of religion whereby the state's involvement can be accounted for by examining its use of the cultural means of coercion, thereby clearing the way for a typology of east African r/p to emerge
Anthropology of religion · Epistemology · History of religions · Pluralism (philosophy) · Political science · Politics · Religious pluralism · Sociology · Sociology of religion · Typology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious studies
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |