International Journal of Interreligious and Intercultural Studies
Vol 2 No 1 (2019): Interreligious and Intercultural Studies

Asian Religions as Resources for Changing Mindsets

Goh Beng Lan (Department of Area Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
04 May 2019

Abstract

This paper argues that Asian religious traditions provide us with resources for alternative ethics and methodologies of resisting capitalist excesses and social-cultural intolerances towards more convivial and viable human futures. It draws inspiration from two major developments. First, the works of Prasenjit Duara (2015) and Joel S. Kahn (2015) that posit Asian religious traditions as resources for generating alternative ethics as well as contemplative and embodied ways of knowing that direct self and collective capacities to overcome environmental sustainability and social-cultural incompatibilities. Second, everyday politics of resisting religious bigotries in contemporary Malaysia that turn to spiritual traditions for mindful ways of minimizing, bridging or transcending irreducible ethno-religious differences.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijiis

Publisher

Subject

Religion Arts Humanities

Description

IJIIS expects to publish articles that investigate, critically assess and foster intellectual exchanges at the theoretical, philosophical as well as applied levels of knowledge on interreligious and intercultural matters. Its main purpose is to generate scholarly exchanges of ideas, criticisms, and ...