The Relevance of Interreligious Dialogue in the Public Sphere. Some Misgivings

Multiple Religious Belonging and Religious Communities

“…Such a normative judgement, however, threatens to obscure the complexity that is consistently apparent. Jonatan Hendriks and André van der Braak This complexity can be elucidated through the paradigm of multiple religious belonging (MRB), which has gained popularity in theology and religious studies during the last two decades (e.g., Berghuijs 2017;Bidwell 2018;Cornille 2002;D'Costa and Thompson 2016;Liefbroer, Van der Braak and Kalsky 2018;Oostveen 2019Oostveen , 2020Rajkumar and Dayam 2016;Schmidt-Leukel 2020;Van der Braak and Kalsky 2017). Within this paradigm, some approaches emphasize that belonging is a more accurate denotation of multireligiosity than identity, participation, or affinity.…”

Editorial: Ethical and Epistemological Aspects of ‘Dialogue’: Exploring the Potential of the Second-Person Perspective §

“…That is why the potential of the second-person perspective is worth being explored further in regard to methodological innovation (cf. Tracy 1990;Darwall 2006;Schmidt-Leukel 2020). Investigating not only the ethical but also the neglected epistemological aspects of dialogue by concentrating on that through (dia) which it takes place-the event of an interrelation and intersection of different perspectives in an encounter that combines subjectivity and objectivity in a special way-promises that we reach a better understanding of the quality and status that can be attributed to the 'in-between' (Welz 2015), which mediates the dialogical relation between the self and the other.…”