One Nation, Many Faiths
Civic-Cultural Nationalism and Religious Pluralism in the Scottish Interfaith Literature
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.34121Keywords:
interfaith, religious pluralism, banal nationalism, civic-cultural nationalism, world religions paradigm, ScotlandAbstract
This article examines the representation of Scottish national identity and religious pluralism within the literature of Interfaith Scotland: a nationwide interfaith body formed after the establishment of the devolved Scottish Parliament in 1999. I will show that a form of civic and cultural nationalism is evident within that literature. I will also demonstrate that its representations of religious pluralism are structured by the world religions paradigm. It is argued that these different categories are represented as complementary and non-competitive. That representations of religions as universalistic, global and transcendent entail that they do not compete with the limited, bounded and ultimately sovereign national identity of Scotland.References
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