Multiple Faiths in Postcolonial Cities: Living Together after Empire

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This book addresses the challenges of living together after empire in many post-colonial cities. It is organized in two sections. The first section focuses on efforts by people of multiple faiths to live together within their contexts, including such efforts within a neighborhood in urban Manchester; the array of attempts at creating multi-faith spaces for worship across the globe; and initiatives to commemorate divisive conflict together in Northern Ireland. The second section utilizes particular postcolonial methods to illuminate pressing issues within specific contexts—including women’s leadership in an indigenous denomination in the variegated African landscape, and baptism and discipleship among Dalit communities in India. In the context of growing multiculturalism in the West, this volume offers a postcolonial theological resource, challenging the epistemologies in the Western academy. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Introduction (Jonathan Dunn, Heleen Joziasse, Raj Bharat Patta)....Pages 1-13 Collecting Stories of a Manchester Street, Living Together as People of Multi-Faiths (Helena Mary Kettleborough, Phil Barton, Elaine Bishop)....Pages 15-34 Multifaith Space: Religious Accommodation in Postcolonial Public Space? (Terry Biddington)....Pages 35-52 Remembering Together: Co-Memoration in Northern Ireland (Jonathan Dunn)....Pages 53-72 A Postcolonial Ethnographic Reading of Migrant/Refugee Faith Communities in Bengaluru (C. I. David Joy)....Pages 73-85 Worshipping God in a Mabati Church: Bishop Jane Akoth’s Leadership in the African Israel Nineveh Church (Heleen Joziasse, Esther Mombo)....Pages 87-108 Discipleship as Living Out Baptism: A Dalit Public Engagement with Theology of Bonhoeffer (Raj Bharat Patta)....Pages 109-129 Immanuel Kant Believed in Zombies: Multiculturalism and Spirituality in the Postcolonial City (Chris Shannahan)....Pages 131-151 Back Matter ....Pages 153-164