Religious Pluralism in the Chinese Diaspora of Southeast Asia
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2024) | Viewed by 1525
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Buddhism; Taoism and Chinese popular religion in Singapore and Malaysia; Chinese education; history of Chinese in southeast Asia
Interests: Chinese religion; Chinese temples and networks in southeast Asia; Daoist studies; local communal religion; spirit possession; religion and ecology; material culture; ritual theory
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Dear colleagues,
Since the 19th century, the China migration waves have brought Chinese migrants to different parts of the world, especially to the Southeast Asia regions. With the existing religions in Southeast Asia, for example, Islam and Hinduism, the Chinese diaspora further enriched the plurality of the society by importing Chinese culture and beliefs. Meanwhile, the Chinese diaspora and its religions have also been exposed in a plurality society, forming the scenery of religious pluralism. According to Ian Hamnett (1990), referring to “religious pluralism”, it could be a state of affairs that denotes the coexistence of multiple religious traditions within the same society; or as an ideology that supports religious diversity and rejects exclusivism. This phenomenon could be traced easily in the diasporic Chinese community.
This special issue includes papers focusing on different topics about religious pluralism among the Chinese diaspora of Southeast Asia. We focus on the plurality of overseas Chinese belief systems, including the Chinese Muslims and Chinese Christians community; the cross-community integration of the traditional Chinese religions and local indigenous cultures, such as the Na Tuk Gong beliefs in the Malaysian Chinese community; the interaction between the traditional Chinese religions as a minority religion and the majority religions community, for instance, the Muslims community in Indonesia and Malaysia; the surviving and developing strategies of the Chinese religions in the pluralistic societies. Taken together, this collection of papers will serve as a significant basis to understand the historical development and current status of the diasporic Chinese religions in the pluralistic context of Southeast Asia.
Dr. Guan Thye Hue
Prof. Dr. Kenneth Dean
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- religious pluralism
- Chinese diaspora
- diasporic Chinese belief system
- southeast Asia
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