Aarhus Conference Papers

Religious Pluralism in Iran’s Islamic Tradition

Abbas Yazdani

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it critiques the exclusivist reaction to the encounter of religious diversity, that is, the claim that only one religion can be right and all others must be wrong. I promote religious pluralism as the epistemologically and morally superior strategy of reaction. Second, I will show that commitments to religious pluralism can be found in Islamic teachings, demonstrating the consistency between religious pluralism and Islamic teachings,especially with reference to Rumi’s works (Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, 1207-1273) and the Qur’an itself.

Religious Diversity as Peacebuilding

The Space for Peace

Peter Berliner,

Ernesto Anasarias, and

Elena de Casas Soberón

At daybreak the aircraft lands heavily at Mindanao’s Davao Airport. Mindanao is the most southern of the major islands of the Philippines.

Conflict in the Peaceable Kingdom

Quaker Identity, Silence and Virtue Ethics

Susan Robson

Using British Quakers as an illustrative case study, this paper will examine core questions, such as, How are conflicts perceived, generated, and enacted in this organization? What are the characteristic marks of Quaker conflict? and What are the socially accepted ways to respond to conflict among Quakers? The answers suggest that individuals in conflict are positioned by varying discourses and examine the consequence of this. As an insider researcher I am also positioned by different discourses, and the tension between these is an important source of data alongside more traditional qualitative methods.

Certainty and Diversity

A Systematic Approach to Interreligious Learning

Dorothee Schlenke

Religion and Peaceful Conflict

Jesper Garsdal

The discussion about the role of religion in the surge of cultural conflicts during the last two decades has become quite ramified, but the main controversy centers on the alternat