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This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement ininstitutionalizing religious pluralism in the public life of contemporary societiesthrough the case study of Interfaith Scotland. It analyzes the organization and theirliterature, demonstrating the ways in which they have cultivated a particular model ofreligious pluralism compatible with a secular civic-cultural nationalism. It places thiscase into a comparative discussion of the interfaith movement as an emerging globalphenomenon.Liam T. Sutherland considers how Interfaith Scotland presents ’religions’ asequivalent, compatible bodies of ethical teachings through selective appeals totextual traditions and their construction. It has also depended on conforming to the’world religions paradigm’, where it is only religions with global reach and cohesivecharacteristics which require representation.This volume sheds light on the wider relationship between the global interfaithmovement and nationalism; Sutherland explores how Interfaith Scotland encourageda common, seemingly ’apolitical’ attachment to Scotland’s democratic institutionsand cultural heritage, and especially the question of independence.
