Social Cohesion, Peacebuilding, Human Rights, and Dialogue: Global Interreligious Perspectives - Paperback

by Paul Hedges (Volume Editor), Abdullah Saeed (Volume Editor), Nursheila Muez (Volume Editor)

This volume explores, through global cases and discussions, questions around social cohesion, peacebuilding, human rights, and dialogue across a range of religious traditions and locations to form a global dialogue about how religious diversity is conceptualised and enacted.

Author Biography

Paul Hedges is Professor of Interreligious Studies at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Life Member at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He has previously published 15 books and over 90 scholarly papers, including Christian Polytheism? Polydox Theologies of Multi-devotional and Decolonial Praxis (Routledge, 2024).

Abdullah Saeed is Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on the negotiation of text and context, ijtihad and interpretation.

Nursheila Muez was a Senior Analyst at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University. She is the co-author of Secularism in Singapore: Asatizah's Perspectives on its Reconcilability with Islam (2020).

Luca Farrow is an Associate Research Fellow at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He researches religion, law, and extremisms and is co-author of "Protection against Religious Hatred" in Freedom of Religion and Religious Pluralism (Bhuiyan and Zoethout eds.; Brill, 2023).