Comparing the Chinese and Indian Worlds

10.06.2016 09:30 – 11.06.2016 17:30

Both the Chinese and the Indian worlds have known religious plurality for a much longer time than Europe. Thus, rather than comparing either of these with Europe, as is often done, we stand to learn much by comparing them directly, which is much less frequently undertaken. Yet, any preliminary attempt at comparison will show that these two cultural worlds have developed vastly different ideas and practices of religious plurality. What these Indian and Chinese ideas have in common is that they not pluralism (a modern concept predicated on tolerance and a notion of equality between faiths) : in both India and China, religious plurality is hierarchical, regulated, and based on assigned identities. Most of the rest differ, because of hugely different historical developments, including a role for a central state, which looms much larger in the Chinese case. While one may consider that there exist in both cases an encompassing framework for integrating plurality (Chinesess; Hinduness), they obviously differ in major ways. We consider that it is because of such differences that the comparison is interesting.

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