Vice Presidential Address: Speaking to Religious Hybridity
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https://doi.org/10.70927/vkzegs41Keywords:
interreligious engagement; religious plurality; hybridity; multiple religious practiceAbstract
This address considers the ways in which members of the academy might respond to the rise of religious hybridity among our member traditions, both contributing our expertise to the analysis of the phenomenon and taking account of this hybridity in our practices.
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