Religious Diversity, Social Cohesion, and the Role of Interfaith Cooperation in Resilient Global Cities
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Tony Banout
Abstract
The city of the future will have to come to terms with astronomical population growth comprised of individuals and communities that differ on matters of fundamental beliefs living in increasingly close proximity. The test will be whether religious diversity increasingly leads to clashing parochialisms or unlocks possibilities for human flourishing. With 7.5 billion people urbanized by 2050, cities simply must include attention to religious diversity, and the science of social capital and interfaith cooperation can inform the discourse of resiliency as humanity prepares. Ample sociological research supports the conclusion that societies thrive where and when they are able to build trusting relationships across lines of deep difference. The inverse failure to do so is a direct danger to civil peace. This article charts a path forward to building and sustaining those relationships in an urban setting.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Introduction
- Anti-gentrification Campaigns and the Fight for Local Control in California Cities
- Small and Smart: Why and How Smart City Solutions Can and Should be Adapted to the Unique Needs of Smaller Cities
- Global Questions About Rent and the Longue Durée of Urban Power, 1848 to the Present
- The De-globalized City
- Global Cities and the Ends of Globalism
- Religious Diversity, Social Cohesion, and the Role of Interfaith Cooperation in Resilient Global Cities
- Review Essays
- New York at its Core: A Review of an Exhibition at the City Museum of New York
- Owen Hatherley: Landscapes of Communism, Yuri Slezkine: The House of Government and John Davies, Alexander J. Kent: The Red Atlas
- Book Reviews
- Andrew Brooks: The End of Development. A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity
- Tim Dunne and Christian Reus-Smit: The Globalization of International Society
