Sufism, Pluralism and Democracy: Contexts, Comparisons and Critiques
Sufism, Pluralism and Democracy - Clinton Bennett
Clinton Bennett [+ ]
State University of New York, New Palz
Clinton Bennett divides his teaching between SUNY New Paltz, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY and Cambridge, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute. A Baptist missionary in Bangladesh 1979-1982, he maintains close personal and professional ties with South Asia. Director of interfaith relations for the British Council of Churches 1986-1992, he has served on not-for-profit management committees, local, national and international ecumenical agencies, chaired a school governing body and represented an NGO at the UN. He has written ten books, numerous articles, reviews, chapters, editorials, and encyclopedia and dictionary entries. He is editor of the Continuum Studying World Religions series.
Description
This chapter defines the research, introduces Sufism, makes a note on methodology, and summarizes the salient findings from the chapters.