Multiple Faiths in Postcolonial Cities Living Together after Empire

This book addresses the challenges of living together after empire in many post-colonial cities. It is organized in two sections. The first section focuses on efforts by people of multiple faiths to live together within their contexts, including such efforts within a neighborhood in urban Manchester; the array of attempts at creating multi-faith spaces for worship across the globe; and initiatives to commemorate divisive conflict together in Northern Ireland. The second section utilizes particular postcolonial methods to illuminate pressing issues within specific contexts—including women’s leadership in an indigenous denomination in the variegated African landscape, and baptism and discipleship among Dalit communities in India. In the context of growing multiculturalism in the West, this volume offers a postcolonial theological resource, challenging the epistemologies in the Western academy.

Jonathan Dunn is Lecturer in Theological Ethics at the University of Chester.

Heleen Joziasse served as lecturer at St. Paul’s University, Limuru. She currently works for Mara Foundation in The Hague.

Raj Bharat Patta received his PhD from the University of Manchester. His research focuses on subaltern public theology.

Joseph F. Duggan is Founder and Chair Emeritus of Postcolonial Networks and Borderless Press.