Comparative study of religion and faith speaking to faith : a “Nestorian narrative” in plural Christianities

Abstract

The history of Christianity is on a global horizon, entailing a polycentric character and multifaceted reality. It tells a story of human life embedded with the creativity of the religious career, social institutions, and power relations, calling for dialogue with its place, effect, and problem. This paper deals with a story of the Church of the East in exploring its distinctive place, contribution, and interfaith engagement in China and with Islam. Comparative historical inquiry of religious diversity and social institutions in the history of religion worldwide facilitates a sociological study of multiple modernities in distinction from the Eurocentric model of modernity.