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St Francis Magazine Vol 8, No 2 | April 2012 Gospel from Western bondage and love for family notwithstanding, actually be a means of avoiding liminality? 7.4 A further step forward in avoiding liminality: Dual religious belonging and meta-religious identities A number of current studies have tied this theme of remaining into another sociological category called “dual religious belonging.” 135 Gideon Goosen who studied this phenomenon in Australia called it “having a foot in two camps.” He quotes a classic quote by Robert Corless: “I have come to the realization that I am equally convinced by the truth of the Christian worldview (and the necessity of the existence of God) and the Buddhist world-­‐view (and the necessity of the non-­‐existence of God).” 136 Peter Phan who is known to suggest that other religions are also “vehicles of salvation” describes this “hyphenated religious identity.” He suggests some who adhere to this belief call themselves Christians and that they believe it is “possible and even necessary not only to accept in theory this or that doctrine or practice of other religions and to incorporate them, perhaps in a modified form, into Christianity but also to adopt and live the beliefs, moral rules, rituals, and monastic practices of religious traditions other than those of Christianity, perhaps even in the midst of the community of the devotees of other 135 Kang-­‐San Tan “Dual belonging: a missiological critique and appreciation from an Asian evangelical perspective” Mission Studies, 27 no 1(2010), pp. 24-­‐38. ; Gideon Goosen, “An empirical study of dual religious belonging” Journal of Empirical Theology, 20:2 (2007), pp. 159-­‐178.; Jonas Adelin Jørgensen, “Jesus Imandars and Christ Bhaktas: report from two field studies of interreligious hermeneutics and identity in globalized Christianity” International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 33:4 (2009), pp. 171-­‐174, 176. 136 Goosen, p. 167 quoting Corless, 1989, p.3. 262