ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes an alternative conception of multiple religious belonging called interreligious belonging. Instead of using the metaphor of monogamous marriage to understand dual belonging, the chapter advocates the metaphor of love for one's parents and one's children. If ideal belonging is akin to monogamous marriage, it follows that multiple religious belonging is somewhat similar to sleeping around with other partners, but that degrades one's spouse as well as the people used for frivolous extra-marital affairs. Some scholars object to the possibility of multiple religious belonging. For instance, according to Catherine Cornille, the expression multiple religious belonging is something of a misnomer because it suggests a measure of equal belonging to two or more religious traditions. However, the distinction between affiliative and incremental dimensions of religious belonging allows us to overcome Cornille's reservations about the possibility of multiple religious belonging. It is uncontroversial to assume that there are degrees of belonging.
