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| | Religious pluralism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Many religious believers believe that religious pluralism should entail not competition but cooperation, and argue that societal and theological change is necessary to overcome religious differences between different religions, and denominational conflicts within the same religion. | | | As a synonym for religious tolerance, which is a condition of harmonious co-existence between adherents of different religions or religious denominations. | | | As a synonym for religious relativism; that one's religion is not the sole and exclusive source of truth, and that some level of truth and value exists in at least some other religions. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_pluralism
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| | Encyclopedia Article: Religious Pluralism |
| | Philosophically, religious pluralism is the theory that the great world religions constitute varying conceptions of, and responses to, the one ultimate, mysterious divine reality. | | | Inclusivist theologies and religious philosophies state that one particular tradition presents the final truth while other traditions, instead of being regarded as wrong, are seen to reflect aspects of, or to constitute approaches to, that final truth. | | | Explicit pluralism accepts the more radical position implied by inclusivism: the view that the great world faiths embody different perceptions and conceptions of, and correspondingly different responses to, the Real of the Ultimate, and that within each salvation is occuring. |
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http://bahai-library.org/encyclopedia/pluralism.html
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| | A Hindu Call for Religious Pluralism |
| | Pluralism in religions does not mean that we have to believe in or accept all religions as true, regardless of what they teach. | | | Pluralism in religions does not require that we reduce all religions to a common mold in which their distinctions disappear into an amorphous unity. | | | What Hinduism really teaches is religious pluralism, not the need to make all religions the same, which is intolerant of religious differences that are often not at all minor or inconsequential. |
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http://www.dharmacentral.com/articles/plural.htm
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| | PLURALISM |
| | Religious pluralism is the belief that every religion is true. | | | Religious pluralism is the view that all religions, certainly all major religions, offer equally valid paths to God, or to ultimate reality. | | | Religious plurality is no longer a theory or a distant phenomenon; in fact, it is virtually impossible to live in a major Western city without coming into contact withsome aspect of a non-Western religion. |
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http://churches.net/churches/utmiss/Religionsectlists/PLURALISM.htm
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| | Al-Tawhid |
| | Religious pluralism is the outcome of an attempt to provide a basis in Christian theology for tolerance of non-Christian religions; as such, it is an element in a kind of religious modernism or liberalism. | | | Hick's religious pluralism and his reformulation of Christian theology is influenced by his social activism, on the one hand, but also by his reflections on the rationality of religious belief. | | | Recall that pluralism is supposed to function in the reconciliation of differences in beliefs prompted by religious experiences in such a way that the entitlement to believe on the basis of the experience is preserved by analogy to the manner in which sense experience warrants perceptual belief. |
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http://www.al-islam.org/al-tawhid/pluralism.htm
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| | Religious Diversity (Pluralism) |
| | And someone is a religious pluralist with respect to a given issue when she claims not only (as a non-exclusivist) that no specific religious perspective is superior but also makes the positive claim that the religious perspectives of more than one basic theistic system or variant thereof are equally close to the truth. | | | Gellman, J., (1993), "Religious Diversity and the Epistemic Justification of Religious Belief," Faith and Philosophy, 10: 345-64. | | | One obvious response to religious diversity is to maintain that since there exists no divine reality — since the referent in all religious truth claims related to the divine is nonexistent — all such claims are false. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religious-pluralism
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| | RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS* |
| | For Hick, pluralism contrasts, on the one hand, with religious dogmatism, and in particular with the “exclusivist” view that only the religious teaching of one’s own tradition is veridical, and/or only the religious faith or experience of one’s own tradition is salvific. | | | The religious pluralism in question is an hypothesis about the relationship between the world’s religions. | | | And in collaboration with the religious aspect of human nature it has produced both the personal and non-personal foci of religious worship and meditation—the gods and absolutes—which exist at the interface between the Real and the human mind. |
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http://www.scs.unr.edu/~axtell/discontents.htm
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| | Reacting towards religious diversity: religious pluralism, exclusivism & inclusivism |
| | Exclusivism and religious pluralism are two opposing ways of looking at world religions in relation to one's own faith. | | | It is sometimes used as a synonym for "religious diversity" to refer to the fact that many countries have a followers of many religions within their borders. | | | Religious conservatives frequently embrace exclusivism, largely because it appears in their holy texts -- the Torah, Christian Scriptures (New Testament), Qur'an, etc. In fact, many Christian and Jewish conservatives do not recognize the liberal wings of their own religion as legitimate. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/rel_plur.htm
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| | Religious Pluralism and Israeli Society |
| | The idea of combining religious Zionism, which joins spiritual rootedness with worldly progress, with the positive elements in the Zionism of Sephardic Jews, can be the human and ideological compound to fertilize the soil of our pluralistic mosaic. | | | “A religious Jewry that is attentive to developments in the modern world, is integrated into it and does not flee from it, and a secular Jewry that is aware of and respects its past and its sources. | | | Jewish identity, and identification with the Jewish people, still constitute the spiritual underpinning of the Jewish whole, while the religious establishment, which could have been the most faithful representative of that identity, repels Jews from their Jewishness. |
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http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=1613
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| | Religious Pluralism Project |
| | She is studying the response of public education to religious pluralism in southern California, looking particularly at how the public education system has handled the challenges of religious diversity and inculcated certain values about religious 'tolerance'. | | | Rahuldeep Singh Gill (B.A., 2002, University of Rochester) is an M.A./Ph.D. student in Religious Studies, specializing in the religions of Punjab. | | | Jonathan H.X. Lee (M.A., 2002, Graduate Theological Union) is a Ph.D. student in Religious Studies, specializing in East Asian Religions and the Asian religious diaspora in America. |
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http://www.religion.ucsb.edu/projects/newpluralism/team.htm
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| | Religious Pluralism |
| | The focus of this article is not on the pluralism among the world's major religions and philosophies. | | | There are approximately 2 billion people that call themselves Christians, more than 1 billion people that call themselves Muslims, more than 850 million people that call themselves Hindus, more than 600 million people that call themselves Buddhists, approximately 150 million people that label themselves Atheists, and approximately 14 million people born as Jews. | | | Many people claim to be Christians because they profess belief in Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.allaboutreligion.org/religious-pluralism.htm
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| | The Middle Colonies as the Birthplace of American Religious Pluralism - The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - ... |
| | The most influential religious bodies beside the Quakers were the large congregations of German Reformed, Lutherans, Anglicans, and Presbyterians. | | | Kammen charted church squabbles and ceasefires while noting the growth of all denominations; the end result of religious competition, in his view, was secularization and broad toleration. | | | Another way to think about the rise of religious toleration (which is not the same thing as religious liberty on principle) is to see it as a kind of trade-off. |
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http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/midcol.htm
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| | Utah Pluralism Project |
| | This scene reflects the religious diversity of Utah at the dawn of the 21st century. | | | This project focuses on the development of Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, and Sikh religious congregations in Utah, particularly in Utah's immigrant communities. | | | Hindu priest Venkata Sastry performed the Vaasthu Homa ceremony on October 27, 2001 as construction of the Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple began in Salt Lake County. |
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http://faculty.weber.edu/bdavis/pluralism
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| | Pluralism - religious cults, sects and movements |
| | Truth in Religion: The Plurality of Religions and the Unity of Truth, an Essay in the Philosophy of Religion | | | The Pluralism Project was developed by Diana L. Eck at Harvard University to study and document the growing religious diversity of the United States, with a special view to its new immigrant religious communities. | | | Those who promote pluralism in the second sense often claim that a) criticizing a religion, and/or b) insisting that one's own religion is exclusivistic (e.g Christianity's claim that salvation can be obtained only by accepting Jesus Christ) is intolerant or even hateful. |
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http://www.apologeticsindex.org/p14.html
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| | Religious Pluralism |
| | RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND JEWISH UNITY Reaffirms long-standing commitment to the principle of religious pluralism and the preservation of Jewish unity. | | | Commends efforts of those in Israel and the Diaspora who are working to foster greater respect and dialogue between religious and secular communities. | | | Strongly objects to Israel's religious hierarchy ruling on the legitimacy of conversions performed outside Israel, thereby altering the Law of Return. |
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http://www.hadassah.org/education/content/IzaiaPolicy/RP.html
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| | To suggest that a religious belief is false or inadequate is offensive, and thus intolerant. | | | This comes from the recognition of undeniable truth and beauty in other faiths, believing these to be incomplete anticipations of what had been definitively revealed in Christ. | | | The emerging belief that the real enemy of Christianity is atheism and secularism, not other religious movements. |
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http://www.enjoyinggodministries.com/article.asp?id=356
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| | MMR #30 Encountering Religious Pluralism |
| | Except for the religious leaders who sought to turn people away from him, Jesus always accepted people where they were and pointed them toward the kingdom of God. | | | After affirming my empathy with people of all backgrounds, I suggested that we must also compare and contrast belief systems of world religions since these form the essence of identity. | | | I have come to believe that the distinctive way of God in Christ is likely the most significant theological issue of our time. |
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http://www.missiology.org/mmr/mmr30.htm
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| | Islam and Religious Pluralism |
| | The phenomenon of religious diversity is one of the questions with which today's religious thought is faced. | | | The present study is the effort of one Muslim thinker, in which he tries to analyse and criticize some of the answers to the question of religious diversity. | | | Then he goes on to propose an Islamic answer on the basis of Islamic sources. |
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http://www.fadakbooks.com/isandrelplur.html
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| | The War on Religious Pluralism TPMCafe |
| | Behind the rhetoric about religious freedom, the demand of the War on Christmas crusaders, as articulated by their most earnest advocates, is that both public and private employees greet people of all religions as if they were Christians. | | | The hypocricy of the "Religious Wrong" is they have subverted the message of love and tolerence taught by Jesus into one of hate and intolerence. | | | Having them say the "Happy Holidays" instead, which merely acknowledges the possibility of a multiplicity of religious observances, is to be seen as religious persecution of Christians. |
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http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/12/24/17330/190
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| | Universist Foundation Universism The Value of Diversity Belief is an Evolution |
| | Universists share the same questions that spawned the world's religious traditions, but we believe that uniting around answers to those questions is dangerous. | | | Many critics of faith consider themselves tolerant because they would allow religious belief to be legal. | | | We are tolerant however in that we respect and appreciate the entire diversity of human religious expression, which are all manifestations of humanity's noble desires to be more, know more, and feel more in this universe. |
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http://universist.org
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| | Religious pluralism |
| | Beyond startling facts like these, the book offers chapters on American Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists, in which Eck both surveys the growing awareness of these traditions among the American public over the past two hundred years and notes the presence of their adherents in surprising places all across the country. | | | The separation of church and state takes on new dimensions - and new importance - as our society becomes more pluralistic religiously, and as fundamentalisms gain strength in many faith communities. | | | The current situation, Eck says, is one that will require "moving beyond laissez-faire inattention to religion to a vigorous attempt to understand the religions of our neighbors" -- and one that will also require "the engagement of our religious traditions in the common tasks of our civil society." |
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http://www.witherspoonsociety.org/religious_pluralism1.htm
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| | Pluralism Project - Selected Links |
| | The Religious Movements Homepage at the University of Virginia | | | Guidelines on Religious Exercise and Religious Expression in the Federal Workplace | | | Religious Freedom Organization, Church of Christ Scientist, Boston |
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http://www.pluralism.org/resources/links/index.php
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| | Religious Pluralism |
| | In both cases, we will draw the implicit attitude toward religious pluralism out of the books (for neither explicitly discusses religious pluralism). | | | These approaches and attitudes will then be applied to concrete presentations of religions in area museums, depending on the student's religion of interest or expertise. | | | The course, then, will blend highly abstract theories of religious pluralism with field trips to concrete displays of religions. |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/rufb/pluralism.htm
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| | Ariga: Religious Pluralism |
| | The appropriate way to mark this was to light lamps: as a memorial tribute to the sacrifice of men, women and children and as a symbol of the spiritual, which makes life worth living. | | | In some ways this might have been a popular emotional and spiritual counter-response to the militaristic heroism of Maccabees 1 and the religious triumphalism of Maccabees 2. | | | The Hanukkah lights which we light should help us see that. |
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http://www.ariga.com/pluralism/hannukah.htm
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| | Ariga: Religious Pluralism |
| | This week's parasha contains one of the Torah's great mythic moments -- the crossing of the Reed Sea (sorry, it's not Red), and the great Song of the Sea, the cathartic moment when the people of Israel broke out in song in thanks to God for saving them from the pursuing Egyptians. | | | Permission is granted to link to this page. | | | Religious Pluralism \ Parashat Hashavua-- The Weekly Torah Portion |
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http://www.ariga.com/pluralism/bshlah98.htm
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