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Abstract

This book is an examination of the philosophical merits of religious pluralism. Pluralism is one intellectual response to that fact of religious diversity. The starting point in discussion of pluralism is then the fact that there are many religious traditions in human history and they exhibit diversity. Many facets of this diversity are not of primary interest to pluralism. As a thesis in the philosophy of religion, pluralism’s first focus is on the fact that religions implicitly or explicitly claim cognitive successes and achievements of various kinds. Thus they claim to have a true account of the nature of transcendent, sacred reality, or of the way human beings must act toward that reality, or of human nature, or of how human salvation or liberation from evil is to be achieved. They hold that their spiritualities capture genuine encounters with and experience of the transcendent and/or that they have genuine revelation.KeywordsReligious TraditionReligious DiversityCultural BasisCognitive AchievementReligious PluralismThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.