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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. Religious pluralism is sometimes used as a synonym for Interfaith dialogue. 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. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religious_pluralism   (6391 words)

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. 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. 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. bahai-library.org /encyclopedia/pluralism.html   (1757 words)

Pasi Ihalainen: The Discourse on Political Pluralism in Early Eighteenth-century England - Introduction Pluralism in thought was connected with pluralism within the polity: the connected structural developments include the emergence of perpetual party divisions, a possibility for the political elite and even the public at large to choose between alternative political groupings, the extension of public political debate and the rise of parliamentary opposition. Political pluralism was connected with ecclesiastical pluralism, and the conceptual aspects of this linkage are of particular interest to this study. The growth of political pluralism was a development that could not escape the attention of the political elite even if many of its members wished to close their eyes to such an undesired transformation. www.lib.helsinki.fi /elektra/ihaintro.html   (1757 words)

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. Someone is a religious non-exclusivist with respect to a given issue when she denies that the religious perspective of any basic theistic system or variant thereof is superior to all other religious perspectives on this issue. But the fact that "we are at a loss to specify [common ground]” means, he argues, that with respect to those religious perspectives that are self-consistent, it is not "irrational for one to remain an exclusivist" — not irrational for the proponent of any religious perspective to continue to hold that her perspective is true. plato.stanford.edu /entries/religious-pluralism   (7077 words)

PLURALISM Pluralism is distinguished from both monism, the view that one kind of thing exists, and dualism, the view that two kinds of things exist. Religious pluralism is the view that all religions, certainly all major religions, offer equally valid paths to God, or to ultimate reality. Religious pluralism is the belief that every religion is true. churches.net /churches/utmiss/Religionsectlists/PLURALISM.htm   (13208 words)

galston.htm My argument is that the fit between value pluralism and political liberalism is tighter than Gray supposes but that nonetheless his objection has important implications for our understanding of the role of deep pluralism within liberal societies. It may be suggested that while autonomy poses clear challenges to faith, the moral philosophy of value pluralism is not straightforwardly hospitable to faith either. Pluralism is one premise in an argument for a protected zone of moral liberty. www.puaf.umd.edu /IPPP/galston.htm   (13208 words)

crowder But pluralism also implies that reasoned choices among conflicting plural and incommensurable values in particular cases require a particularist form of practical reasoning which is supported by certain pluralist ‘virtues.’ These, in turn, overlap or are reinforced by the civic virtues distinctive of liberal forms of politics. But pluralism also implies that reasoned choices among conflicting plural and incommensurable values in concrete cases require a particularist form of practical reasoning which is supported by certain pluralist ‘virtues.’ These, in turn, overlap or are reinforced by the civic virtues distinctive of liberal forms of politics. Value pluralism is an account of the objective nature of values and the relations among them: its central thesis is that some human values are plural and incommensurable independently of the contingent beliefs of particular individuals and groups. berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk /lists/onib/crowder.html   (8790 words)

isaiah berlin's key idea The usual technical name for this doctrine is ‘pluralism’, unfortunately rather a characterless word that tends to make what is in fact an exciting, liberating and radical view of human values sound like a sterile philosophical backwater. That is to say, there are many of them, all perfectly genuine, and their distinctness — their plurality — is irreducible: they cannot be redefined or translated in such a way that they all turn out to be different manifestations of one super-value such as happiness or utility or obedience to some alleged supernatural dispensation. Pluralism is by no means a panacea, but it is nevertheless an instrument of great transforming power. berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk /writings_on_ib/hhonib/isaiah_berlin's_key_idea.html   (8790 words)

Isaiah Berlin on Pluralism That is why pluralism is not relativism -- the multiple values are objective, part of the essence of humanity rather than arbitrary creations of men's subjective fancies. I think these values are objective -- that is to say, their nature, the pursuit of them, is part of what it is to be a human being, and this is an objective given. The enemy of pluralism is monism -- the ancient belief that there is a single harmony of truths into which everything, if it is genuine, in the end must fit. www.cs.utexas.edu /users/vl/notes/berlin.html   (8790 words)

galston.htm Value pluralism is not an argument for radical skepticism, or for relativism. My argument is that the fit between value pluralism and political liberalism is tighter than Gray supposes but that nonetheless his objection has important implications for our understanding of the role of deep pluralism within liberal societies. It may be suggested that while autonomy poses clear challenges to faith, the moral philosophy of value pluralism is not straightforwardly hospitable to faith either. www.puaf.umd.edu /IPPP/galston.htm   (8790 words)

Facing Pluralism Today - by Dr Jim Packer Pluralism knows that the global village which we call the world is full of metanarratives, that is, accounts of reality that claim to make sense of the human story and to declare the meaning of human life; every religion has one, and anti-religious viewpoints like Marxism and evolutionism have them too. Pluralism, as an ideology of the modern or, rather, postmodern world, grew out of the established plurality of Western society, where parallel positions compete for leadership in politics, in social attitudes, standards and norms, in morals and in religion, while practising tolerance of each other as a basic duty. Pluralism professes to tolerate and, other things being equal, to protect all these views, but it throws a dark canopy of uncommittedness over them, and thus reduces them to private interests that must not be allowed to rock, let alone steer, the community boat. www.reform.org.uk /bb/facingpluralismtoday.html   (8790 words)

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. 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. However, the internal weaknesses common to political liberalism and religious pluralism are most prominent when contrasted with Islamic thought, for the liberal separation of religion from social order is founded on the assumption that this separation is consistent with the tenets of all sects, while it is in direct conflict with the ideals of Islam. www.al-islam.org /al-tawhid/pluralism.htm   (15637 words)

RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS* It is a form of religious pluralism in that it is conceived from within the basic faith that religious experience is not in toto human imaginative projection but, whilst involving human conceptuality and imagination, is also a cognitive response to what [I] generally prefer to speak of as the Real. He accepts that a move to pluralism modifies more traditional understandings of religious knowledge and truth, and even suggests that its ability to constrain the view of religionists with respect to the problem of diversity should be seen as a virtue of this account. 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. www.scs.unr.edu /~axtell/discontents.htm   (5600 words)

A Hindu Call for Religious Pluralism Pluralism in any field does not mean that all alternatives are the same but that we do have different choices, which may not all be good or equal. 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. www.dharmacentral.com /articles/plural.htm   (2658 words)

PLURALISM AND SEGMENTATION IN POST-COMMUNIST ALBANIA Political pluralism tends to be articulated according to some universal schemes: left and right, democrats and liberals, progressists and conservatories, moderates and extremists. Their idea of pluralism is that of a form of homeostatic balance between opposite factions and interest sub-groups, i.e., not as a to-be-applied principle, but as an unwanted, but still unavoidable effect of a tendentially equal distribution of power. Political parties had to be different not only because they had different names, or because they were composed by people representing different groups and in disagreement with one another, but also because of their different objectives and goals. members.aol.com /Plaku/plu-segm.htm   (2658 words)

Political Pluralism in Modern Arab Islamic Thought In his opinion, political pluralism is a necessity because it is not possible for any political system to be set up in modern times while denying the people the right to differ, to disagree and to exercise their rights to free expression and assembly. Kings and ministers, he explained, are licensed in the realm of politics to pursue various routes that in the end serve one purpose: good administration and justice. The same, he believed, would apply to the freedom of political practice and opinion by leading administrators who endeavour to interpret and apply rules and provisions in accordance with the laws of their own countries. www.ii-pt.com /web/papers/pluralism.htm   (2658 words)

Evangelical Political Compromise -NRA The evangelical political compromise of democratic pluralism and natural law is a repudiation of the biblical doctrines of Christ's present reign over the nations and of the authority of the word of Christ; it is an offense to King Jesus. Politics, we are told by what is now the "conventional wisdom" of political science, is the art of compromise. The political compromises of evangelicals, therefore, do not deserve praise, but, rather, condemnation for their compromises have worked to undermine the kingdom of God and have contributed substantially to the ongoing advance of the kingdom of darkness in the politics of our nation. www.natreformassn.org /statesman/98/polcompr.html   (2658 words)

Isaiah Berlin This debate overlaps with that regarding pluralism's relationship to relativism, to the extent that liberalism is regarded as resting on a belief in certain universal values and fundamental human rights, a belief which relativism undermines. Gutmann, Amy, 1999, ‘Liberty and Pluralism in Pursuit of the Non-Ideal’, in Mack 1999. Nor does pluralism, with its emphasis on the place of tragic conflict and loss in human life, capture the affirmative zest for life and delighted enthusiasm for human beings that was central to Berlin's character as a man and thinker. plato.stanford.edu /entries/berlin   (2658 words)

Political Polytheism Political pluralism is not simply a political philosophy: it is a theology. Political Polytheism challenges the myth of neutrality, they myth of political pluralism, and the myth of the Constitutional Convention. In Political Polytheism Dr. Gary North sets forth a challenge to the reigning political philosophy of our day, a philosophy which says that God's people must remain politically silent, that neutrality is a valid religion, and that the King of history must confine Himself to the home, the church, and the funeral parlor. freebooks.entrewave.com /freebooks/docs/21f2_47e.htm   (2658 words)

Introduction to Multicultural Education Cultural pluralism speaks to the ways in which a society ought to be organized and the manner in which the young should be socialized. Cultural pluralism is therefore, a judgement about how to achieve the good society.& Cultural diversity is a necessary part of cultural ideology, however; alone, it is not sufficient. A microcultural group of collectivity that shares a common history and culture, common values, behaviors, and other characteristics that cause members of the group to have a shared identity. ss.uno.edu /ss/EDCI4620/LN/IntroMCE.html   (2658 words)

CULTURAL RELATIVISM, CONFLICT RESOLUTION, SOCIAL JUSTICE In all the debate over cultural relativism, the culture to which such things as values, morals, perception, standards, and so forth were said to be (or not to be) relative was left largely unexamined and undefined. Cultural relativism grew out of anthropology and given that field’s widely recognized failure to reach consensus on a precise definition of culture, arguably its master concept, this is understandable. And cultural analysis is predicated on methodological relativism: a lifting of the burdens (and the comforts) of moral judgments. www.gmu.edu /academic/pcs/BlackAvruch61PCS.html   (2658 words)

A Synthesis of Scholarship in Multicultural Education Pluralism is a vital functional force in society, even though it is not supported and embraced in institutional policies and practices (e.g., in housing authorities, school districts, and city government) and in the habits of communities. Promoting diversity means acknowledging diversity, incorporating diversity into all levels, and demonstrating pride in cultural pluralism along with a sincere belief that diversity is desirable. Culture and ethnicity have both intrinsic worth and instrumental value for creating an effective and representative system of education that mirrors social realities in the United States and the world. www.ncrel.org /sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/leadrshp/le0gay.htm   (2658 words)

Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity Freedom of expression, media pluralism, multilingualism, equal access to art and to scientific and technological knowledge, including in digital form, and the possibility for all cultures to have access to the means of expression and dissemination are the guarantees of cultural diversity. Indissociable from a democratic framework, cultural pluralism is conducive to cultural exchange and to the flourishing of creative capacities that sustain public life. Reaffirming that culture should be regarded as the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, and that it encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs, 2 www.ohchr.org /english/law/diversity.htm   (2658 words)

Deze webpagina is Lectures1 Value pluralism is a philosophical position that resembles postmodernism. Conflicts in values arise when the values at stake are incompatible, incapable of being combined in a specific situation, a personal life or in a society. In their view, the cause of value conflicts should not be sought in the structure of the moral universe, but in human beings themselves. home.planet.nl /~aarsberg/Cambridge.htm   (2658 words)

TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 23. Books in Review. Stephen Macedo. It is not justified by Berlin's value pluralism and, indeed, serves political values antithetical to modern democratic liberalism. As others have pointed out, value pluralism is a formal account of the nature of values, not a substantive argument about how particular values should be weighed. The plurality of values on both sides of many public-policy debates creates reasonable bases for many-sided disagreements and should lead all of us to wonder whether our own convictions represent the whole truth. www.prospect.org /print/V13/23/macedo-s.html   (2658 words)

Kenan Malik's essay on the incompatability of pluralism and equality A truly plural society would be one in which citizens have full freedom to pursue their different values or practices in private, while in the public sphere all citizens would be treated as political equals whatever their private beliefs. Pluralism, he argued, was the best defence against tyranny and against ideologies, such as racism, which treated some human beings as less equal than others. It is the mutual origins of racism and pluralism in Romanticism that underlies the ambiguities of the pluralist outlook. www.kenanmalik.com /essays/mindfields.html   (2658 words)

Isaiah Berlin Pluralism, on the other hand, sees conflicts of values as occurring both within, and across, cultures, and (at least in Lukes's formulation) maintains that custom or relatively valid belief-systems or ways of life cannot be appealed to as ways of overcoming value-conflict (Lukes 1989). This debate overlaps with that regarding pluralism's relationship to relativism, to the extent that liberalism is regarded as resting on a belief in certain universal values and fundamental human rights, a belief which relativism undermines. Gutmann, Amy, 1999, ‘Liberty and Pluralism in Pursuit of the Non-Ideal’, in Mack 1999. plato.stanford.edu /entries/berlin   (2658 words)

ARPA: Civilising Political Theory Their focus on pluralism is a belated response to the troubling philosophical challenge posed in the 1960s by Isaiah Berlin’s views on ‘value pluralism’ eventually published in his Four Essays on Liberty (1969). pluralism … allows a universal case for liberalism, indeed that such a case can be grounded in the idea of value pluralism itself…. Galston sees plural values and diverse ways of life placed at risk by the tendency of a liberal democratic state to interfere and seek to impose ‘rational’ and majoritarian norms upon cultural minorities. www.econ.usyd.edu.au /drawingboard/digest/0303/corcoran.html   (2658 words)

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