Religious pluralism and the modern world: an ongoing engagement with John Hick

A fascinating collection of essays by leading scholars in the field engage with the idea of religious pluralism mooted by John Hick to offer incisive insights on religious pluralism and related themes and to address practical aspectssuch as interreligious spirituality and worship in a multi-faith context. SHARADA SUGIRTHARAJAHSenior Lecturer in Hindu Studies in the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, UK.Focusing particularly on the issue of representation of Hinduism in colonial and postcolonial discourses, her research interests also include religious pluralism and interreligious relations, women issues, modern Hindu thinkers, and diasporic Hinduism. Her publications include book chapters, edited volumes, journal articles, and entries in reference works. She is the author of 'Imagining Hinduism' (2003)and ison the International Editorial Board of the 'Journal of Feminist Studiesin Religion.' INDICE: Acknowledgments - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: Religious Pluralism: Some Issues; 'S.Sugirtharajah - 'PART I: RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES - Religious Pluralism and the Need for an Interreligious Theology; 'P.Schmidt-Leukel - 'Which is it? Religious Pluralism or Global Theology?; 'M.McCord Adams - 'Virtuous Comparativists are Practicing Pluralists; 'P.Knitter - 'Pluralism Revisited; 'K.Ward - 'Faith Triumphant? The Problem of a Theology of Supersession; 'J.Lipner - 'PART II: RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND PRACTICAL CONCERNS - The Value of the Symbolic Jesus for Christian Involvement in Interfaith Dialogue; 'A.Race - 'Interreligious Prayer between Christians and Muslims; 'G.D'Costa - 'Interfaith Spirituality or Interspirituality? A New Phenomenon in a Postmodern World;' U.King - 'The Mahatma and the Philosopher: Mohandas Gandhi and John Hick and their Search for Truth; 'S.Sugirtharajah - 'PART III: THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ORIENTATIONS - John Hick: Theologian or Philosopher of Religion?; 'C.Gillis - 'Humane Spirit b Towards a Liberal theology of Resistance and Respect; 'G.Newlands - 'Mediating Relativism and Absolutism in Tillich's and Hick's Theories of Religious Truth; 'M.A.Stenger - 'John Hick's Pan(en)theistic Monism; 'Y.Nagasawa - 'Faith, Evidence, and Evidentialism; 'S.T.Davis - 'Keeping Hick from Hell: Answering the Isolationist Objection to Hick's Universalism; 'T.Musgrove - 'Suffering as Transformative: Some Reflections on Depression and Free Will; 'A.P.Scrutton - 'PART IV: JOHN HICK'S WRITINGS AND THEIR IMPACT - The Revival of Philosophy of Religion and the contribution of John Hick to this; 'P.Badham - 'John Hick and Chinese Religious Studies; 'Z.Wang - 'John Hick's Religious Interpretation of Religion: An Unexplored Resource for Religious Educators; 'G.Teece - 'Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29669-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 23/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés