Constructive Dialogical Pluralism: A Context of Interreligious Relations |
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Authors: | Willy Pfändtner |
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Institution: | 1.Study of Religions, S?dert?rn University,Huddinge,Sweden |
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Abstract: | This article presents current philosophical reflections on religious diversity and concomitant attitudes towards the interreligious
situation. The motive behind this presentation is to show that in order to deal more efficiently with the phenomenon of religious
plurality, there is a need for a development of the philosophy of religion, where new perspectives are opened up and explored.
The very concept of religion as a belief system is put into question, since it has caused philosophical reflections on religious
diversity to be confined to certain metaphysical and epistemological concerns. Instead of focusing on the noun ‘religion’,
the article suggests a way to understand the adjective ‘religious’ and view religious plurality as a plurality of ways of
being religious. This opens up a certain context of interreligious relations and interreligious dialogue, where this very
dialogue itself can contribute to the development of philosophical tools, concepts and categories for dealing with the fact
of plurality. I call this context constructive dialogical pluralism. |
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