John Hick's Religious Pluralism in Global Perspective

This volume contains fresh scholarly contributions to mark the birth centenary of John Hick, the internationally well-known philosopher of religion, whose works continue to have significant global relevance in today’s religiously diverse and conflict-ridden world. His writings have reset the paramet...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sugirtharajah, Sharada (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction; Sharada Sugirtharajah
  • Part 1 Hick’s Religious Pluralism: A Western Reappraisal
  • 2. The Translucency of the Real: Revisiting John Hick’s Pluralistic Hypothesis; Kenneth Rose
  • 3. Religious Pluralism and Critical Realism; Perry Schmidt-Leukel
  • 4. Pointers to Pluralism Not Relativism; Alan Race
  • 5. Ethics and Pluralism; Keith Ward
  • 6. Jewish Pluralism and John Hick; Dan Cohn-Sherbok
  • Part II Re-envisioning Hick’s Religious Pluralism: Indic and Islamic Responses
  • 7. Eating Sugar, Becoming Sugar, Both, or Neither? Eschatology and Religious Pluralism in the Thought of John Hick; Swami Medhananda
  • 8. On the Shoulders of a Giant: The Re-envisioning and Reconstruction of John Hick’s Pluralistic Hypothesis; Jeffery D. Long
  • 9. The Knowable and the Unknowable ‘Real’ in Radhakrishnan’s and Hick’s Thinking; Sharada Sugirtharajah
  • 10. Hick’s Theory of Religion and the Inclusive Option; Amir Dastmalchian
  • Part III Hick’s Religious Pluralism: Asian and African responses
  • 11. Chinese Daoism and Ultimate Reality: An Interpretation Based on John Hick’s Religious Pluralism; Zhicheng Wang
  • 12. Hick’s religious pluralism and Korean Theology of Indigenization; Iljoon Park
  • 13. Japanese Responses to Hick’s Religious Pluralism: Hick’s liberalism inherited from British Idealism; Naoki Kitta
  • 14. The Significance of John Hick’s Soteriological and Ethical Criteria for Religiously Pluralistic Nigeria; Olusegun Noah Olawoyin