Religious pluralism and truth
Subtitle: essays on cross-cultural philosophy of religion
By: edited by Thomas Dean.
Contributors: Dean, Thomas.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Religious pluralism.; Religion -- Philosophy.; Religions -- Relations.
Description: This book is an introduction to cross-cultural philosophy of religion. It presents an alternative to Western-oriented philosophy of religion by focusing on questions of truth in the context of religious pluralism, including the criteria, models, and hermeneutics of cross-cultural truth in religion. The essays included are by some of the leading philosophers of religion and scholars in comparative religious thought such as Ninian Smart, Raimundo Panikkar, Harold Coward, William Wainwright, William Christian Sr. and Frederick Streng.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-261) and index.