Understanding religious pluralism [electronic resource] : perspectives from religious studies and theology / edited by Peter C. Phan and Jonathan Ray.

These essays were originally presented at the conference "Understanding Religious Pluralism: Religious and Theological Perspectives," held May 23-25, 2012 at Georgetown University and organized by the Graduate Program in Theological and Religious Studies of the Department of Theology, Georgetown University. They have been revised for publication.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Following the flows: diversity, Santa Fe, and method in religious studies / Thomas A. Tweed -- Between the one and the many in the study of religious pluralism: a response to Thomas Tweed / Francisca Cho -- Botánicas: sacred sites of plural religious encounter / Joseph M. Murphy -- The Buddha and the Dalai Lama on religious pluralism / J. Abraham Vélez de Cea -- The prospects for interreligious and intercultural understanding: the Jesuit case and its theoretical implications / Charles B. Jones -- Paul, practical pluralism, and the invention of religious persecution in Roman antiquity / Paula Fredriksen -- Families of religion, then and now: a response to Paula Fredriksen / Jonathan Ray -- Judaism, Christianity, and modernity: Charles Péguy and the mysticism of the Dreyfus affair / Matthew W. Maguire -- Lashon ha-Ra and Jewish practical pluralism: a case study fo Sefer Chafetz Chaim / Charles Bernsen -- The Jewish origins of an American idea: Horace Kallen's cultural pluralism / Daniel Greene -- Religious pluralism in Islam / Thomas Michel -- Response to Tom Michel / Paul L. Heck -- One faith, different rites: Nicholas of Cusa's new awareness of religious pluralism / Pim Valkenberg -- Lateral and hierarchical religious difference in the Qurʼan: Muslima theology of religious pluralism / Jerusha Tanner Lamptey -- Outside de jure religious pluralism no dialogue: a critical socio-theological assessment of Christian-Muslim dialuge in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa / Marinus C. Iwuchukwo -- The shifting significance of theologies of religious pluralism / S. Mark Heim -- From soteriology to comparative theology and back: a response to S. Mark Heim / Peter C. Phan -- What has Renaissance polyphony to offer theological method? / John N. Sheveland -- Karl Rahner's "anonymous Christianity" in light of pluralism and contemporary theology of religions in Asia / Todd E. Johanson -- Relativism, universalism, and pluralism in the age of globalization: a reflection on Raimon Panikkar's approach / Young-chan Ro.