John Hick's Religious Pluralism in Global Perspective

ISBN-13: 9783031110078 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 338 str.

Sharada Sugirtharajah

Opis

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 parameters of religious pluralism. Up till now, Hick’s religious pluralism has been mainly seen in relation to the Western context where Christianity is the predominant religion. This volume includes both Western and non-Western engagement with his thinking in contexts such as Japan, China, Korea, Nigeria, and India, where Christianity is a minority religion with little political power. Its distinctiveness lies in widening the debate on religious pluralism by bringing Hick’s pluralistic hypothesis into a constructive cross-cultural and interreligious conversation with scholars of Hinduism, Jainism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and African traditional religions. In doing so, this collection examines how Hick’s philosophy of religious pluralism has been received, appropriated and appraised by these scholars.  It has been appreciated and critiqued in equal measure, and continues to impact on current thinking on religious pluralism. This volume makes a significant contribution to the debate initiated by Hick. 

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Part 1 Hick’s Religious Pluralism:  A Western Reappraisal

The Translucency of the Real: Revisiting John Hick’s Pluralistic Hypothesis

Religious Pluralism and Critical Realism

Pointers to Pluralism Not Relativism

Ethics and Pluralism

Jewish Pluralism and John Hick

Part II   Re-envisioning Hick’s Religious Pluralism: Indic and Islamic Responses

Eating Sugar, Becoming Sugar, Both, or Neither? Eschatology and Religious Pluralism in the Thought of John Hick, Sri Ramakrishna, and S. Mark Heim

On the Shoulders of a Giant: The Re-envisioning and Reconstruction of John Hick’s Pluralistic Hypothesis

The Knowable and the Unknowable ‘Real’ in Radhakrishnan’s and Hick’s Thinking

Hick’s Theory of Religion and the Inclusive Option

Part III Hick’s Religious Pluralism: Asian and African responses

Chinese Daoism and Ultimate Reality: An Interpretation Based on John Hick’s Religious Pluralism  

Hick’s religious pluralism and Korean Theology of Indigenization

Japanese Responses to Hick’s Religious Pluralism: Hick’s liberalism inherited from British Idealism

The Significance of John Hick’s Soteriological and Ethical Criteria for Religiously Pluralistic Nigeria

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Sharada Sugirtharajah, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Theology, Philosophy and Religion, University of Birmingham

Blurb

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 parameters of religious pluralism. Up till now, Hick’s religious pluralism has been mainly seen in relation to the Western context where Christianity is the predominant religion. This volume includes both Western and non-Western engagement with his thinking in contexts such as Japan, China, Korea, Nigeria, and India, where Christianity is a minority religion with little political power. Its distinctiveness lies in widening the debate on religious pluralism by bringing Hick’s pluralistic hypothesis into a constructive cross-cultural and interreligious conversation with scholars of Hinduism, Jainism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and African traditional religions. In doing so, this collection examines how Hick’s philosophy of religious pluralism has been received, appropriated and appraised by these scholars.  It has been appreciated and critiqued in equal measure, and continues to impact on current thinking on religious pluralism. This volume makes a significant contribution to the debate initiated by Hick. 

Sharada Sugirtharajah, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Theology, Philosophy and Religion, University of Birmingham