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Buddhism and Religious Diversity (Hardcover, Tion)
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Buddhism and Religious Diversity (Hardcover, Tion)
Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies
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'A major publishing event, not only in Buddhist studies but also
for those working in the area of interfaith encounter and theology
of religions.' Japanese Journal of Religious Studies In today's
globalized world, religious diversity has become one of the
strongest challenges to the self-understanding of any major
religious tradition, provoking two interdependent questions. How
does it see itself in the light of others? And, how does it see
others in the light of its own teachings? While the Abrahamic
religions are often accused of a predominantly intolerant and
exclusivistic attitude to the religious 'other', Eastern
religions-and Buddhism in particular-enjoy the reputation of being
naturally tolerant, absorbing, and even pluralistic towards
competing faiths. Some thinkers (from David Hume to Jan Assmann)
understood religious intolerance as an inevitable property of
monotheism, supposedly absent in the case of non-theistic or
polytheistic religions. More recent research, however, has
suggested that this impression, part of a whole cluster of Western
cliches, is false. Buddhism is-and has been-as much convinced of
its own superiority as any other faith, and has also been involved
in various inter-religious tensions and violent conflicts. The
ways, however, in which Buddhists have thought about the religious
'other', and practically dealt with it, display peculiar features,
which do indeed differ profoundly from what we find in the
Abrahamic faiths. Yet today, Buddhism must address the question
whether it can arrive at a genuine appreciation of religious
diversity, and recognize other religions as different but
nevertheless equally valid. This new four-volume collection from
Routledge's acclaimed Critical Concepts in Religious Studies series
enables users to make sense of this and other dizzying questions.
It brings together the best thinking on Buddhism's relationship
with other faiths and provides a one-stop collection of classic and
contemporary contributions to facilitate ready access to the most
influential and important scholarship. Fully indexed and with a
general and volume introductions, newly written by the editor,
which carefully locate the collected materials in their historical
and intellectual context, Buddhism and Religious Diversity is an
essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by
specialists and scholars working in related areas as a vital
research tool.
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