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This book offers a uniquely process relational oriented Chinese
approach to inter-religious dialogue called Chinese Harmonism. The
key features of Chinese harmonism are peaceful co-existence, mutual
transformation, and openness to change. As developed with help from
Whiteheadian process thought, Chinese harmonism provides a middle
way between particularism and universalism, showing how diversity
can exist within unity. Chinese harmonism is open to similarities
among religions, but it also emphasizes that differences among
religions can be complementary rather than contradictory. Thus
Chinese harmonism implies an attitude of respect for others and a
willingness to learn from others, without reducing the other to one
s own identity: that is, to sameness. By emphasizing the
possibility of complementariness, a process oriented Chinese
harmonism avoids a dichotomy between universalism and particularism
represented respectively by John Hick and S. Mark Heim, and will
make room for a genuine openness and do justice to the culturally
and religiously other. "
The primary goal of this volume is to describe the contemporary
state of affairs in Western psychotherapy, and to do so in a
Whiteheadian spirit: with genuine openness to the relative ways in
which creativity, beauty, truth, and peace manifest themselves in
various cultural traditions. This Whiteheadian Dialogue explores
afresh an important cross-elucidatory path: what have we, and what
can be learned from a dialogue with Eastern worldviews? In order to
generate meaningful contrasts between these different systems of
thought, all the papers address common core issues. On one hand,
how does the given system understand the interaction of the
individual, society, and nature (or cosmos)? On the other hand,
what is the paradigm of all pathology and what is its typical or
curative pattern?
Whitehead acknowledged that 'the philosophy of organism seems to
approximate more to some strains of.Chinese thought.' Some scholars
have attempted to explore this relationship and its implications.
The Beijing Conference provided a good forum for interested and
engaged scholars to address each other directly, in an atmosphere
of mutual regard and respect. The ongoing scholarly work on process
thinking in China is impressive. It is the editors conviction that
the publication of this book in English will promote international
discussion of the themes and issues herein set forth. This should
contribute significantly to the broader discussion between West and
East, so important in this age of cultural globalization.
Contributors: John B Cobb, Jr, David R Griffin, Catherine Keller,
Meijun Fan, Ronald Phipps, Joseph Grange, George Derfer, Wang Shik
Jiang, Brook Ziporyn, Michel Weber, Wenyu Xie, HUAN Huogui, Zhihe
Wang, HAN Zhen LI Shiyan, ZHANG Nini."
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