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Religious Tolerance, Diversity, and Pluralism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2011

Peter Byrne
Peter Byrne
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King's College London
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The theme of this paper can be introduced in this way: does a pluralist approach to religion entail a pluralist approach to religion? My theme is not that odd, because I have two notions of pluralism in mind. There is what I will call ‘tolerant pluralism’ and what I will call ‘religious pluralism’. And thus my question is ‘Does tolerant pluralism re religion entail religious pluralism?’

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 68: Philosophy and Religion , July 2011 , pp. 287 - 309
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2011

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