PLURALITY AND UNITY WITHIN INTRARELIGIOUS DISCOURSE
Keywords:
Intrareligious, DiscourseAbstract
The plural nature of intrareligious discourse and its normative strategies help to preserve as well as set limits to the plurality we experience in our existential situations. By ‘intrareligious’ I mean the discourse prevalent within any given religious tradition, though much of my argumentation could usefully be extrapolated to the field of interreligious discourse as well, i.e., the discourse between persons and communities of different religious traditions. By ‘discourse’ I mean communication comprising of a specific concern, context, orientation, and terminology. The term ‘discourse’ in this study includes not only the cognitive dimensions of religious language, but also affective, existential, practical, and social dimensions of religious communication in general.
References
Sara Mills, Discourse, London: Routledge, 2007.
David Tracy, Dialogue with the Other: The Inter-Religious Dialogue, Louvain: Peeters Press, 1990.
Keith D’Souza, “Religion: A Notional Clarification” in George Karuvelil, ed., Romancing the Sacred? Towards an Indian Christian Philosophy of Religion, ATC: Bangalore, 2007, 39-69.
Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est, Mumbai: Pauline Publications, 2006
Aloysius Pieris, Love Meets Wisdom: A Christian Experience of Buddhism, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1989
Gerald Arbuckle, Violence, Society and the Church: A Cultural Approach, Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2004, 26, original italics.
Maria Baghramian, Relativism, London: Routledge, 2004, 121.
Hye-Kyung Kim and Michael Wreen, “Relativism, Absolutism and Tolerance,” Metaphilosopy 34, 4 (2003), 447-459.
Edward Farley, “Fundamentalism: A Theory,” Cross Currents 55, 3 (2005) 378.
Steve Bruce, Fundamentalism, Cambridge: Polity, 2000, 13.
Xiaorong Li, “Postmodernism and Universal Human Rights: Why Theory and Reality Don’t Mix,” Free Inquiry 18, 4 (1998), 31.
Paul Ricoeur, “The Teleological and Deontological Structures of Action: Aristotle and/or Kant?” in Contemporary French Philosophy, ed. A. Phillips Griffiths, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, 106.
Hans Küng and Karl-Josef Kuschel, eds., A Global Ethic, London: SCM Press, 1993, 21.
Michael Amaladoss, “A Global Ethic for Global Peace? Reflections from Indian Perspectives” in Pilgrims in Dialogue: A New Configuration of Religions for Millennium Christianity, ed. Antony Kalliath, Bangalore: Dharmaram, 2000, 53.
Paul Ricoeur, Oneself as Another, trans. Kathleen Blamey, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Alan Donagan, The Theory of Morality, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.
Jürgen Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, trans. C. Lenhardt and S. Nicholsen, Cambridge, MT: MIT Press, 1990, 66.
Ernst M. H. Hirsch Ballin, “Human Rights” in Christiane Timmerman and Barbara Segaert, eds., How to Conquer the Barriers to Intercultural Dialogue, Brussels: Peter Lang, 2005, 159.
Gerald Arbuckle, Violence, Society and the Church: A Cultural Approach, Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2004.
