RELIGION AND MODERN STUDIES
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Problem, Consequences, SolutionAbstract
Diversity is a great tantalizer. It is the siren of the immense mystery. Though the world has always been religiously plural, reli- gions now find all of their horizons contracting as never before. The last horizon is the horizon of 'exclusivity'.
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