The vast majority of human beings derive their religious convictions from participation in a tradition, into which they were either born or converted. An important, but largely neglected, topic, therefore, is when, if at all, such participation is warranted) Quite a lot hangs on the answer to this question. For, as I shall make explicit, if it is warranted to participate in one tradition rather...

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Rosman "Errol" Carrim (M.Div.) is a professor at the Caribbean Nazarene Theological College, Upper Santa Cruz, Trinidad. This paper was presented to the Caribbean Evangelical Theological Association conference in Montego Bay, March 1997. Tn order for us to clearly perceive the .I.challenge of teaching Scripture in a pluralistic age, I believe we must understand what we mean by pluralistic, or p...

knowledge Pluralism in Indian medicine: Medical lore as a genre of medical

John Hick has used revolutionary metaphors in recommending his pluralistic philosophy of religions. To turn from a focus on the particulars of one’s home religion to a focus on the universally available Real is, he famously says, a Copernican “revolution” in religious thought. Hick says that those religious adherents who abandon the traditional positions of exclusivism or inclusivism, positions...

This paper applies theoretical pluralism to studies of poverty. However in order to be more specific it takes as a case study some competing studies of Indian rural tenancy relations. Theoretical pluralism, frequently found in this literature, is defined as a realist alternative to extremes of idealism and relativism. In the area of tenancy studies, idealised rational choice theories are often ...

By introducing the notion of logical pluralism, it can be concluded that up to now theories of semantic information have at least implicitly relied on logical monism, the view that there is one true logic. Adopting an unbiased attitude in the philosophy of information, we ought to ask whether logical pluralism could entail informational pluralism. The basic insights from logical pluralism and t...

With Huntington’s warning of a “clash of civilizations” following the end of the cold war, “cultural pluralism” has become important for enhancing world peace and supporting development. In this paper, cultural pluralism is viewed as a “knowledge society” problem, where intercultural knowledge is produced, disseminated and used within an ecosystem of mutual understanding and respect. The author...

This paper discusses culture, as a source of conflict than of synergy, how affects the use of elearning for pluralism to build a knowledge society. It also argues that the cultural dimensions of Geert Hofstede, who demonstrates that there are national and regional cultural groupings that affect the behavior of organizations, are very persistent across time. The main purpose of this paper is to ...