How do Christians, Muslims and Hindus interpret religions other than their own? The theoretical framework of the research is models of religious pluralism developed by scholars in the field of theology of religions, especially Knitter. The authors pay special attention to pluralistic models, which have so far remained rather unclear. Special attention is paid to gender as a factor influencing l...

This paper is concerned with gaining greater insight into the interplay between agency and structure in industrial marketing scholarship. The paper’s intent is to embed Midgley’s notion of critical pluralism within this endeavour. The paper commends the movement towards increased deployment of critical realism, but cautions against the dangers of creating further atomism in marketing theory by ...

Pluralism Assimilation and the Indo-Guyanese family ii ABSTRACT Despite the acknowledgment of pluralism, Caribbean family literature often focuses on the Afro-Caribbean family and does not satisfactorily address the issues of the Indo-Caribbean family. This paper examines whether the Indo-Guyanese differ from the dominant culture of the Anglophone Caribbean in the structural arrangements of the...

This paper challenges the language of “interdisciplinarity,” suggesting “pluralistic collaboration” as a better alternative. Interdisciplinarity, team science, and transdisciplinarity frame academic problem-focused collaborations narrowly, overemphasizing epistemology, downplaying extra-disciplinary divides nonacademic collaborators, either ignoring or psychologizing individual-level phenomena....

Abstract Historically Africa has accommodated multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, and multi-religious peoples. Hospitality is imbedded in the DNA of especially sub-Saharan parts continent. Sadly armed conflicts violence are becoming quintessential to African nomenclature. As a result, suffering, poverty, refugees, emigration also endemic This article seeks highlight benefits inclusive pluralism as ph...

The topic of pluralism-multiculturalism is increasingly being discussed and socialized considering that Indonesia a plural multi-cultural nation, Often this situation makes society often divided. Inevitably cause riots, hostility war. One the initiators Pluralism in Ulil Abshar Abdalla, he mentioned as successor Cak Nur (Nurcholis Madjid). also established network called Jaringan Islam Liberal ...

Death concept, death definition, death criterion and death test pluralism has been described by some as a problematic approach. Others have claimed it to be a promising way forward within modern pluralistic societies. This article describes the New Jersey Death Definition Law and the Japanese Transplantation Law. Both of these laws allow for more than one death concept within a single legal sys...

Human groups with no culture or communication cannot exist. this essay addresses changes in the concept of development, as it relates to culture and communication, as a new reference point for practical applications of development and cooperation among nations. the idea of development has changed. economic development has evolved to mean sustainable human development. this shift in meaning repr...