Process and Pluralism : : Chinese Thought on the Harmony of Diversity / / Zhihe Wang.

This book offers a uniquely process relational oriented Chinese approach to inter-religious dialogue called Chinese Harmonism. The key features of Chinese harmonism are peaceful co-existence, mutual transformation, and openness to change. As developed with help from Whiteheadian process thought, Chi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Process Thought , 23
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Physical Description:1 online resource (221 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
TABLE OF CONTENTS --
FOREWORD --
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --
INTRODUCTION --
Chapter 1: The Road toward Religious Pluralism: A Historical Survey --
Chapter 2: John Hick’s Religious Universalism: A Process Response --
Chapter 3: Heim’s Religious Particularism And a Process Alternative --
Chapter 4: Whiteheadian Religious Pluralism --
Chapter 5: Chinese Harmonism --
Chapter 6: Philosophical Foundation of Chinese Harmonism --
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --
INDEX
Summary:This book offers a uniquely process relational oriented Chinese approach to inter-religious dialogue called Chinese Harmonism. The key features of Chinese harmonism are peaceful co-existence, mutual transformation, and openness to change. As developed with help from Whiteheadian process thought, Chinese harmonism provides a middle way between particularism and universalism, showing how diversity can exist within unity. Chinese harmonism is open to similarities among religions, but it also emphasizes that differences among religions can be complementary rather than contradictory. Thus Chinese harmonism implies an attitude of respect for others and a willingness to learn from others, without reducing the other to one’s own identity: that is, to sameness. By emphasizing the possibility of complementariness, a process oriented Chinese harmonism avoids a dichotomy between universalism and particularism represented respectively by John Hick and S. Mark Heim, and will make room for a genuine openness and do justice to the culturally and religiously “other.”
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110328448
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ISSN:2198-2287 ;
DOI:10.1515/9783110328448
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Zhihe Wang.