Religious truth and identity in an age of plurality

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AcknowledgementsGeneral IntroductionPeter Jonkers and Oliver J. WiertzPart I: Religious Diversity and TruthChapter 1: Introduction to Part I. The Truth-Aptness of Religious Discourse and the Problem of Realism in Relation to Religious Diversity and Pluralism.Sami PihlstroemChapter 2: Truth, Suffering and Religious Diversity. A Pragmatist PerspectiveSami PihlstroemChapter 3: Truth, Meaning and Interreligious UnderstandingAke WahlbergChapter 4: Belief as an Artefact. Implications for Religious DiversityElena KalmykovaChapter 5: Maimonides and Kierkegaard on Fictionalism, Divine Hiddenness and the Scope for Interreligious DialogueNehama VerbinPart II: Epistemic Consequences of Religious DiversityChapter 6: Introduction to Part II. The Epistemic Consequences of Religious Diversity.Katherine Dormandy and Oliver J. WiertzChapter 7: The Epistemic Implications of Religious DiversityJohn CottinghamChapter 8: Epistemic Desiderata and Religious PluralityOliver J. WiertzChapter 9: "In Abundance of Counsellors There is Victory": Reasoning about Public Policy from a Religious WorldviewKatherine DormandyChapter 10: Respecting Religious Otherness as Otherness versus Exclusivism and Religious Pluralism: Towards a Robust Interreligious DialogueDirk-Martin GrubePart III: Practical Questions Concerning Religious DiversityChapter 11: Introduction to Part III. Practical Questions Concerning Religious DiversityVictoria S. HarrisonChapter 12: Christians and the Practice of ZenAlexander Loeffler SJChapter 13: Reconsidering the Concept of Mission in the Light of Comparative TheologyKlaus von StoschChapter 14: How to Break the Ill-Fated Bond between Religious Truth and Violence?Peter JonkersChapter 15: Can Religious Diversity Help with the Problem of Religiously-Motivated Violence?Victoria S. HarrisonIndex of names and termsList of Contributors