Preface
Introduction: Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion
Thomas Dean
Part I. Religious Pluralism and Cross-Cultural Truth
1. The Philosophy of Worldviews, or the Philosophy of Religion Transformed
Ninian Smart
2. Philosophical Pluralism and the Plurality of Religions
Raimundo Panikkar
3. Religious Pluralism and the Future of Religions
Harold Coward
Part II. Criteria of Cross-Cultural Truth in Religion
4. Truth, Criteria and Dialogue Between Religions
Ninian Smart
5. Doctrinal Schemes, Metaphysics and Propositional Truth
William J. Wainwright
6. Religious Pluralism and Cross-Cultural Criteria of Religious Truth
Mary Ann Stenger
Part III. Models of Cross-Cultural Truth in Religion
7. The Logic of Oppositions of Religious Doctrines
William A. Christian, Sr.
8. The Doctrines of a Religious Community about Other Religions
Joseph A. DiNoia
9. The Logic of Interreligious Dialogue
Norbert M. Samuelson
10. Gadamer's Hermeneutics as a Model for Cross-Cultural Understanding and Truth in Religion
Mary Ann Stenger
Part IV. Hermeneutics of Cross-Cultural Truth in Religion
11. Rethinking the Doctrine of Double-Truth: Ambiguity, Relativity and Universality
Conrad Hyers
12. Mystical Experience as a Bridge for Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion: A Critique
John Y. Fenton
13. Structures of Ultimate Transformation and the Hermeneutics o fCross-cultural Philosophy of Religion
Frderick J. Streng
14. The Hermeneutics of Comparative Ontology and Comparative Theology
Ashok K. Gangadean
Notes
Contributors
Index