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RELIGIOUS PLURALISM: THE CHALLENGE OF "UNCONDITIONAL HOSPITALITY"
Religious Pluralism: the Challenge of “Unconditional Hospitality”

Author(s): Basia Nikiforova
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: Religious pluralism; Other; ethnic identity; tolerance; hospitality; religious frontiers

Summary/Abstract: Religious pluralism is analysed in the context of Derrida's definitions such as Other, "conditional and unconditional hospitality", de-territorialization, interiorization, messianicity. The author analyzes crucial questions that faces Christianity today as a question of the demarcation of frontiers with other religious traditions, the reasons and features of "new" religious pluralism, its local perception in the countries of the European Union and such manifestations of religious aspects of postmodernism as the refusal of regulation of the religious sphere with cultural stresses to free choice, the mixing of the religious and the secular, their "hybridization", the denomenalization as a process of free transition of religious frontiers.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 47
  • Page Range: 196-206
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English