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Understanding Religious Diversity: A Journey into Religions of the World

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Understanding Religious Diversity: A Journey into Religions of the World

Third Edition   Ko, © 2021, 197 pages

This textbook is suitable for a world religions course.

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About the Author

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Young Woon Ko received his BA degree in philosophy from Hanshin University in Korea. He earned his M.Div. degree from Boston University, Th.M. degree from Harvard Divinity School, and MA and Ph.D degree from Vanderbilt University. His teaching and research areas include comparative religion, Eastern philosophy and religion, systematic theology, and history/critical theories of religion.

He is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio. He teaches Introduction to World Religions, Introduction to the Study of Religion, Exploring the Bible, Religion in America, Eastern Philosophy, and Religion and Science. He is the author of The Beauty of Balance: A Theological Inquiry into Paradox (2009) and Jung on Synchronicity and Yijing: A Critical Approach (2011).

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This book discusses religious diversity and examines the significance of interreligious dialogue by exploring religions of the world: the religions that began in India; Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism; Chinese religions including Confucianism and Daoism as well as Korean and Japanese religions. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, each of which traces its ancestry to Abraham, are discussed in terms of their development in the West as well as in the Middle East, where they began.

Finally, how to understand religious diversity in a religiously pluralist society is considered. By discussing four different responses to religious diversity, exclusivism, inclusivism, relativism, and pluralism, the last chapter examines the problems and significance of each response for interreligious dialogue.

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