Abstract
Panikkar’s (The intra-religious dialogue, 1978) classic, re-issued by Paulist Press in 1999, grapples with the theological challenges in the disciplines of comparative theology and the theology of religions through what he terms, “intra-religious dialogue.” In this psychology of religious plurality, I use works from a variety of disciplines to highlight the achievements of Panikkar’s intra-religious dialogue, as well as to critique his work in the hope of finding categories of understanding that can be profitably used to face the inter-personal crises of the contemporary world, namely religious terrorism.
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Kramp, J.M. A Psychology of Religious Plurality: From Intra-Religious Dialogue to Intra-Psychic Reality. J Relig Health 51, 723–733 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-010-9371-6
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