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English 144About the Book Challenge to World Religions is a comprehensive treatment of how each major world religion has understood its particular claim to absolute truth In the face of the truth claims of other religions. Out of this study a new set of guidelines for inter-religious dialogue is formulated. There are chapters on Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.About the AuthorHAROLD COWARD is professor and head of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary. He was born at Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and attended the University of Alberta and McMaster University. In 1963 he was ordained to the ministry of the United Church of Canada and served for five years in the pastorate. He has been a research scholar at the Centre for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology, University of Alberta, and at the Centre for Advanced Study in Indian Philosophy, Banaras Hindu University, India.PrefaceReligious experience has been defined as the quest for ultimate reality. In pursuing this quest, religions often seem to have an inherent drive to claims of uniqueness and universality. Many religions exhibit an inner tendency to claim to be the true religion, to offer the true revelation as the true way of salvation or release. It appears to be self-contradictory for such a religion to accept any expression of ultimate reality other than its own. Yet one of the things that characterizes today's world is religious pluralism. The world has always had religious plurality. But in the 1980s the breaking of cultural, racial, linguistic, and geographical boundaries is on a scale that the world has not previously seen. For the first time in recorded history we seem to be rapidly becoming a true world community. Today the West is no l 147.4 Cow p-2088344710X Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 147.4 Cow p-2 E08005132 Non Fiction 147.4 Cow p-2 51VEWRA%2BX0L._SY466_.jpg 42792 2014-12-04 09:53:37 2024-09-03 17:31:41 machine generated