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Hospitality and the ethics of religious diversity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2019

KEVIN SCHILBRACK
KEVIN SCHILBRACK*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy and Religion, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, 28608, USA
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e-mail: schilbrackke@appstate.edu
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Abstract

As the discipline of philosophy of religion stretches to become a global, cross-cultural discipline, it takes on ethical questions about how one should treat those who participate in religious forms of life one does not share. This article offers a typology of possible ethical positions in a context of religious diversity and argues that the strongest position is one of conditional hospitality. That is, the moral ideal proposed here is one of welcome to the religious other that is conditional on an accurate moral judgement of their practices, beliefs, and institutions.

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Religious Studies , Volume 56 , Special Issue 1: Philosophy of Religions: Cross-Cultural, Multi-Religious Approaches , March 2020 , pp. 64 - 79
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019

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