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reference type	Book
title	The Garden of Reality : Transreligious Relativity in a World of Becoming
author	Faber, Roland
authority control	Roland Faber
year	2018
publisher	Lexington Books
place published	Lanham, MD
ISBN	9781498576239
abstract	The Garden of Reality contemplates the relativity of religious truth, religious pluralism, transreligious discourse, postmodern cosmology, and multireligious mysticism. Its transreligious approach aims at a future multireligious, peaceful society in an ecological and cosmic context. It proposes that the future of humanity is bound to conviviality with itself and the Earth, that the deepest religious motivations of existing together are relative to one another, and that transreligious relativity is essential to the conviction of religions that their motivations, experiences, and conceptualities are meaningful, real, and true. By engaging diverse voices from poststructuralism to Sufism, Dzogchen, and philosophical Daoism, from conceptual frameworks of Christianity and Hinduism to mystical and postmodern cosmology, current cosmopolitanism, and interreligious and interspiritual discourses, but especially understudied contributions of process thought and the Bahá'í religion, this book suggests that multireligious conviviality must listen to the universal relevance of a multiplicity of minority voices. Its polyphilic pluralism affirms the mutual immanence and co-creative nature of religions and spiritualities with the universal in-sistence of divine or ultimate reality in the cosmos. Embracing a relativistic and evolutionary paradigm in an infinite cosmos of creative becoming, religions must cope with events of novelty that disturb and connect, transcend and contrast, the continuum of their truth claims, but must avoid conflict, as religious diversity is enveloped by an ever-folding landscape of ultimate reality.
notes	Bahá'í Faith referenced throughout. LCCN 2018012209. 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-522) and index.
language	English
keywords	RELIGIONS; RELATIONS; PLURALISM; TRANSRELIGIOUS DISCOURSE; MYSTICISM
number of pages	xiv, 565
call number	BL41 .F33 2018
accession number	20433139

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