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    [fullTitle] => Responding to the Religious Reasons of Others: Resonance and Non-Reductive Religious Pluralism
    [abstract] => Call a belief ‘non-negotiable’ if one cannot abandon the belief without the abandonment of one’s religious (or non-religious) perspective. Although non-negotiable beliefs can logically exclude other perspectives, a non-reductive approach to religious pluralism can help to create a space within which the non- negotiable beliefs of others that contradict one’s own non-negotiable beliefs can be appreciated and understood as playing a justificatory role for the other. The appreciation of these beliefs through cognitive resonance plays a crucial role to enable the understanding of those who hold other perspectives. epistemological and spiritual consequences of this claim are explored.
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                    [givenName] => Hajj Muhammad
                    [affiliation] => The Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute
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    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.v5i2.232
    [datePublished] => 2013-06-21
    [pdf] => https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/menuscript/index.php/ejpr/article/view/232/version/181/201
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Responding to the Religious Reasons of Others: Resonance and Non-Reductive Religious Pluralism

Hajj Muhammad
The Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v5i2.232

Abstract

Call a belief ‘non-negotiable’ if one cannot abandon the belief without the abandonment of one’s religious (or non-religious) perspective. Although non-negotiable beliefs can logically exclude other perspectives, a non-reductive approach to religious pluralism can help to create a space within which the non- negotiable beliefs of others that contradict one’s own non-negotiable beliefs can be appreciated and understood as playing a justificatory role for the other. The appreciation of these beliefs through cognitive resonance plays a crucial role to enable the understanding of those who hold other perspectives. epistemological and spiritual consequences of this claim are explored.

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