Zhihe Wang

Process and Pluralism (eBook, PDF)

Chinese Thought on the Harmony of Diversity

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a uniquely process relational oriented Chinese approach to inter-religious dialogue called Chinese Harmonism. The key features of Chinese harmonism are peaceful co-existence, mutual transformation, and openness to change. As developed with help from Whiteheadian process thought, Chinese harmonism provides a middle way between particularism and universalism, showing how diversity can exist within unity. Chinese harmonism is open to similarities among religions, but it also emphasizes that differences among religions can be complementary rather than contradictory. Thus Chinese harmonism implies an attitude of respect for others and a willingness to learn from others, without reducing the other to one's own identity: that is, to sameness. By emphasizing the possibility of complementariness, a process oriented Chinese harmonism avoids a dichotomy between universalism and particularism represented respectively by John Hick and S. Mark Heim, and will make room for a genuine openness and do justice to the culturally and religiously "other."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 221
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783110328448
• Artikelnr.: 44455114

Autorenporträt

Zhihe Wang, P.D., received his B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy from Peking University in Beijing, China, his PhD from the Claremont Graduate University, USA. He was senior research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the vice-chief editor of Social Science Abroad, a journal at national level. Wang is now the director of the Center for Constructive Postmodern Studies at Harbin Institute of Technology in China; as well as the director of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China, in the United States. His recent publications include A Study of Postmodern Philosophical Movement (2006), Whitehead and China (co-edited with George Derfer and Wenyu Xie, 2008), The Roar of Awakening: A Whiteheadian Dialogue Between Western Psychotherapies and Eastern Worldviews (co-edited with George Derfer and Michel Weber,2009 ), and Second Enlightenment (with Meijun Fan, 2011).