{"id":5512,"date":"2025-12-30T10:47:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=5512"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:25:05","slug":"cultures-and-religions-in-dialogue-pluralism-and-interculture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=5512","title":{"rendered":"Cultures and Religions in Dialogue – Pluralism and Interculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Vol. VI, Part One
Opera Omnia
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Today space and time are being shaken by science and technology and the encounter between peoples and their traditions is becoming increasingly troubled, creating clashes between civilisations and problems of coexistence. We are subjected to political, religious and cultural fanaticism to such an extent that we are understandably longing for universal understanding. A typical example of this mentality is the syndrome of the global village. However noble the intention may be, it is still the result of the colonialist mentality. And yet there is a hunger for true understanding:
“We cannot live in a compartmentalised world. The other becomes a problem precisely because they invade my life and cannot be reduced to my way of seeing things. If one extreme is to think that we are right and the others are wrong, the other extreme is to believe that we are all suited to a type of global village.” Between these two extremes we increasingly find the words pluralism and interculturality, which represent a third approach, the basis for universal understanding. Interculturality is neither cultural relativism (all cultures are equally valid) nor the fragmentation of the human nature. Respect for human dignity demands cultural respect, which is inseparable from mutual knowledge -without which we would fall into the temptation to impose our own culture as the model for human coexistence. In our modern-day age the proliferation of studies on peace and of the associations for its promotion open the way for hope, and the dialogue between cultures, civilisations and religions is a positive sign. Through this book, the author insists on the need to overcome the dichotomies imposed by the classifying genius of the West in order to clarify each kind of problem. Overcoming does not mean cancelling the differences but rather transcending analytical thought, not through mere synthesis but through a holistic approach which allows for the indispensable plurality of cultures.<\/span><\/p>

INDEX OF ORIGINAL TEXTS IN VOLUME VI, PART 1<\/p>

Introduction: it contains a revised part of \u201cThe Pluralism of Truth\u201d in World Faiths Insights<\/em>, XXVI, New York- London 1990, 7-16.<\/p>

\u201cMyth of pluralism: the tower of Babel. A meditation on non-violence\u201d <\/em>in Cross Currents, New York 1979, pp.197-230, from a talk given at the University California, Santa Barbara.<\/p>

\u201cThe Defiance of Pluralism\u201d, Soundings<\/em>, Knoxville 1996, Vol. LXXIX, 1-2, Spring\/Summer, pp.169-191. \u201cReligious Identity and Pluralism\u201d <\/em>in \u00abA Dome of Many Colours \u2013 Studies in Religious Pluralism, Identity, and Unity\u00bb (ed.) A. Sharma e K.M. Dugan, Trinity Press International. Harrisburg, Pensylvania 1999, pp.23-47. Originally written as a contribution for the Centenary of World Parliament of Religions, Chicago 1993.<\/p>

\u201cReligious Pluralism: The Metaphysical Challenge\u201d, <\/em>in Religious Pluralism<\/em>, ed. by L. S. Rouner, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, pp. 97-115.<\/p>

\u201cThe Gospel and Cultural Plurality: \u201cEvangelio y pluralidad cultural\u201d in \u00abSufi\u00bb, n.3 (2002); revision of the Prologue to L. Mazzocchi and J. Forzani, Il Vangelo secondo Giovanni e lo Zen <\/em>(vol. II) Dehoniana, Bologna 2001.<\/p>

\u201cPluralism, Tolerance and Christianity\u201d, orig. vers \u201cPluralism, Toleranz und Christenheit\u201c, (ed.) H. Schomerus, Abendla\u0308ndische Akademie, Nu\u0308rnberg 1961, pp.117-142.<\/p>

\u201cThe Interpellation of Religious Pluralism. Catholic Theology of the Third Millennium\u201d; orig. vers La interpelacio\u0301n del pluralismo religioso. <\/em>Teologi\u0301a cato\u0301lica del III milenio, ed .by J.M.Vigil, L. E. Tomita and M. Barros, Por los muchos caminos de Dios.IV. Teologi\u0301a liberadora intercontinental del pluralismo religioso<\/em>. Agenda Latino-americana, Quito 2006, pp. 156-167.<\/p>

\u201cSome Notes on Syncretism and Ecleticism Related to the Growth of Human Consciousness\u201d in B.A. Pearson, Religious Syncretism <\/em>in Antiquity Essays. <\/em>Scholars Press, Missoula 1975, pp.47-62.<\/p>

\u201cFrom a Plurality of Religions to a Religious Pluralism\u201d; orig. vers. De una pluralidad de religiones a un pluralismo religioso <\/em>inVV.AA \u00abFe Adelante\u00bb, CRISLAM\/Darek & Nuyumba, Madrid 1988. pp.38-46.<\/p>

\u201cEcumenic and critical ecumenism\u201d; orig. vers. Vers un cumenisme ecume\u0300nic <\/em>in \u00abQuestions de vida cristiana\u00bb, n. 140, pp. 80-86, Montserrat 1988 and Ecumenisme cri\u0301tic <\/em>in \u00abQuestions de vida cristiana\u00bb, n.144, pp. 120-123, Montserrat 1988.<\/p>

\u201cThree Important Intercultural Interpellations\u201d; orig. vers. Tres grandes interpretaciones de la interculturalidad <\/em>in \u00abInterculturality, Gender and Education\u00bb, Iko, Frankfurt am Main e London 2004, pp. 27-44. Inaugural talk by the author held at a Congress of Intercultural Philosophy at the Olavide Cultural Center in Carmona.<\/p>

\u201cIntercultural Anthropophany \u201c; Orig. vers. Antropofania intercultural. Identitad humana y fin de milenio <\/em>in \u00abThe\u0301mata\u00bb. n. 23, Sevilla 1999, pp.19-29.<\/p>

\u201cTowards a Theory of Intercultural and Interreligious Liberation\u201d; Orig. vers. <\/em>Hacia una teologi\u0301a de la liberacio\u0301n in Interculturalidad, dia\u0301logo y liberacio\u0301n<\/em>, in H. Kung, J.J. Tamayo-Acosta and R. Fornet-Betancourt, Interculturalidad, dia\u0301logo religioso y liberacio\u0301n,<\/em>Verbo Divino, Pamplona 2005, pp.61-68. Inaugural talk by the author held at IV Parliament of , Barcelona 2004 .<\/p>

\u201cRising Sun and Setting Sun\u201d ; orig. vers. Soleille levant et Soleil couchant, <\/em>in \u00abDioge\u0300ne\u00bb, <\/em>n\u00b0 200, Octobre-De\u0301cembre, Paris 2002, pp. 5-16.<\/p>

\u201cThe Other is Part of Us\u201d; orig. vers L\u2019altro fa parte di noi <\/em>in R. Panikkar, M. Cacciari, J.L. Touadi, Il problema dell\u2019altro. Dallo scontro al dialogo tra le culture<\/em>, L\u2019altrapagina, <\/em>Citta\u0300 di Castello 2007, pp. 9-26.<\/p>

Peace and interculturality. A philosophical reflection<\/em>; orig. text Pace e Interculturalita\u0300. <\/em>Una riflessione filosofica, <\/em>Jaca Book, Milano 2002 (riprinted 2006).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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