Approaches to religious diversity or truth

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For each statement, identify which approach to religious diversity or religious truth is the best technical term to describe it.

For each statement, identify which approach to religious diversity or religious truth is the best technical term to describe it.

There may be only one true religion, but no one knows which one it is.

There is no god and no transcendent reality.

Religion refers to cultural markers like language and ritual; it does not refer to any transcendent or non-verifiable reality.

We cannot properly assess religious statements for their truth value except within the context of their proper culture, language, and world-view.

India is a Hindu nation and adherents of non-Hindu religions should be restricted as to their public religious activities and expressions.

Nearly all religions share a high esteem for compassion and religionists can cooperate and collaborate in the promotion of compassion between and amongst all people.

All religions are true with respect to the cultural and historical systems in which they are born and continue to be practiced.

While there is one religion that is the most true of all; other religions recognize aspects of this truth to some extent or other. To that degree, we can cooperate and collaborate for the benefit of all people.

Most or nearly all religions are in touch with and give expression to a universal, transcendent reality to some extent.

Sunni Islam is the authentic practice of Muslim faith; other interpretations are heretical.

The truth of religious statements does not reflect a one-to-one correspondence to reality but their consistency and adequacy as statements about religious beliefs and experiences.

We can not really know how true any one religion is.

Not all religions are true, but one or other religion may be closer to the truth than others. This does not mean there is no God. It may only mean that we cannot understand what God is like.

My religion is true and when I speak about angels, souls, demons, boddhisattvas, karma, Tao, or gods (depending on my religion), I am describing real, transcendent, usually imperceivable beings.

My own religion is correct, although it may be wrong in one or two areas.

There may be only one true religion, but no one knows which one it is.

atheism

agnosticism

religious exclusivism

religious extremism

religious pluralism

religious inclusivism

shared values approach

religious relativism

religious realism

religious non-realism

There is no god and no transcendent reality.

atheism

agnosticism

religious exclusivism

religious extremism

religious pluralism

religious inclusivism

shared values approach

religious relativism

religious realism

religious non-realism

Religion refers to cultural markers like language and ritual; it does not refer to any transcendent or non-verifiable reality.

atheism

agnosticism

religious exclusivism

religious extremism

religious pluralism

religious inclusivism

shared values approach

religious relativism

religious realism

religious non-realism

We cannot properly assess religious statements for their truth value except within the context of their proper culture, language, and world-view.

atheism

agnosticism

religious exclusivism

religious extremism

religious pluralism

religious inclusivism

shared values approach

religious relativism

religious realism

religious non-realism

India is a Hindu nation and adherents of non-Hindu religions should be restricted as to their public religious activities and expressions.

atheism

agnosticism

religious exclusivism

religious extremism

religious pluralism

religious inclusivism

shared values approach

religious relativism

religious realism

religious non-realism

Nearly all religions share a high esteem for compassion and religionists can cooperate and collaborate in the promotion of compassion between and amongst all people.

atheism

agnosticism

religious exclusivism

religious extremism

religious pluralism

religious inclusivism

shared values approach

religious relativism

religious realism

religious non-realism

All religions are true with respect to the cultural and historical systems in which they are born and continue to be practiced.

atheism

agnosticism

religious exclusivism

religious extremism

religious pluralism

religious inclusivism

shared values approach

religious relativism

religious realism

religious non-realism

While there is one religion that is the most true of all; other religions recognize  aspects of this truth to some extent or other. To that degree, we can cooperate and collaborate for the benefit of all people.

atheism

agnosticism

religious exclusivism

religious extremism

religious pluralism

religious inclusivism

shared values approach

religious relativism

religious realism

religious non-realism

Most or nearly all religions are in touch with and give expression to a universal, transcendent reality to some extent. 

atheism

agnosticism

religious exclusivism

religious extremism

religious pluralism

religious inclusivism

shared values approach

religious relativism

religious realism

religious non-realism

Sunni Islam is the authentic practice of Muslim faith; other interpretations are heretical.

atheism

agnosticism

religious exclusivism

religious extremism

religious pluralism

religious inclusivism

shared values approach

religious relativism

religious realism

religious non-realism

The truth of religious statements does not reflect a one-to-one correspondence to reality but their consistency and adequacy as statements about religious beliefs and experiences.

atheism

agnosticism

religious exclusivism

religious extremism

religious pluralism

religious inclusivism

shared values approach

religious relativism

religious realism

religious non-realism

We can not really know how true any one religion is.

atheism

agnosticism

religious exclusivism

religious extremism

religious pluralism

religious inclusivism

shared values approach

religious relativism

religious realism

religious non-realism

Not all religions are true, but one or other religion may be closer to the truth than others. This does not mean there is no God. It may only mean that we cannot understand what God is like.

atheism

agnosticism

religious exclusivism

religious extremism

religious pluralism

religious inclusivism

shared values approach

religious relativism

religious realism

religious non-realism

My religion is true and when I speak about angels, souls, demons, boddhisattvas, karma, Tao, or gods (depending on my religion), I am describing real, transcendent, usually imperceivable beings.

atheism

agnosticism

religious exclusivism

religious extremism

religious pluralism

religious inclusivism

shared values approach

religious relativism

religious realism

religious non-realism

My own religion is correct, although it may be wrong in one or two areas.

atheism

agnosticism

religious exclusivism

religious extremism

religious pluralism

religious inclusivism

shared values approach

religious relativism

religious realism

religious non-realism