On this pluralistic foundation, immigrants and native-born innovators freely built.
Meanwhile, in a number of Western countries (chiefly in Europe, but also to some extent in the United States), the study of religion on a pluralistic and multidisciplinary basis is being increasingly viewed as an important element in the education of secondary school students.
Such was the basis for a pluralistic religious settlement in England under the Commonwealth in which parish churches were led by men of Presbyterian, Independent, Baptist, or other opinions.
Mr. Rawls focused increasingly on the issue of religious pluralism, redesigning the theory to show that it could offer principles that all the major religions, and nonreligious people, could accept as a basis for life together in a pluralistic society.
A particular theology can never make a good basis for public policy in a pluralistic, democratic society.
The separation of church and state thwarts both secular domination and theocracy, giving Christians a theoretical basis for political participation in a pluralistic society: we advocate our positions while co-ruling with others; we do not dominate.
Ōhashi Ryōsuke's thesis, advanced already in his landmark German anthology, Die Philosophie der Kyōto-Schule (1990, revised edition 2012), is that the Kyoto School should be understood as a group of thinkers involved in a pluralistic yet cooperative and sustained attempt to think on the basis of an idea of "nothingness" or "absolute nothingness".
I argue that in practice, most conservation programs should adopt a pluralistic and pragmatic approach, adopting multiple goals and making decisions on the basis of what works.
However, even if we were to agree with pluralists that both exclusivists and inclusivists are wrong to claim that the basis for true salvation can be found in only one religion, the question of what type of pluralistic hypothesis we ought to affirm remains.
Annan's plan is not a bad one, despite the fact that it has been based on keeping the regime in Damascus in place, not on the basis of it handing over the keys of power to a pluralistic government.
