Given the variety of pluralistic societies and intensity of trans-national interactions, such openness seems to many to be the only guarantee of stable social and political life (see the debate in Shapiro and Kymlicka 1997).
China is multi-ethnic with a rich, harmonious cultural tradition, and its ethnic cultures form a complex of entities infiltrating each other through pluralistic combination, coexistence of diversity, and multipolar interaction.
Informal CTC health service providers play a key role in Bangladesh's pluralistic health system, yet the reasons for their popularity and their interactions with formal providers and the community are poorly understood.
"It has at its heart a view about religion and about the interaction between religion and politics that is not compatible with pluralistic, liberal, open-minded societies," he said.
Humans construct gender through their day-to-day interactions with others [ 13] and these contextual interactions may necessitate pluralistic masculinities [ 10].
Understanding the interactions, communications and partnerships between CTC health service providers and the community is critical in this pluralistic provider context, in order to increase the number and appropriateness of referrals between providers, including referrals from the informal to the formal sector [ 19].
Explanations of illness could not be neatly separated into pluralistic categories, but were characterised by syncretism, with "lay" and "biomedical" terms and concepts intermingling in practical care-seeking interactions between caretakers and health staff.
The metaphysics is, therefore, pluralistic.
"Our pluralistic ethos should not be lost".
Mr. Lotfi points to pluralistic Turkey.
