*With so many conflicting religions, can any one claim to be true?* Scholar of comparative religion William Grassie explores how diverse belief systems address the same fundamental human questions while arriving at radically different answers—and whether these differences reflect cultural “languages” expressing shared concerns, or challenge any religion’s claim to exclusive truth.
0:00 The Problem of Conflicting Religions
0:30 A Universalist Approach
1:09 Religion as Cultural Language
2:45 Same Questions, Different Answers
3:23 Diversity Within Religions
4:22 Religions and Ultimate Reality
7:08 The Problem with Exclusivism
William John Grassie is an American interdisciplinary scholar, social activist, and organizational consultant. He received his doctorate in comparative religion from Temple University and his BA in political science from Middlebury College. A leader in the interdisciplinary and international dialogue between science and religion, Grassie is at work on a book-length study of the evolutionary phase in which human cultural processes begin to dominate the biological development of the planet.
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