Sharada Sugirtharajah, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Theology, Philosophy and Religion, University of Birmingham

Situates Hick's philosophy of religious pluralism in a wider global context

Offers a spirited reappraisal of Hick's pluralistic hypothesis from within Western, Eastern and African perspectives

Makes a significant contribution to the ongoing debate on religious pluralism

1. Introduction; Sharada Sugirtharajah.- Part 1 Hick's Religious Pluralism: A Western Reappraisal.- [...] Translucency of the Real: Revisiting John Hick's Pluralistic Hypothesis; Kenneth Rose.- 3. Religious Pluralism and Critical Realism; Perry Schmidt-Leukel.- 4. Pointers to Pluralism Not Relativism; Alan Race.- 5. Ethics and Pluralism; Keith Ward.- 6. Jewish Pluralism and John Hick; Dan Cohn-Sherbok.- Part II Re-envisioning Hick's Religious Pluralism: Indic and Islamic Responses.- 7. Eating Sugar, Becoming Sugar, Both, or Neither? Eschatology and Religious Pluralism in the Thought of John Hick; Swami Medhananda.- 8. On the Shoulders of a Giant: The Re-envisioning and Reconstruction of John Hick's Pluralistic Hypothesis; Jeffery D. Long.- 9. The Knowable and the Unknowable 'Real' in Radhakrishnan's and Hick's Thinking; Sharada Sugirtharajah.- 10. Hick's Theory of Religion and the Inclusive Option; Amir Dastmalchian.- Part III Hick's Religious Pluralism: Asian and African responses.- 11.Chinese Daoism and Ultimate Reality: An Interpretation Based on John Hick's Religious Pluralism; ZhichengWang.- 12. Hick's religious pluralism and Korean Theology of Indigenization; Iljoon Park.- 13. Japanese Responses to Hick's Religious Pluralism: Hick's liberalism inherited from British Idealism; Naoki Kitta.- 14. The Significance of John Hick's Soteriological and Ethical Criteria for Religiously Pluralistic Nigeria; Olusegun Noah Olawoyin