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Given our current world situation, models of inter-religious relationship have more than academic significance. The rapid rate at which the world is shrinking and the close proximity of practitioners of various religions are forcing us to acknowledge and understand worldviews that differ from and often oppose our own. Therefore, this paper proposes a working model, that is, one that may serve as a tool to accomplish the unity that our shrinking world demands, if not by the merging of ideologies, at least by the respect and care given one another in community.
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O’Neill, M. (1993). A Model of the Relationship between Religions Based on Feminist Theory. In: Inter-Religious Models and Criteria. Library of Philosophy and Religion Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23017-4_3
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