Conclusion: Assessing Hybridity’s Role in Religious Language: Toward an Interreligious/ Interspiritual Future

Abstract

In the introduction to this work, I suggested that there are two main functions of hybridity as a conceptual tool: to analyze theology and religious language in a critical manner. The first one, the negative dimension, is to point out unhealthy symptoms of religion that impede it from becoming a harbinger of hope and a force for unity and peace in the world. The second, more positive function, is to suggest ways by which religion and theology could view and interpret human reality in a way that overcomes or transcends the typical binary division of the world into “us” and “them” and, thus, enhance compassion, peace, harmony, respect, and justice among entities which could be very different from each another.