Religion and Religions: Making Space for Modesty and Music

Abstract

Re-thinking the plurality of religions is meaningful only to the extent that one is fastidious and self-conscious in recognizing it to be unfinished, a project in the making, as it were. It is here that one might find Liberalism to be wanting given that it offers, what it considers, the best possible response to religious plurality. This Chapter makes a case for modesty in ideas and argues for a conceptual pluralism in philosophical theory. In this context the chapter suggests that there is need to think about the plurality of religions from outside the framework of the terms set by European and Anglo American notions of ‘religion’.