Check it: Particularistic Universalistic Exclusivistic Judaism Islam/conservative Christianity Pluralistic Hinduism/Daoism/Shintoism Liberalism/liberal Christianity/Buddhism
Does this make any sense? Just a general impression that I wanted to recast in matrix form. There seems a contradiction in pluralistic universalism….
Addendum: Please note that I’m making idealized generalizations about the systems of belief. In practice, the typical Jew, Muslim, Hindu and Christian are quite similar in their day-to-day behavior, to a far greater extent than a axiomatic reading of their religious system would indicate. The differences begin to manifest themselves when you sum up the collective behavior of groups of humans and you intregate over time
. Posted by razib at 12:52 PM