ABSTRACT
In a purely descriptive sense, religious pluralism is synonymous with the phenomenon of religious diversity or plurality, what is ‘religiously other’ within a given social context. In the last few decades, however, the term has acquired a very particular connotation. More often than not, it is used in a normative sense to refer to a specific stance in philosophy and theology, that associated with the name of John Hick and the thinkers of what might be called the ‘Myth of Christian Uniqueness’ school (a project developed in Hick and Knitter 1987 with an important set of counter-proposals in D’Costa 1990a). In its simplest form the thesis states that all religions are equally valid paths to the same transcendent reality.
