ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that both the Hindu and the Christian traditions have developed distinctive modes of comprehending religious diversity which are grounded in 'particular' metaphysical and epistemological criteria that structure their views on the nature of the divine reality, human personhood, and the human capacity to know the ultimate. The chapter discusses the problem noted earlier about the 'particularist' approach to religious diversity it seems to push Christian faith and Hindu standpoints towards the subjectivist position that these are 'true' only with the bounds of their socio-cultural and doxastic horizons. In influential figures of neo-Hinduism such as Swami Vivekananda, and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan they find the Hegelian view that 'the truth is the whole', and that Hinduism provides the overarching unity for the truths that people seek through their own religious traditions. Radhakrishnan's charge that Christianity, along with other Abrahamic religions, is a form of religious 'imperialism' appears in two broad forms in contemporary criticisms of Christian evangelization.
