Stephen Kaplan, Different Paths, Different Summits: A Model for Religious Pluralism.(Book review)

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Stephen Kaplan, Different Paths, Different Summits: A Model for Religious Pluralism. Lanham, MD; Boulder, CO; New York; and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002. Pp. 187. $72.00, cloth; $27.95, paper.

This groundbreaking work moves the discourse on comparative religion beyond a single common ground to many higher grounds, whose diverse paths do not all lead to a single mountain peak; there are many mountains, paths, and peaks. In this book Kaplan invites the reader to envision how more than one religious tradition may ultimately be true, each leading to an utterly ...

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