pluralism
ploo ruh li zuhm
- n a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated
- n the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements
- n the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time
- Drawing from both Western and Islamic sources, Soroush has laid foundations for Islamic pluralism by challenging Khomeini's claim that Iran's mullahs have a God-given right to .
- The problem, says Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is that "the cultural context and the reality of pluralism has pulled many away from .
- And Europe, it seems, needs her, to highlight a critical challenge: Can a multicultural society produce pluralism without relativism? So far, it doesn't bode well for her plight.