Abstract:

As is well known the issue of living together with “the other” has been started to be one of the most important problem from the beginning of the humanity especially from the controversy between Cain and Abel whose story is told by both the Bible and the Qur’an. This problem both has been getting very complicated and being an existential problem in our own day. Furthermore our contemporary intercommunicating and interdependent universe has made us aware, more clearly but also more painfully than ever before, of the multiplicity of different religions and cultures. Thus the presence, power and richness of the others have vigorously entered our own awareness. Because of these developments the issue of living together with the other has become an important problem which we need to overcome by developing new models which urge us to be more tolerant to others by accepting them as they accept themselves and respecting their otherness. In this article it is dealt with the possible contribution of pluralistic model which has been developed in Wester academies and spreaded all over the world as a response to present religious and cultural diversity of our world. By doing this our main thesis is to present the reader’s attention the following point: As long as a religiously pluralistic world view does not become widespread all over the world it is not possible to take root of the political, social and cultural pluralism in order to establish a world order in which all sides both can live together by establishing on the one hand a common value and harmonious society and on the other hand keep their own distinctive features.

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