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A New Religious American (San Francisco: Harper-Collins, 2001): 14-[^18]: [^4] Coward, Harold. Pluralism: Challenge to World Religions (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1985): [^9]: [^5] Champion, Francoise. “The Diversity of Religious Pluralism.” International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS), Vol. 1, No.

2, 1999: 40-[^44]: [^6] Ibid., [^44]: [^7] Ibid., [^50]: [^8] Ibid., [^45]: [^9] “Modes of Religious Pluralism under Conditions of Globalization.” UNESCO MOST Journal on Cultural Pluralism, vol. 1, [^1999]: (Internet access) [^10] Hick, John. God Has Many Names (London: Macmillan, 1980): 2-[^10]: [^11] Hick, John. “Whatever Path Men Choose is Mine,” in Christianity and Other Religions (New York: Columbia University Press, 1963):180-[^183]: [^12] Machacek, David.

“The Problem of Pluralism.” Sociology of Religion 2003, 64:2: 145-[^61]: [^13] Peter Berger is an American sociologist and theologian and well known for his work “ The Social Construction of Reality : A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge .” [^14] Chaves, Mark and Philip Gorski. “Religious Pluralism and Religious Participation.” Annual Review of Sociology , 2001, Vol. 27 Issue 1: 261- [^79]: [^15] Ibid., 261-[^263]: [^16] Beckford, James.

“Politics and Religion in England and Wales.” Daedalus 120, 1991(3): 179-[^95]: [^17] Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916-2000) is widely known for his work on Islam, especially his commitment to cross-cultural comparison.

Smith is perhaps better known for his work on methodology (that is, his studies on how one ought to go about studying religions), his interest in developing a global theology of religious pluralism, as well as his administrative work in helping to establish/revive centers for pursuing the academic study of religion in general, or Islam in particular. Major works: Toward a World Theology: Faith and the Comparative History of Religion.

( Source: http://www.as.ua.edu/rel/aboutrelbiowcsmith.html ) [^18] Smith, Wilfred Cantwell.