Different Paths...

Different Paths, Different Summits: A Model for Religious Pluralism (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002): [^4]: [^31] Ibid., 4-[^7]: [^32] Holography (from the Greek , Όλος-holos whole + γραφή-graphe writing) is the science of producing holograms; it is an advanced form of photography that allows an image to be recorded in three dimensions . The technique of holography can also be used to optically store, retrieve, and process information.

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography ) [^33] Kaplan, Different Paths, 7-[^9]: [^34] Harold Coward is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria, Canada, and the founding Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society. His areas of concentration have been Indian philosophy and religion, Hinduism, and . Major works: Pluralism in the World Religions.

(Source: http://www.mcmaster.ca/ua/alumni/gallery/coward.htm ) [^35] In this venomous age of Jewish-Arab conflict, it is easy to forget that there once was another age in which Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived shoulder to shoulder in cultural, political and social harmony. During the Golden Age in medieval Spain, Jews, for example, played prominent roles in politics, art, commerce and all major areas of social discourse side by side with their Christian and Muslim brothers and sisters.

They did not hate each other’s religion. On the contrary, their respective theologians learned from each other and used the wisdom learned to enrich their own religion's discourse. [^36] Coward, Harold. Pluralism: Challenge to World Religions. (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1985): 105-[^106]: [^37] Ibid., 107-[^110]: [^38] John Rawls ( 1921- 2002 ) is an American philosopher .

He was a professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Theory of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism , Justice as Fairness: A Restatement , and The Law of Peoples . (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rawls ) [^39] Rawls, John. The Law of Peoples: with the Idea of Public Reason Revisited (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999): 20-[^23]: [^40] Seyyed Hossein Nasr is a professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University, Washington D.C.

He is one of the most important and foremost scholars of Islamic, Religious and Comparative Studies in the world today. Nasr is the author of over fifty books and five hundred articles which have been translated into several major Islamic, European and Asian languages.