Interpellations of religious pluralism in the Western context

Abstract

The reality of religious pluralism questions the different cultural contexts. In that regard we can not underestimate its history, dynamics and specific complexity. This applies of course also to the Western context. In this article, it also applies to the Italian context, which, as we shall see, has specific historical peculiarities and dynamics in relation to other parts of the Western world. This article aims to interpret the situation of religious pluralism in the Western context, specifically in the Italian context, seeking to understand the social anthropological observations as interpellations for the theology of inter-religious dialogue. The appeals of pluralism become, in fact, theological arguments only in a postmodern theology of dialogue, which the author tries to give a brief description as religious grammar of diversity, highlighting main categories of generosity and hospitality.