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Pluralism   /plˈʊrəlˌɪzəm/   Listen
Pluralism

noun
1.
A social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated.
2.
The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
3.
The practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time.





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"Pluralism" Quotes from Famous Books



... Crabbe's clerical career, it may be well to intimate at once that no peculiar blame attaches to him in the matter. He but "partook of the frailty of his times." During these latter years of the eighteenth century, as for long before and after, pluralism in the Church was rather the rule than the exception, and in consequence non-residence was recognised as inevitable, and hardly matter for comment. The two Dorsetshire livings were of small value, and as Crabbe was now looking forward ...
— Crabbe, (George) - English Men of Letters Series • Alfred Ainger
... calls the fight for character. Such a solution as this is consistent with the love of God and the moral order; whether it is consistent with a thoroughgoing monism or not is another question. William James doubted it and so frankly adopted Pluralism—which is perhaps just a way of saying that we cannot reconcile the contending forces in our world order with one over-all-controlling power—as his solution of ...
— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins


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