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“Who am I / What is my identity?” This is one of the most important questions in a person’s life and also one of the most difficult to answer. The identity is developed and internalized mostly during the socialization process in childhood. Part of socialization is to learn what groups to identify with, ingroups, and distinguish them from outgroups that you do not belong to. This is a universal tendency of humans and it gives a bias in people´s thinking to see ingroups as “natural”, as opposed to outgroups with strange and different thinking and behaviour. At the same time we must realise that members of outgroups are human beings, just as ourselves, and that for them, what we see as an outgroup, is an ingroup. When borders and distances between in and out become too adamant and separated it can lead to ethnocentrism, stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination or racism. This is, unfortunately, common in our contemporary world with globalisation, and migration of large groups of people. One of the most important ingroups is religion or worldview and they are deeply embedded in a person´s identity. Can Hick´s theory can be used as, or be a starting point for, one of the tools we need to overcome barriers between different world views, including the major religions and secular world views? This paper critically investigates Hick´s theory of pluralism and its plausibility based on a critical analysis of claims/arguments for and against the theory. It also discusses what consequences it could, in an imaginary situation, have if the theory is plausible.

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M.A. Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, 2011 / The thesis investigates the reasons for the decision made by many Zimbabweans to self-settle in remote villages in Limpopo. It shows that while significant literature exists on Zimbabweans in border and urban areas, there are several inter-related factors that are drawing Zimbabweans to rural areas. Thus, this study challenges many common assumptions about cross-border migration while supporting the idea that migrants settle in areas where economic stability can be achieved. This study also shows that the existence of parallel government structures and policy frameworks plays a major role in the ability of Zimbabweans to settle in these areas. This is a case study of Zimbabweans settling in a rural area where there are no pre-existing ethnic or kinship ties. Utilizing empirical qualitative data, this study outlines how Zimbabweans have achieved a degree of stability in one area of Limpopo through a series of rights procurements and access to parallel government structures. This has legitimized their presence within the village while their presence in South Africa outside of this village is precarious at denizenship within the village as Zimbabweans have access to services that are not accessible to them outside best. The legitimacy created by accessing these parallel structures has created de facto of the village. This denizenship, and the security it bestows, is an instrumental factor in the decision making process that had led many Zimbabweans to self-settle in rural areas.

陳家偉. / 手稿本, 複本據手稿本影印. / Thesis (M.Div.)--香港中文大學, 1990. / Shou gao ben, fu ben ju shou gao ben ying yin. / Includes bibliographical references: leaves 161-171. / Chen Jiawei. / Thesis (M.Div.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 1990. / Chapter 一 --- 諸論：「宗教多元化所產生的問題」 --- p.1 / Chapter 二 --- 龔漢思(Hans Kung)的回應 --- p.6 / Chapter 1 --- 前期思想 --- p.8 / Chapter I --- 教會以外，還有救思嗎？ --- p.8 / Chapter II --- 所有宗教都是一樣嗎？ --- p.18 / Chapter III --- 小結 --- p.25 / Chapter 2 --- 後期思想 --- p.30 / Chapter I --- 真宗教的準繩 --- p.34 / Chapter II --- 神學的再思 --- p.40 / Chapter III --- 小結 --- p.51 / Chapter 三 --- 希克(John Hick)的回應 --- p.54 / Chapter 1 --- 三種對其他宗教的態度 --- p.59 / Chapter 2 --- 耶穌的神性地位 --- p.75 / Chapter 3 --- 上帝觀 --- p.85 / Chapter 4 --- 小結 --- p.93 / Chapter 四 --- 關心的問題 --- p.96 / Chapter 1 --- 衡量宗教的準則 --- p.97 / Chapter 2 --- 耶穌基督身份的掙扎 --- p.104 / Chapter 3 --- 上帝的本質 --- p.110 / Chapter 4 --- 宗教是關心人的生活 --- p.114 / Chapter 五 --- 結論 --- p.118 / Chapter 六 --- 注釋 --- p.121 / 第一章注釋 --- p.121 / 第二章注釋 --- p.123 / 第三章注釋 --- p.143 / 第四章注釋 --- p.145 / 第五章注釋 --- p.160 / Chapter 七 --- 書目 --- p.161

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published_or_final_version / Philosophy / Master / Master of Philosophy