Hill Fletcher Monopoly On Salvation Summary

Most religious adherents, especially Christians, are often challenged with how to interact with and understand people who belong to religious traditions outside of their own. In a time of immense religious diversity, it is now more important than ever to try and solve this issue in attempt to promote peace among traditions. In Jeannine Hill Fletcher’s essay, Monopoly on Salvation? A Feminist Approach to Pluralism, she attempts to answer this problem with the concept of hybridity. The approach introduced by Hill Fletcher on how to coexist with participants of other religions will benefit anyone who chooses to follow it, Christian or not. Through understanding hybridity, people from varying religious traditions should be able to live peacefully together. The leading question in this chapter on hybridity asks, “How can Christians recognize and respect the differences of other faiths, while at the same time fostering the connections of solidarity so desperately needed in our ‘divided’ yet shrinking world?” This question is not uncommon. Understanding and respecting different religions and its followers is a struggle that plagues many people, …show more content…
This should not be forgotten. Hill Fletcher mentions that, “Seeing each individual identity as web, we can no longer afford a simple designation of ‘Christian,’ ‘Muslim,’ or ‘Jew,’ instead the category itself is made up of a collective diversity wherein each individual is a particular Christian, a particular Muslim or a particular Hindu, with identity features irreducible to the collective.” Each individual is made up of so much more than just their religious identity. It is still a very important aspect to an identity, but it should not be