A diagram illustrating “hard” and “soft” religious beliefs. The circles’s outer edge symbolizes irreconcilable differences of either practice or doctrine, between the world’s religions. The dividing lines become fainter toward the center, showing how people can set aside sectarian differences and share a common spirituality. The central core stands for the direct mystical experience, which transcends individual belief-systems.

(Copyright © Mary Pat Fisher: Religion in the Twenty-first Century, [Routledge, London, 1999 p.105])

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