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Conversion - A turning, a turning around or in the other direction.
Religious exclusion - The belief that one religion is the only correct, or true, one. This one can be an entire religion, such as Christianity, with its many sects, or a sect within a religion claiming it is the only true faith.
Tribal beliefism - A group worldview that sees all other groups as illegitimate. Such ideology is synonymous with religious exclusion, yet in other groups, it also applies, such as in politics, race, gender, and social class.
Universalism - The Christian teaching, a minority one, holding God will finally welcome all persons into eternal life.
Interspirituality - The act of appreciating the unity of experience undergirding the relative differences among spiritualities.
Interfaith - Relating to the differences and likenesses among religions. Also, "inter-religion." Interfaith does not as surely denote an embrace of the underlying unity of experience, as in interspirituality. A person who is interspiritual feels the unity of the differing wisdom paths intimately. In contrast, a person engaged in interfaith dialogue, for example, may still maintain an exclusionist mindset, even if not strict. That is, the interspiritualist cannot think in terms of her religion being superior to all others.
Embrace - The extent to which a person or group values and treats others as equals. "Inclusion." The opposite of "exclusion."
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