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8. Development and Social Progress.
9. Gender Discrimination: Female Foeticide, Land and Property Rights;
Empowernment.
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4. Soul: Immortality; Rebirth and Liberation.
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7. Religion without God.
8. Religion and Morality.
9. Religious Pluralism and the Problem of Absolute Truth.
10. Nature of Religious Language: Analogical and Symbolic; Cognitivist and Non-
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