The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism

Masuzawa also explores the complex relation of world religions to Protestant theology, from the hierarchical ordering of religions typical of the Christian supremacists of the nineteenth century, to the aspirations of early twentieth-century theologian Ernst Troeltsch, who embraced the pluralist logic of world religions and by so doing sought to reclaim the universalist destiny of European modernity.