This PhD project examines how two modern religious movements, the Ramakrishna Movement within
Hinduism and the Nur Movement in Islam, engage with the question of religious diversity. Modernity
emerged with a Western focus and has gradually evolved into a global transformation process that has
had a profound effect on different religious traditions and cultural structures. This has intensified
interfaith encounters, establishing religious diversity as one of the defining fact of the modern world.
However, reactions to this fact are not homogeneous within religious traditions. However, reactions to
this phenomenon have not been homogeneous within religious traditions. While some movements have
sought to adapt by developing reformist approaches to the challenges of modernity, others have adopted
a more conservative and exclusionary stance, displaying an attitude that rejects the 'other'. However,
revivalist approaches that maintain ties with tradition while attempting to interpret religious diversity
positively have also emerged in the modern era. Notable examples of this approach include the
Ramakrishna Movement in the Hindu world and the Nur Movement in the Islamic world. Notable
examples of this approach include the Ramakrishna Movement in the Hindu world and the Nur
Movement in the Islamic world. Both movements have responded to the religious diveristy by
developing unique theological and discursive frameworks. The Ramakrishna Movement developed an
approach centred on the idea of 'harmony of religions', whereas the Nur Movement reinterpreted
interfaith relations through the concept of 'alliance'. This study aims to analyse the frameworks, arguments, methods and strategies developed by these two
movements in the context of religious diversity, and their theological positions within the exclusivism,
inclusivism and pluralism debates.