The Transcendent Unity of Religions

The transcendent unity of religions is a traditionalist’s approach towards the plurality of religions. For the first time it was Schuon who developed this theory in his book “The Transcendentl Unity of Religions”. Other traditionalist raised and expanded the theory. According to this theory religions have two esoteric and exoteric dimensions. Religions are united only in the esoteric level. But from an exoteric point of view they are different from each other. The realities concerning the exoteric level are relative and the realities pertaining to the esoteric level are absolute. Schoun’s viewpoint suffers from a number of problems such as relativism, and irrationality. The language applied by Schuon to express his view is a difficult language but the author has attempted to explain the theory of the transcendent unity of religions in an easy way and point out the flaws of this theory.