Revisiting the Antecedents of Interreligious Dialogue
This article looks critically at the trend to connect contemporary interreligious dialogue with certain events and developments that took place in Europe and India during the 19th and early 20th centuries: (i) the comparative study of religion, (ii) the 1893 World Parliament of Religions in Chicago,...
| Subtitles: | In Honesty and in Hope: Rethinking Interreligious Engagement for Our Times |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2019]
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| In: |
The ecumenical review
Year: 2019, Volume: 71, Issue: 5, Pages: 719-738 |
| RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBA Western Europe KBK Europe (East) KBM Asia RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Inculturation
B World Missionary Conferences B World Parliament of Religions B Comparative Religion B renascent Hinduism B Interreligious Dialogue |
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| Summary: | This article looks critically at the trend to connect contemporary interreligious dialogue with certain events and developments that took place in Europe and India during the 19th and early 20th centuries: (i) the comparative study of religion, (ii) the 1893 World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, (iii) three World Missionary Conferences in the first half of the 20th century, (iv) renascent Hinduism in India, and (v) Indian Christian efforts for inculturation. These events/developments are often perceived as the formative factors of dialogue. But this essay argues that they had their own complexities, agendas, and targets and rarely had interreligious dialogue as their objective or focus. Uncritical reading of the history of interreligious dialogue ignores how colonialism and imperialism have shaped these "antecedents." |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/erev.12475 |