Dialogul interreligios íŽntre Orient si Occident (Interreligious Dialogue between Orient and Occident)
Author(s): Nicu GavrilutãKeywords: interreligious dialogue, Romania, transition, Oriental religions
Journal: Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
Year: 2003
Full text: http://www.jsri.ro/old/html%20version/index/no_5/nicugavriluta-articol.htm
Publisher: Seminar for the Interdisciplinary Research of Reli
Abstract: The paper attempts at analyzing the bases of interreligious dialogue in the West, as well as the forms of its successful or failed implementation in Romania. The author reviews the causes of the Western recent preoccupation towards the Oriental (especially Indian) religions. Then, he approaches the question of interreligious dialogue from the Romanian perspective, looking for the specific elements that transforms the framework. Thus, he firstly analyzes the failed forms of the interreligious dialogue (that are the stereotypical discourse, the missionary and the proselytism), paying a special attention to the case study of MISA. Finally, he interprets Mircea Eliadeâs writings on India as a successful and fruitful dialogue between two cultures and two religions.