Hospitality - a paradigm of interreligious and intercultural encounter Gastfreundschaft als Paradigma interreligiƶser und interkultureller Begegnung / [electronic resource] =
Gastfreundschaft als Paradigma interreligiƶser und interkultureller Begegnung
Edited by Friedrich Reiterer, Chibueze C. Udeani, and Klaus Zapotoczky.
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2012.
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Intercultural Theology and Study of Religions ; 4 .
- Intercultural theology and study of religions ; 4. .
Includes bibliographical references.
The global community is currently being confronted with an increasing urgent demand for dialogue among cultures and religions. The question arises with regards to efficient concepts or tools which will help to shape the encounter of the different religions and cultures of the world with one another. Indicative here is the cognition that hospitality has to do with a factor which is proven in almost all religions and cultures of the world. Hospitality is primarily an existential encounter and as such it brings also the experience of difference in socio-religious traditions and in intercultural relations.