TY - BOOK AU - Reiterer,Friedrich Vinzenz AU - Udeani,Chibueze C. AU - Zapotoczky,Klaus TI - Hospitality - a paradigm of interreligious and intercultural encounter: Gastfreundschaft als Paradigma interreligiöser und interkultureller Begegnung T2 - Intercultural Theology and Study of Religions SN - 9789401207652 (electronic bk.) AV - BL410 .H67 2012eb U1 - 200 22 PY - 2012/// CY - Amsterdam, New York PB - Rodopi KW - Religions KW - Relations KW - Hospitality KW - Religious aspects KW - RELIGION / Comparative Religion KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION / Essays KW - RELIGION / Reference KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=460981 ER -