From the native’s point of view – or daddy-knows-best

Bibliographic Data

ID16646202
AuthorsMonica Engelhart (Stockholm University, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume17
Issue2
Publication date1999-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis (CONFERENCE)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0582-3226 • E-ISSN: 2343-4937
PublisherScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.30674/scripta.67263
OpenAlexW1949751193
LanguageEN
References cited25

This paper discusses how a single approach or attempts to leave the specific socio-cultural setting out of the account can only distort our view of the extremely complex phenomenon 'religion'. The problem of understanding “the Other" arises as soon as we meet this other, but where the other seemed too much unlike ourselves, the demand became imperative, either to reject the other totally, or to find ways to communicate, that is, some form of understanding

Epistemology · Law and economics · Phenomenon · Point (geometry · Sociology · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Education and Schools · Study and Philosophy of Religion

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