Images of Eastern Religions and Roman Catholic Identity
While in the past two decades the Roman Catholic Church has reaffirmed an inclusivist stance with respect to other religions, there is reason to explore the question of whether Catholic teaching is as much about offering a definition of what is true in other religions as it is about defining Catholi...
| Published in: | Mission studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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| In: |
Mission studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Vatican Council 2. (1962-1965 : Vatikanstadt)
/ Buddhism
/ Hinduism
/ Eastern philosophy
/ Interfaith dialogue
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| RelBib Classification: | CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KCC Councils KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Inclusivism
Eastern religions
Roman Catholic Church
representation
identity
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| Summary: | While in the past two decades the Roman Catholic Church has reaffirmed an inclusivist stance with respect to other religions, there is reason to explore the question of whether Catholic teaching is as much about offering a definition of what is true in other religions as it is about defining Catholic identity. In this article, I investigate the representations of Eastern religions within ordinary expressions of Catholic teaching between 1990 and 2000, and I show how Catholic teaching seems to adopt a binary ontology in which the representation of the Other serves to define oneself. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Contains: | In: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341591 |