‘Dear Hindu Friends’: official Diwali greetings as a medium for diplomatic dialogue

This article discusses greeting messages as a genre of interreligious communication. Greeting messages are defined as official communication issued by religious institutions and addressed to the members of another religious community on the occasion of specific feast days or anniversaries. Drawing o...

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Main Author: Barbato, Melanie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2020]
In: Religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 50, Issue: 3, Pages: 353-371
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Catholic church, Consilium pro Dialogo inter Religiones / Ökumenischer Rat der Kirchen / Greeting / Divali / Interfaith dialogue / History 2015-2017
RelBib Classification:BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Diwali
B World Council of Churches
B Diplomacy
B Catholic Church
B Hinduism
B Rhetoric
B Interreligious Dialogue
B politolinguistics
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