Hermeneutics as cross-cultural encounter: Obstacles to understanding
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cross-cultural understanding.
. cross-cultural understanding dates back to the discovery of the third world, its peoples, and its religions. along this, the place of studying other peoples came in view. demography and orientalism were two disciplines which first aimed at studying other peoples regardless of their beliefs. after some thirty years, emphasis was laid on their beliefs, too. today after disproof of the anticipat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
سال: 2006
ISSN: 2072-8050,0259-9422
DOI: 10.4102/hts.v62i2.365