Open AccessFrom the native’s point of view – or daddy-knows-best?
Author(s) -
Monica Engelhart
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
scripta instituti donneriani aboensis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2343-4937
pISSN - 0582-3226
DOI - 10.30674/scripta.67263
Subject(s) - phenomenon , point (geometry) , epistemology , sociology , computer science , law and economics , philosophy , mathematics , geometry
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.