Dialogue, Difference and the Third Space of Religions

Arguments for a New Understanding of Religion and Culture

2017
key note lecture in Jakarta, Indonesien

….Dialogue is much more than a cultural technique and an instrument. At the same time, it is important to say that it is also an instrument and a technique that goes hand in hand with the ideas of human rights and efforts to find compromise between different interests, ideologies and religions. It is also quite evident that in this kind of dialogue the power aspect plays a certain role. Hence compromise is the unavoidable consequence of such pragmatic talks and exchanges. In the German language the words for trade, Handel, and negotiating, Verhandeln, share the same etymological root…. 

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