Articles
Triple dialogue of Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity in a Consciousness of the Bengal Renaissance Thinkers: the Process and Its Results
Tatiana Skorokhodova
Vostok/Oriens '2016, №2
Based on phenomenological approach, the article describes the triple dialogue between Hinduism, Christianity and Islam, which had been built in consciousness of the thinkers of the Bengal Renaissance in the nineteenth – early twentieth centuries. Phenomenon of triple dialogue is depicted as process of thinking about meanings and forms of other religions for understanding of owns one. There are two variants in triple dialogue. Liberal variant was created by Rammohun Roy and thinkers of the Brahmo Samaj, and it gave high ideal of respecting for other religions as well as Hinduism. Conservative variant was an attempt to represent Hinduism as great ancient spiritual tradition, which embraces all revelations and truths of Christianity and Islam. The results of triple dialogue of religions are 1) understanding of universal meaning of Christianity and Islam, 2) creating of other religion’s images and 3) creating of images of Hinduism in defense of its universal and all-pervading character and truths.
Keywords: dialogue of religions, the Bengal Renaissance, Hermeneutics, religious-philosophical thought, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, subjects of dialogue
Pages: С. 73–85
