INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

A Possible Response to Ram Janmabhumi Mandir-Babri Masjid Issue

Authors

  • Ronald Tellis Lateran University

Keywords:

INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE, Ram Janmabhumi, Mandir-Babri Masjid

Abstract

The overall view of Indian society is multi-religious, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-linguistic. Hindus of different traditions, Buddhists and Jains of various schools, Muslims of more than one lineage, Christians of many Churches, different groups of Sikhs and Zoroastrians and several tribal communities live in India side by side, and have done so for many centuries. Of these, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism were born and developed in India. There is a strong belief that Christianity arrived in India as early as 52 AD, and that Islam was brought to India towards the end of the seventh century AD. According to the official decennial census of 2001, there were about 827.6 million Hindus (80.5%), 138.2 million Muslims

Author Biography

Ronald Tellis, Lateran University

Fr. Ronald Tellis was born in 1970 and ordained priest for the diocese of Jhansi in 1997. He has worked as vice rector and rector of diocesan seminary. He has been lecturer in moral theology at St. Joseph’s Regional Seminary, Allahabad since July 2010. Email: rontellis@yahoo.com

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Published

2011-12-31

How to Cite

Tellis, R. (2011). INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE: A Possible Response to Ram Janmabhumi Mandir-Babri Masjid Issue. Asian Horizons, 5(04), 819–823. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/2806

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New Scholars