EAST IS EAST
Keywords:
religions, Asian and Roman mentalitiesAbstract
“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” so goes the well known opening line of “The Ballad of East and West,” by Rudyard Kipling. The purpose of this essay is to try to understand the difference of perspective and approach towards other religions, between the Asian and Roman mentalities, in their broad contours. The meetings organized by the Vatican in Assisi may be studied as symbolic of the problem.
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