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East in the West: Resolving a Spiritual Crisis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2014

Aloysius Pieris
Aloysius Pieris*
Affiliation:
Tulana Research Center Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
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The so-called “Oriental religions” dismissed only a century ago as primitive and pagan have registered in recent times a steep ascent to prominence not only in terms of their proven capacity to articulate the cultural ego of some of Asia's decolonized nations, but also as spiritual movements now seeping into Western cultures, threatening to be respectable alternatives to traditional Christianity. Disturbing news of Western youth streaming into Asia like a river flowing backward to its source is given wide coverage in the media.

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Editorial Essay
Information
Horizons , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , Fall 1988 , pp. 337 - 346
Copyright
Copyright © The College Theology Society 1988

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