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Interreligious Friendship: Symbiosis of Human Relationship vis-à-vis Religious Differences—A Christian Encounter with Two African Traditional Religionists

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Interreligious Friendship after Nostra Aetate

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This article provides a reflection on the dialogic imperative of my encounter with two interlocutors from African Traditional Religious persuasion. One of the encounters happened in my early childhood, while the second took place when I was in my late twenties. The full import and lessons from those encounters were not appropriately unpacked and appreciated until decades after the encounters.

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  1. Jacques Dupuis, Christianity and the Religions: From Confrontation to Dialogue, trans. Phillip Berryman (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2002 ), 255.

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  2. Elochukwu E. Uzukwu, “Missiology Today: The African Situation,” in Religion and African Culture: Inculturation—A Nigerian Perspective, ed. Elochukwu E. Uzukwu ( Enugu: SNAAP Press, 1988 ), 146.

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© 2015 James L. Fredericks and Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier

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Iwuchukwu, M.C. (2015). Interreligious Friendship: Symbiosis of Human Relationship vis-à-vis Religious Differences—A Christian Encounter with Two African Traditional Religionists. In: Fredericks, J.L., Tiemeier, T.S. (eds) Interreligious Friendship after Nostra Aetate. Interreligious Studies in Theory and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472113_17

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