ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the option of dialogue for the current religious climate within the Amasiri. It stimulates a deeper understanding of the dynamic of dialogue and also shows the benefits and challenges of interacting, both as individuals and communities with different religious traditions. The chapter includes a discussion and comparative study of religious beliefs and possibilities of agreement and community. Religions, according to Volter Kuester, are pluralistic complexes, which are partly related to each other or influence each other. The Christianity that reached indigenous clans like Amasiri had undergone several stages of reorganisation. Andrew Walls argues that Christianity in some ways has been the most syncretistic of the great faiths. Indigenous communities like Amasiri, together with its cultures and religions, represented for many of them the kingdom of Satan, fit only to be overthrown and brought to subjection to the superior power of the Cross of Jesus.
