The Impact of the Status of Religion in Contemporary Society upon Interreligious Learning
The author analyses the growing importance of IRL against the background of a changing European society. Based on sociological research, the traditional status of the Christian religion - and the monoreligious education that normally accompanies it - is seriously being challenged by th...
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doaj-dded849f57f1479487f81c8b7b3154092020-11-24T22:30:06ZdeuThe Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow PressThe Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II2083-80182391-65592011-09-0112215310.15633/pch.851The Impact of the Status of Religion in Contemporary Society upon Interreligious LearningHerman Lombaerts0Catholic University of Leuven, BelgiumThe author analyses the growing importance of IRL against the background of a changing European society. Based on sociological research, the traditional status of the Christian religion - and the monoreligious education that normally accompanies it - is seriously being challenged by the process of secularisation and the growing plurality or religious attitudes and beliefs among people in the West. Europe has become a complex network of in fl uences that constitute the actual symbolic fi eld employed by people in their search for truth. The interest for religion is still very much alive. People are not endlessly indifferent but still hope to fi nd (religious) truth and meaning, even if this process has become much more complex today. In this context, interreligious dialogue itself becomes a religious act. The status given by a religion to other religions is of crucial importance for its ultimate credibility. In this line of thought, religious education should transcend both a purely monoreligious approach and a purely objective-comparative (multireligious) approach, and instead should cultivate in the pupils - at the very borderlands of the different religious, cultural and geo-political territories - an attitude of practising interreligious dialogue as a religious event.http://czasopisma.upjp2.edu.pl/thepersonandthechallenges/article/view/851/744Status of religionlaïcité-secularityreligious indifferenceinterreligious dialogueinterreligious learning |
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The Impact of the Status of Religion in Contemporary Society upon Interreligious Learning |
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The Impact of the Status of Religion in Contemporary Society upon Interreligious Learning |
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The Impact of the Status of Religion in Contemporary Society upon Interreligious Learning |
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The Impact of the Status of Religion in Contemporary Society upon Interreligious Learning |
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The Impact of the Status of Religion in Contemporary Society upon Interreligious Learning |
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impact of the status of religion in contemporary society upon interreligious learning |
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The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow Press |
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The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II |
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2011-09-01 |
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The author analyses the growing importance of IRL against the background
of a changing European society. Based on sociological research, the traditional
status of the Christian religion - and the monoreligious education that normally
accompanies it - is seriously being challenged by the process of secularisation
and the growing plurality or religious attitudes and beliefs among people in the
West. Europe has become a complex network of in
fl
uences that constitute the
actual symbolic
fi
eld employed by people in their search for truth. The interest for
religion is still very much alive. People are not endlessly indifferent but still hope
to
fi
nd (religious) truth and meaning, even if this process has become much more
complex today. In this context, interreligious dialogue itself becomes a religious
act. The status given by a religion to other religions is of crucial importance for its
ultimate credibility. In this line of thought, religious education should transcend
both a purely monoreligious approach and a purely objective-comparative
(multireligious) approach, and instead should cultivate in the pupils - at the very
borderlands of the different religious, cultural and geo-political territories - an
attitude of practising interreligious dialogue as a religious event. |
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Status of religion laïcité-secularity religious indifference interreligious dialogue interreligious learning |
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http://czasopisma.upjp2.edu.pl/thepersonandthechallenges/article/view/851/744 |
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