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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Main Author: Herman Lombaerts
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow Press 2011-09-01
Series: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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Online Access:http://czasopisma.upjp2.edu.pl/thepersonandthechallenges/article/view/851/744
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spelling 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
The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II
Status of religion
laïcité-secularity
religious indifference
interreligious dialogue
interreligious learning
author_facet Herman Lombaerts
author_sort Herman Lombaerts
title The Impact of the Status of Religion in Contemporary Society upon Interreligious Learning
title_short The Impact of the Status of Religion in Contemporary Society upon Interreligious Learning
title_full The Impact of the Status of Religion in Contemporary Society upon Interreligious Learning
title_fullStr The Impact of the Status of Religion in Contemporary Society upon Interreligious Learning
title_full_unstemmed The Impact of the Status of Religion in Contemporary Society upon Interreligious Learning
title_sort impact of the status of religion in contemporary society upon interreligious learning
publisher The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow Press
series The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II
issn 2083-8018
2391-6559
publishDate 2011-09-01
description 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.
topic Status of religion
laïcité-secularity
religious indifference
interreligious dialogue
interreligious learning
url http://czasopisma.upjp2.edu.pl/thepersonandthechallenges/article/view/851/744
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