Nurturing the Culture of Dialogue Gjorgjevski, Gjoko
Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (Online),
12/2020, Letnik:
6, Številka:
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The aim of this paper is to describe the relations between the religious communities in the Republic of North Macedonia. This paper will examine the history of each of the most numerous ...traditional religious communities in the country, the history of the dialogue between them and its present situation, the communication and mutual influences, as well as the attempts to overcome disagreements and misunderstandings. It is an overview of the most important activities of the dialogues and challenges in relation to the events and changes in the country.
This paper examines works in two of the major streams of thought in contemporary Continental philosophy of religion and theology—theopoetics and political theology—that loosely hang together by two ...shared threads: philosopher‐cum‐(radical)theologian John D. Caputo and the question of how to live well with the Other. After examining each book in turn, I weave their thoughts together showing how both theopoetics and radical political theology have the same shared aim. This aim is, namely, to deconstruct harmful and outdated narratives about God that have created unjust political systems and relations with other religions, to in turn continually ‘make‐true’ the democracy to‐come.
The article analyzed the last sociological surveys on religious life in Europe. The attention on the large scale was given to the problems of the perceiving by the Europeans of their own religious ...identity, the significance of the faith in the life of the secular society and its citizens. The author concluded that the religious identity in the context of the migration, social and political crisis preserved its value in the social and political life. The identity becomes the important evidence of the societal attempts to find the answers on the challenges of the modernity
The article analyzed the basic features of the transformation of the religious policy of the European leaders in 2010s on the examples of the France and Germany. The main elements of such policy are ...the appeal to the subject of the meaning of the Christianity for the culture and identity of the country, the attention to the cooperation with the religious associations, to the defining of the new tendencies on the controlling of the religious activities. In the frames of the political system that not provided the wide participation of the religious institutions in public policy that turn of European leaders is a breakthrough and new period of the religious involvement (mainly Christianity) in the shaping of the European culture and the common European space
The aim of this paper is to present the internal structure of the Readiness to Engage in Interreligious Dialogue Test (REIDT). The definition of a dialogue in a democratic society forms the ...theoretical framework for the test construction. The readiness to engage in interreligious dialogue was defined as a mental readiness to exchange views on religious topics, based on a symmetrical exchange of thoughts, aimed at creation of mutual understanding by people with different religious affiliations, involved in cooperation to meet this objective. The REIDT consists of 36 items, factor analysis revealed four dimensions of interreligious dialogue: readiness to exchange views on religious topics, readiness to seek mutual understanding, internal barriers for the symmetry of a dialogue, and readiness to communicate with representatives of other religions. The paper includes a brief description of the stages of work on the structure of the method and the reliability and validity indicators.
Interreligious Dialogues in Switzerland Schmid, Hansjörg
Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (Online),
12/2020, Letnik:
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Due to the federal structure of Switzerland, interreligious activities are also strongly influenced by cantonal contexts. Based on published material as well as on semi-directive interviews ...with key protagonists, the article analyses three cases of interreligious dialogue - two cantonal cases from the German-, or respectively French-speaking part of the country and the more general case of a women's network. In the cantonal cases, interreligious dialogue is strongly linked to state-religion relation and serves as a tool for inclusion of new religious communities and for social cohesion. In each of the two cases, there are specific forms and organisational structures of dialogue. In contrast to these examples, the third case is more independent of political interests and often adopts a critical stance. Thus two types of interreligious discourse and relationship with the state can be identified which can also be seen as complementary: either a more critical voice keeping distance from power, or a collaboration with political structures strengthening the religious communities' influence within the system.
The paper examines the Dialogue
written by Nicolaus Cusanus in 1453 to settle disputes arising from events that triggered religious unrest, such as the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, the ...invasion and massacre of the Turks led by Sultan Mehmed II and the defeat of the Christians. Following the disintegration of medieval Christianity, Cusanus, instead of promoting a crusade, as Cardinal Bessarione did, proposed a more suitable way to make the major exponents of different religions interact in a fruitful dialogue, hoping for the peace of a single universal faith. The arguments through which Cusanus claimed the concept of a concordance and pacification of the faith reveal the originality and topicality of the message communicated by the humanist, founded on the doctrine of peace in the faith, overcoming inter-confessional barriers and religious divergences.
The author contrasts the divergences, massacres and wars with a doctrinal comparison among different religions through dialogue. The paper invites reflection upon the religious struggles that still spread discord in the world.
Natural law and human rights González García, Alexander
Advocatus (Barranquilla. Universidad Libre. : En línea),
03/2021, Letnik:
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This article studies the proposal of the Catholic Church towards a common base for interreligious dialogue. For the Church, dialogue with other religions can not be based on the commandments of love, ...as Muslim leaders suggest in their document "A Common Word" (2007), because it is an exclusive idea between Christians and Muslims; that is why the Church presents in several documents the idea of the natural law as a common pillar for all people, believers and non-believers, since God has provided humanity with reason, and this can guide human beings towards common benefit. This article analyzes the natural law as a valid means for interreligious relations.
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Empirical research on the practice of interreligious dialogue delivers inspiring results for a practical-theological reflection. The contribution thus discusses the question of what ...theological and social science research can learn from each other. The author presents four exemplary theses on the Catholic understanding of the nature, aims and methods of interreligious dialogue, and puts them into a mutual dialogue with the empirical results of this study. The results demonstrate that interreligious dialogue only exists within different social and political contexts that should be recognised theologically as "incarnated" forms of dialogue. The diverse social and political functions of interreligious dialogue can be interpreted as dimensions of the evangelizing mission of the Church. In turn, social science research on interreligious dialogue should take "inside" dimensions into academic consideration such as aspects of theological self-understanding, the question of truth or the missionary dimension of interreligious dialogue.
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