scholarly journals Interreligious dialogue in local communities: Belgrade example

Sociologija ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-280
Author(s):  
Srdjan Barisic
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
Certain Answers

Within the interreligious dialogue research which was implemented between 2003 and 2005, there were seven religious representatives interviewed. All of the seven religious communities were settled in Belgrade. According to the certain answers given in the structured interviews, the author has tried, in this article, to make concise intersection of the interreligious relations within the capital of Serbia.

scholarly journals Diplomatic Interreligious Dialogue in the Framework of Interreligious Relations

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 129-140
Author(s):  
S. V. Melnik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
General Description ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
The Third ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
Low Efficiency

The article examines the practice of interaction between the heads of religious communities which is referred to as “diplomatic interreligious dialogue”. One of the most common forms of the manifestation of diplomatic dialogue is participation of religious leaders in a variety of interreligious summits and conferences. The first part of the article briefly describes main types of interreligious dialogue: polemical, cognitive, peacemaking and partner ship. The second part gives a general description of diplomatic interreligious dialogue that can be considered as one of a type of peacemaking dialogue. The third part of the article analyzes several critical arguments in relation to diplomatic dialogue: this form of communication cannot be called a dialogue in the true sense; predominance of secular discourse; low efficiency. The author has come to the conclusion that diplomatic dialogue occupies its niche in the system of interreligious relations. And it is incorrect to evaluate diplomatic dialogue from the point of view of other types of interreligious dialogue that pursue different goals and are based on different principles.

scholarly journals Interreligious Dialogue Groups Enabling Human Agency

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Roger Campdepadrós-Cullell ◽  
Miguel Ángel Pulido-Rodríguez ◽  
Jesús Marauri ◽  
Sandra Racionero-Plaza
Keyword(s):  
Human Agency ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Dialogic Learning ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Diversity Issues ◽  
Dialogue Groups ◽  
Depth Interviews

Evidence has shown that interreligious dialogue is one of the paths to build bridges among diverse cultural and religious communities that otherwise would be in conflict. Some literature reflects, from a normative standpoint, on how interreligious dialogue should be authentic and meaningful. However, there is scarce literature on what conditions contribute to this dialogue achieving its desirable goals. Thus, our aim was to examine such conditions and provide evidence of how interreligious dialogue enables human agency. By analyzing the activity of interreligious dialogue groups, we document the human agency they generate, and we gather evidence about the features of the conditions. For this purpose, we studied four interreligious dialogue groups, all affiliated with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) Association for Interreligious Dialogue (AUDIR), employing in-depth interviews and discussion groups. In these groups, which operate in diverse and multicultural neighborhoods, local actors and neighbors hold dialogues about diversity issues. In so doing, social coexistence, friendship ties, and advocacy initiatives arise. After analyzing the collected data, we conclude that for interreligious dialogue to result in positive and promising outputs, it must meet some principles of dialogic learning, namely equality of differences, egalitarian dialogue, cultural intelligence, solidarity, and transformation.

scholarly journals Zero Tolerance of Children’s Sexual Abuse from Interreligious Dialogue

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 549
Author(s):  
Cristina M. Pulido ◽  
Ana Vidu ◽  
Roseli Rodrigues de Mello ◽  
Esther Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Sexual Abuse Prevention ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

Child sexual abuse is a social problem that concerns our societies. The sustainable development goals have highlighted the eradication of child sexual abuse as one of the highest-priority goals of this century. Breaking the silence within religious communities is an essential step going forward. Therefore, establishing a dialogue between people of different religions is crucial to achieving this goal. The purpose of this article is to explore whether there are current interreligious dialogue initiatives based on scientific recommendations to prevent child sexual abuse. The method used herein is a qualitative document analysis of the selected initiatives. The results indicate that interreligious dialogue initiatives include scientific recommendations in their prevention programs. Furthermore, these successful initiatives connect religious values and the need to support victims and to break their silence. Based on these results, it can be concluded that interreligious initiatives for child sexual abuse prevention programs based on scientific evidence are crucial in order to eradicate child sexual abuse.

scholarly journals Gendered Paradigms For Understanding Of Common-Pool Resource With Special Reference To Keenjhar Lake, Sindh

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Aijaz Ahmed Sohag ◽  
Faraz Ahmed Wajidi
Keyword(s):  
Management Plan ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Local Perception ◽  
Management Of Resources ◽  
Conservation Values ◽  
Detrimental Impact

Keenjhar Lake, Pakistan is facing a potentially devastating ecological collapse, threatening the livelihood security of local communities. The purpose of this study was to investigate that how a more sustainable management plan can be forged through the integration of the local experiential knowledge and technocratic conservation values. The analysis gives particular emphasis to gender issues, given the unacknowledged but increasing responsibilities of community based organizations on women issues. Semi-structured interviews with local communities, communitybased organizations and government officials were undertaken to assess the various perceptions of resource use at Keenjhar Lake. The findings illustrate that conflicting understandings of ownership have a detrimental impact on the local perception on environment and prevalence of resource for their livelihood. However, there is an opportunity to foster new vistas of understanding which could be helpful in sustainability of management of resources.

Living with difference: Refugee education and school segregation processes in Greece

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (15) ◽  
pp. 3162-3177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pinelopi Vergou
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
School Segregation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

Global challenges and recent changes in conflict areas in the Middle East, Asia and Africa are reasons for the contemporary forced migration into European countries, which have become places of destination or transit posts for a great number of refugees. Cities have become the focus of the socio-spatial debate, as the main units for receiving refugees, either in state camps or in social housing in city centres. In this article, the focus is on the social-spatial configuration of refugee accommodation in local communities and the way these formations generate urban and school segregation. We argue that the placement of urban refugees in large, camp-like structures with low housing standards, mainly in areas outside cities or in rural areas, provides ground not only for social exclusion and ‘territorial stigmatisation’ but also for de facto school segregation. Furthermore, the attempts to house refugees in small cities, through United Nations and NGO-supplied houses, may also raise concerns about the way dispersal policies are implemented, with the distribution of refugee children in specific schools as a result of territorial social-spatial segregation. In both cases, the school segregation of refugees is connected not only with the implications of immigration and education policies but also with the social practices of local communities and the social-spatial characteristics that determine school education. The empirical material of this study is based on information on the socio-economic profiles of neighbourhoods at the census tract level and on qualitative research, through in-depth semi-structured interviews in two different cities in Greece.

scholarly journals Facilitating equal access to primary care for all: work experiences of health mediators in a primary health care model programme in Hungary

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cintia Katona ◽  
Éva Gutási ◽  
Magor Papp ◽  
Orsolya Varga ◽  
Karolina Kósa
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Programme Evaluation ◽  
Care Team ◽  
Primary Care Team ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Care Model ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Disadvantaged Population

Abstract Background A Primary Care Model Programme was implemented in Hungary between 2013 and 2017 in order to increase access of disadvantaged population groups to primary care and to offer new preventive services for all clients. In a country with single-handed practices, four group practices or GP clusters were created in the Programme. Six GPs comprised one cluster who together employed nonmedical health professionals and nonprofessional health mediators, the latter recruited from the serviced communities, many of them of Roma ethnicity. Health mediators were tasked by improving access of the local communities – including its vulnerable Roma members – to existing and new services. Health mediators were interviewed about their work experiences, motivation, and overall opinion as members of the clusters as part of the Programme evaluation. Methods As part of the Programme evaluation, structured interviews were conducted with all 40 health mediators employed at the time in the Programme. Interviews were transcribed and content analysis was carried out. Results Three themes emerged from the transcripts. The first focused on the health mediators’ personal characteristics such as motivation to join the Programme, the way their job increased their self-esteem, social status and health consciousness. Domains of the second theme of their work included importance of on-the-job training and of their insider knowledge of local communities, as well as their pride to have become members of the primary care team. The third theme covered overall functioning of the Programme of which they had mostly positive opinions, notwithstanding some criticism regarding procurement. Conclusions Health mediators had earlier worked in various European countries specifically to improve access of Roma ethnic groups to health services but the Hungarian Model Programme was globally the first in which health mediators as non-professional workers became equal members of the primary care team as employees. Their contribution and overwhelmingly positive experiences, along with their useful insights for improvement call for the establishment and funding of health mediator positions in primary care especially in areas with large numbers of disadvantaged Roma populations.

Educational perspective on interreligious relations among Muslims, Christians and Kaharingan adherents in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Qodir
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Central Kalimantan ◽  
Lay Members ◽  
Third Spaces ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
Research Assistants

Purpose This paper aims to investigate how do Muslims, Christians and Kaharingan adherents conduct interreligious relations among them in their everyday lives in Central Kalimantan; why do these religious communities observe interreligious relations as such; and what makes this model of interreligious relations. Design/methodology/approach The corpus for analysis comes from in-depth interviews with 20 persons, which took place between August and October in 2016 in Palangka Raya city and Kotawaringin Timur Regency in Central Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. The informants were selected from groups believed to be lay members and elites of Muslim, Christian and Kaharingan communities using snowball sampling technique facilitated by local research assistants. These informants are mainly mainstream Muslims, Christians and Kaharingan adherents. Findings The way to peaceful and co-existence life lived by religious communities in Indonesia is closely related to its rich treasures and precious tradition of cultural heritage: Indonesian communalism, Indonesian community spirit as seen in terms such as “tradisi hidup bersama,” “semangat kebersamaan” and “satu keluarga.” Instead of emphasizing the divisive differences among communities with various religious backgrounds, Muslims, Christians and Kaharingan adherents in Central Kalimantan create “third spaces,” common grounds shared by these religious communities at individual, institutional and societal levels. Originality/value Based on empirical findings, this research argues that the practices of peaceful and co-existence life lived by diverse religious communities in Indonesia relate to their particular social-cultural contexts of rich treasures and precious tradition of cultural heritage in the forms of Indonesian communalism and community spirit. Instead of emphasizing the divisive differences among themselves, various religious communities in Central Kalimantan create third spaces, common grounds between them and are shared by them at individual, institutional and societal levels.

scholarly journals Corporate volunteering in the large enterprises’ social mission – the case of a post-Soviet Russian industrial region

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-42
Author(s):  
Maria Pevnaya ◽  
Mariana Cernicova-Buca
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Opinion Poll ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
Corporate Volunteering ◽  
Large Enterprises

AbstractThe paper focuses on the main features of corporate volunteering in companies from the Sverdlovsk region (Russian Federation), with a population surpassing 4.5 million inhabitants. Corporate volunteering is analyzed in the context of the trend characteristic for the post-Soviet space. The article systematizes approaches to the definition and study of this phenomenon, implemented by researchers from different countries. The main goal of the article is to identify the specific features of corporate volunteering in a large Russian region, considered typical for industrial territories in post-Soviet areas, seen through the social value that local communities attribute to corporate volunteering. The paper is based on the results of a public opinion poll and structured interviews, carried out in the Sverdlovsk region, where there is a concentration of enterprises of “hard” industries. The responses obtained in the poll were further subjected to analysis using statistical methods. The data are supplemented with information collected through the qualitative interviews. Interviewed experts are the top managers of enterprises and the deputy directors for HR, GR, or social issues. The study shows that in Russian industrial cities, where large enterprises are the main employers for most residents, many questions on the implementation of social policy fall under the responsibility of these enterprises, and not of the local government. Researchers argue that corporate volunteering is not widespread in the large Russian regions. It most often develops within the framework of event planning and environmental projects, managed by enterprises in cooperation with social and cultural institutions of local communities and not with the non-profit sector. The traditions of the organization of mass social work formed during the socialist period are still deeply rooted in enterprises, and managers rarely identify volunteering as a new managerial tool, thus being untangled from the global trend of promoting corporate volunteerism as a means of building corporate culture.

scholarly journals What the Catholic Church Has Learnt from Interreligious Dialogue

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
40Th Anniversary ◽  
Boston College ◽  
Arab States ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
Jewish Learning ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
The Catholic Church

Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald, M.Afr. until recently served as the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in the Vatican. In February 2006 he was appointed by Pope Bendedict XVI to be the apostolic nuncio to Egypt and the Holy See's delegate to the League of Arab States. This address was delivered at the conference "In Our Time: Interreligious Relations in a Divided World," co-sponsored by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College and Brandeis University to mark the 40th anniversary of Nostra Aetate. It was given at Brandeis University on March 16, 2006. In it, Archbishop Fitzgerald first discusses theological advances arising from interreligious dialogue, focusing on the interrelatedness of the Trinity as the basis and model for dialogue. He then turns to consider the necessary conditions for dialogue, the varied content of dialogue, the conduct of dialogue in its multiplicity of forms, and the structures necessary for the continuity of dialogue.

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