scholarly journals Godsdiensgelykwaardigheid, -uniekheid en -verdraagsaamheid ’n Prinsipiële besinning (2)

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Van der Walt
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Previous Article ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
The Common

Religious equality, uniqueness and tolerance. A principial reflection (2) The previous article discussed three interrelated issues, viz. religious diversity, religious intolerance (and even violence) and the constitutional acknowledgement of religious freedom and its implications in practice. This article builds on insights gained in the previous article, but also tackles three other closely related new issues, viz. religious equality, religious uniqueness and religious tolerance. The main problems to be answered in this connection are the following: If religions are regarded as legally equal, does it also imply that every one of them can be regarded as of equal value or equally true? If Christians reject the principial equality of all religions, in what sense should Christianity be regarded as unique? What should be the ground(s) for and nature of religious tolerance in the light of the common phenomenon of religious intolerance, conflict and even violence?

scholarly journals Menumbuhkan nilai-nilai toleransi Dalam bingkai keragaman beragama

KALAM ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Ahmad Izzan
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Natural Process ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
The Will

The attitude of religious tolerance is an attitude that should be embedded in everyday life and is an empirical reality that must be created on the authority of human beings who have a different religion. Differences in religion is born of a natural process by the will of God. For that plurality is sunnatullah unavoidable. The purpose of this paper is to determine the depth of the concept of religious tolerance that is contained in the Qur'an. As for the verses studied is about pluralism relating to religious tolerance, respect for diversity Syari'ah every religious community, religious freedom, prohibition of intervention in the affairs of other religious beliefs, and cooperation among religions. In doing research on inter-religious tolerance can conclude several things, first to foster the values of tolerance within the framework of religious diversity in fostering religion in general is substantive adhesive used for the harmony of inter-religious relations. Second, in the realm of interpretation differences and diverse religions generate a view that shari'ah of the Prophet Muhammad. is a compilation of the Shari'ah-shari'ah of the Prophet before. Hence the presence of the Shari'ah Prophet Muhammad not deny them, but to collect it into a single solid in one religion (Deen al-Wahid).

Can Kami Promote Ethnic and Religious Tolerance?

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-132
Author(s):  
Naomi A. Moland
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Religious Others

Chapter 4, “Can Kami Promote Ethnic and Religious Tolerance?,” also supports the book’s first argument that multicultural education can inadvertently reproduce stereotypes. As Sesame Square’s creators celebrated ethnic diversity on the program—by showcasing ethnic clothing, languages, names, foods, and customs—they lapsed into stereotypes to represent different groups. Representing religious diversity raised further conundrums. Muslim symbols were seen as “anti-Christian,” and vice versa. Some creators feared that representing religious diversity was too contentious given the fact that religious intolerance was seen as the cause of escalating violence. For this same reason, however, other creators believed that highlighting religious integration and tolerance was more important than ever. Some creators believed that if children learned about ethnic and religious others, they would become more appreciative of diversity. Others, however, feared that highlighting differences could exacerbate divisions.

Beyond Religious Freedom

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Religious Difference ◽  
Power Difference ◽  
Ways Of Being

In recent years, North American and European nations have sought to legally remake religion in other countries through an unprecedented array of international initiatives. Policymakers have rallied around the notion that the fostering of religious freedom, interfaith dialogue, religious tolerance, and protections for religious minorities are the keys to combating persecution and discrimination. This book argues that these initiatives create the very social tensions and divisions they are meant to overcome. It looks at three critical channels of state-sponsored intervention: international religious freedom advocacy, development assistance and nation building, and international law. It shows how these initiatives make religious difference a matter of law, resulting in a divide that favors forms of religion authorized by those in power and excludes other ways of being and belonging. In exploring the dizzying power dynamics and blurred boundaries that characterize relations between “expert religion,” “governed religion,” and “lived religion,” the book charts new territory in the study of religion in global politics. The book provides new insights into today's most pressing dilemmas of power, difference, and governance.

scholarly journals A distinct negative leader propagation mode

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Scholten ◽  
B. M. Hare ◽  
J. Dwyer ◽  
N. Liu ◽  
C. Sterpka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radio Telescope ◽  
Electric Discharge ◽  
Radio Astronomy ◽  
Propagation Mode ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
High Charge ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Lightning Initiation ◽  
The Common

AbstractThe common phenomenon of lightning still harbors many secrets such as what are the conditions for lightning initiation and what is driving the discharge to propagate over several tens of kilometers through the atmosphere forming conducting ionized channels called leaders. Since lightning is an electric discharge phenomenon, there are positively and negatively charged leaders. In this work we report on measurements made with the LOFAR radio telescope, an instrument primarily build for radio-astronomy observations. It is observed that a negative leader rather suddenly changes, for a few milliseconds, into a mode where it radiates 100 times more VHF power than typical negative leaders after which it spawns a large number of more typical negative leaders. This mode occurs during the initial stage, soon after initiation, of all lightning flashes we have mapped (about 25). For some flashes this mode occurs also well after initiation and we show one case where it is triggered twice, some 100 ms apart. We postulate that this is indicative of a small (order of 5 km$$^2$$ 2 ) high charge pocket. Lightning thus appears to be initiated exclusively in the vicinity of such a small but dense charge pocket.

Solidarity, the Common Good and Social Justice in the Catholic Social Teaching within the Framework of Globalization

2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-31
Author(s):  
Rochus-Antonin (Roman) Gruijters
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Person ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Moral Perspective ◽  
The Common ◽  
Religious Problems ◽  
Globalized World

This article argues that when globalization is accompanied by such problems as religious intolerance, social injustice, poverty, disrespect for the human dignity and oppression, Catholics should address these challenges on a social and an academic level. The Catholic social tradition, as the single bearer of reflection on the meaning of the common good, envisions the idea of this common good in particularly useful ways by linking it to concepts of solidarity and justice. Furthermore, the Catholic Social Doctrine offers a vision of humanity which rejects intolerance and violence and proclaims that human life is sacred and that the dignity of the human person should be the foundation of a moral vision for society. In short, this article will expand how – from a Catholic intellectual and moral perspective on a globalized world – the concept of bonum commune can address contemporary social, cultural and religious problems.

scholarly journals Theorizing Desecularization of the Military: The United States and Israel

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yagil Levy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Chaplains ◽  
External Constraints ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Religious Services ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
The Military ◽  
Religious Actors

This article addresses scholarly deficiencies in identifying the conditions under which the desecularization of militaries takes place. To theorize this process, two militaries are studied, the United States and Israel. Arguably, six drivers sequentially generate the desecularization of the militaries: (1) Militaries largely mirror the growing influence of religion in the broader society. However, intramilitary drivers play their role in promoting/mitigating the extra-military mechanisms of desecularization. Thus, (2) organizational interests along with external constraints drive militaries to promote religious diversity, which may (3) lead to the empowerment of religious actors, and thereby to further desecularization through religious intolerance, and to (4) reliance on the spiritual and religious services provided by military chaplains, and jointly stimulate (5) the use of religion to motivate military sacrifice. By religiously increasing the symbolic value of military sacrifice, (6) religiosity becomes more naturally associated with good soldiering, thereby reshaping intramilitary hierarchies and, hence, further triggering desecularization.

scholarly journals Framework of communication needed to protect against human rights violations of individuals who exercise their right to religious freedom in minority religions

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanus P. Pretorius
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
World Peace ◽  
Special Rapporteur ◽  
International Level ◽  
Minority Religions ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

The right to religious freedom is generally believed to be the solution to religious intolerance and discrimination and to ensure world peace amongst world citizens. On an international level, the United Nations, through the appointment of a special rapporteur for freedom of religion and belief, has introduced a tool to monitor violations of this right. This tool is known as �the framework of communications� and is focused mainly on the relationship between governments and religions. Unfortunately, religion is not excluded from the violation of human rights within its own ranks. This article pointed out that however pure the intention of freedom of religion, no real measures are in place to address violations of human rights in minority religions. Therefore, a tool is needed to investigate and address alleged violations within minority religions.

Non-random behavior in sums of modular symbols

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Alex Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Eisenstein Series ◽  
Spectral Decomposition ◽  
Fourier Coefficients ◽  
Dirichlet Character ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
Modular Symbols ◽  
Dirichlet Characters ◽  
Random Behavior ◽  
The Common ◽  
Automorphic Functions

We give explicit expressions for the Fourier coefficients of Eisenstein series twisted by Dirichlet characters and modular symbols on [Formula: see text] in the case where [Formula: see text] is prime and equal to the conductor of the Dirichlet character. We obtain these expressions by computing the spectral decomposition of automorphic functions closely related to these Eisenstein series. As an application, we then evaluate certain sums of modular symbols in a way which parallels past work of Goldfeld, O’Sullivan, Petridis, and Risager. In one case we find less cancelation in this sum than would be predicted by the common phenomenon of “square root cancelation”, while in another case we find more cancelation.

From Imago Dei to Mutual Recognition: The Evolution of the Concept of Human Dignity in the Light of the Defence of Religious Freedom

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Dellavalle
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
The Self ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Negative Freedom ◽  
Alternative Proposal

Within the Western tradition the concept of human dignity is related to the idea of human beings as ‘imagines Dei’. Yet this connection does not guarantee any suitable basis for the principle of the defence of religious freedom. Therefore, modern rationalism developed an alternative proposal, centred on the notion of religious tolerance. This approach, however, proves to be as inadequate as the belief-based vision in order to provide for a convincing foundation of a concept of religious freedom understood not only as a ‘negative freedom’ but as an essential element of the self-realization of humans. To overcome the deficits of both approaches, a third understanding is explored in which the experience of faith is recognized as an essential enrichment of social life and ‘tolerance’ is substituted by ‘mutual recognition’, paving the way to a positive acknowledgement of difference.

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