scholarly journals Interreligious dialogue and socio-religious dialogue in today's society

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 754-758
Author(s):  
George Daniel Petrov ◽  
Victor Marius Pleșa
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
Violent Acts

Today's society needs to organise interreligious and socio-religious dialogues in order manage to work effectively for finding a form of concord between peoples, so that no more unfortunate events such as terrorist attacks and other violent acts occur. One of the solutions is given by the interreligious dialogue carried out worldwide, a dialogue from which the participants, although having different traditions and cultures, can draw points of common interest, so that peace becomes a natural conclusion of the latter.

Tea Ceremony as a Space for Interreligious Dialogue

Exchange ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-142
Author(s):  
Naoko Frances Hioki
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
Jesuit Missionaries ◽  
Tea Ceremony ◽  
Religious Differences ◽  
The Way

Abstract This paper explores the potential of Japanese tea ceremony to be an aesthetic space for inter-religious dialogue. Through a study of historical encounters that took place between European Jesuit missionaries and Japanese tea masters in the late 16th century, this paper elucidates the missionaries’ experiences of tea ceremonies and discusses the validity and limitation of a tea house as a space for cross-cultural and interreligious dialogue. The fruit of tea ceremony in terms of interreligious dialogue includes a shared sense of aesthetic communion that is attained through communal enjoyment of the beauty of nature and drinking a cup of tea in an isolated tea house, where guests are invited to cast away worries of everyday business, as well as their social and religious differences; whereas its limitation pertains to marked indifference toward verbal communication that is characteristic to the way of tea, and thus the historical missionaries’ experience was limited to aesthetic paradigm and did not lead to logical understanding of doctrinal differences between Buddhists and Christians.

New type of attacks calls for UK strategy revision

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Type ◽  
Violent Acts

Subject Counterterrorism policies. Significance The United Kingdom has been subjected to four deadly terrorist attacks in the first half of 2017. A car attack in Westminster in March left six people dead, an explosion at a concert in Manchester left 22 dead, while two more vehicular attacks in June left eight people dead in London Bridge and one person dead in Finsbury Park, London. This spike in successful attacks raises questions about the efficacy of the United Kingdom’s preventive measures against this type of extremism. Impacts ‘Local’ extremism will remain a threat while the strategies designed to reduce it are flawed. Cooperation with social media organisations could limit opportunities for like-minded extremists to plot violent acts. A greater focus on improving timely surveillance techniques may reduce the need for mass arrests following an attack.

scholarly journals Traditional Churches of Ukraine in the System of International Interreligious Dialogue

2009 ◽  
pp. 117-131
Author(s):  
Liudmyla O. Fylypovych
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Spiritual Leaders ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
International Activity ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
The Church

International inter-religious dialogue is one of the directions of modern foreign policy of any church. Until recently, the latter was determined by narrow church interests. Due to the changes taking place in the religious sphere, in particular its globalization, which itself responds to the challenges of today, the field of external interests of the church extends to single-religious (say, the danger of non-religious proselytism) or even all-religious (for example, shared threat) clean water or planetary warming). Therefore, the list of tasks defined as elements of the church's international activity includes not only spiritual guardianship and protection of their believers abroad, missionary work among unbelievers and non-believers, pastoral visits to the diaspora, but also friendly communication with the brotherly churches, contacts with theologians spiritual leaders of other religions, consultations with prominent statesmen and public figures, scholars, politicians, representation in international interreligious associations, etc.

INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE AS A MEDIUM OF CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC DA’WAH

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Jaffary Awang ◽  
Umar Faruk ◽  
Hasnan Bin Kasan
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Interfaith Dialogue ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
The Masses

Abstract. Interfaith dialogue is a form of discussion and information exchange between the devotees of different religions, while da’wah is a form of preaching to Islam. In the context of opportunity, Muslims should accept the challenge of participation in interfaith dialogue. So thus preparation and knowledge about da’wah and interreligious dialogue has become a necessity before involving in interfaith dialogue. Based on the nature of inter-religious dialogue that emphasizes on openness, willingness to listen to different views and based on knowledge, then this method should be taken seriously by the Muslim in the context of contemperory da’wah to propagate Islam to the masses. Finally this paper concluded interfaith dialogue in Malaysia has a great potential and in the growing interest among the Muslim community in particular. Abstrak. Dialog antaragama adalah bentuk diskusi dan pertukaran informasi antara para pemeluk agama yang berbeda, sementara dakwah adalah bentuk dakwah kepada Islam. Dalam konteks kesempatan, umat Islam harus menerima tantangan partisipasi dalam dialog antaragama. Jadi persiapan dan pengetahuan dakwah dan dialog antaragama telah menjadi kebutuhan sebelum terlibat dalam dialog antaragama. Berdasarkan pada sifat dialog antar agama yang menekankan pada keterbukaan, kesediaan untuk mendengarkan pandangan yang berbeda dan berdasarkan pada pengetahuan, maka metode ini harus ditanggapi dengan serius oleh Muslim dalam konteks kontekstualisasi dakwah untuk menyebarkan Islam kepada massa. Akhirnya makalah ini menyimpulkan dialog antaragama di Malaysia memiliki potensi besar dan dalam minat yang tumbuh di kalangan komunitas Muslim pada khususnya. 

scholarly journals Interreligious dialogue in the Polish lands in the 18th century

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 397-412
Author(s):  
Roman Marcinkowski
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Rabbinic Judaism ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
History Of

Abstract: Dov Ber of Bolechov (1723-1805), Jewish wine merchant and polyglot, known for his dispute with the Frankists in Lwów (Lemberg) in 1759, left the Hebrew manuscripts of his two main works: זכרונות ר׳ דוב מבולחוב (The Memoirs of Dov Ber of Bolechov) and iדברי בינה   (Understanding Words). In the former work he describes his life story and the story of his family but also the history of Jews in Eastern Galicia, writing also about important events from the history of Poland, and his description as an outside observer seems to be reliable. In the latter work Dov Ber reveals his attitude towards other religions, especially towards Christianity, and the defence of Rabbinic Judaism and its main book Talmud, or more precisely, of the complete reliability of the Oral Torah, is the leitmotif of Diwre binah. Can we speak of religious dialogue in the 18th century?             The purpose of the paper is to present Christian-Jewish relations in the Polish lands, in particular in Eastern Galicia in the 18th century from a Jewish perspective in the description of Dov Ber of Bolechov.    

scholarly journals Design Consideration for Inter-Religious Dialogue in Malaysia: The Incorporation of Contact Theory

Sains Insani ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
Arfah Ab Majid
Keyword(s):  
Case Study Research ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Cooperative Interaction ◽  
Contact Theory ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
Dialogue Design ◽  
Cross Case Analysis

Inter-religious dialogue has been implemented in Malaysia by various organizations, be it Muslim’s or Non-Muslim’s organizations as early as 1950s.Often being carried out in the format of intellectual discourse and forum, its accessibility to the non-academician, non-scholars and non-elite is uncertain.If the inter-religious dialogue programs could not reach the grassroots, its effectiveness in addressing inter-religious issues that affected the grassroots is also doubtful.International dialogue practitioners has begun to include number of theories in their dialogue designs to reach out broader range of community.One of the theories is Contact Theory proposed by Gordon Allport (1959) aims at addressing in-group/out-group bias.Therefore, this study attempts to examine the application of Contact Theory in two models of inter-religious dialogue in Malaysia (i.e. Institut Kefahaman Islam Malaysia (IKIM) and Inter-faith Spiritual Fellowship (INSaF)).Case study research design was employed in order to identify the design of interreligious dialogue and the presence of Contact Theory within the two models.Data obtained through interviews and document analysis were than analysed using within-case and cross-case analysis (Miles & Huberman, 1994).The finding suggest that IKIM’s and INSaF’s inter-religious dialogue models did not include any special session that allowed a real dialogue or cooperative interaction (one of important elements in Contact Theory) to take place among the participants.Without cooperative interaction among the participants, it would be difficult for these two models to reap the benefit of Contact Theory.Future research should focus on developing inter-religious dialogue design that is more appropriate for the grassroots with the inclusion of Contact Theory.

scholarly journals INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE WITHIN THE HARE KRISHNA MANDIR COMMUNITY YOGYAKARTA

Al-Albab ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanny Suitela
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
International Society ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Know How ◽  
Religious People ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
Hare Krishna ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Plural Society ◽  
Community Relationship

This paper aims to know how inter-religious dialogue was grasped by Hare Krishna Mandir community in Jogjakarta. Hare Krishna Mandir is one of Hindus community boarding schools (Asram) which being in Indonesia beneath of the umbrella of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). Results show that core of tenet of Hare Krishna Mandir community emphasizes on the development of individual knowledge and spirituality of student as a Hindus. Somehow, the community is being aware on pluralism context of Indonesia, therefore it also gives special attention on its community relationship to the others who live surround them. The community claims the necessity to develop interreligious dialogue as basic daily approach of communication with the others. Sunday Face comprises of the embodiment of that understanding. It is a program heading on Sunday, every week, involving many participants from different backgrounds. They gather together, they talk and share some relevant issues, and they learn from one and another point of views on solution as well as contribution to those. The program obviously contributes to sustaining religious harmony in Jogjakarta, and of course it gives better understanding for Indonesian people on the importance of inter-religious dialogue in a plural society of Indonesia. In addition to, it also contributes to shape open minded, necessity to hear, to learn, and to respect one and others among not only religious people, also society at all. Key words: Hare Krishna Mandir, interreligious dialogue, Sunday Face

scholarly journals Membingkai Ruang Dialog Beragama: Belajar dari Hans Kung dan Seyyed Hossein Nasr

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Marz Wera
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Global Ethics ◽  
Hans Küng ◽  
Perennial Philosophy ◽  
Religious Plurality ◽  
Religious Dialogue

ABSTRACT: Religious pluralism in Indonesia is currently in a state of confusion. The reality of religious diversity is insulated by misguided and superficial interpretations. The space for religious dialogue is entangled by group selfishness, squeezed by religious formalism, as well as claims of theological truth. The approach of dialogue, both exclusivism and inclusivism and even pluralism, has not been able to knit religious plurality. Traditions, symbols, rituals, ethical dimensions and the universal core in religions as a precondition of dialogue are actually a ignored. Such pluralism leads to the relativism of the teachings of religions. In that context, the author offers two approach concepts as a new way of interreligious dialogue. '' Global Ethics '' by Hans Kg and '' Perennial Philosophy '' by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. These two concepts provide an understanding of the unique and unique dimensions of religions that must be observed and should not be ignored. KEYWORDS: global ethics, Perennial Philosophy, traditions, dialogue, exclucivism, inclusivism, pluralism

The Necessities and Limitations of Inter-Religious Dialogue

Exchange ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kizito Chinedu Nweke
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Religious Truth ◽  
Religious Dialogue

Inter-religious dialogue has been conceived as an antidote to all the problems of religious tensions, attracting resources and expectations.1 However, it has come short of these expectations. In fact, religious tensions are on the increase, despite increased inter-religious encounters.2 Hence, the research question: what exactly are our expectations of inter-religious dialogue and what are its limits? This work distilled out in two areas the necessities and limitations of inter-religious dialogue: liberalism in religion, and concatenation or practicalisation of inter-religious dialogue. It argues for caution on issues of religious truth, relativistic pluralism, equality / sameness of religions, etc. Inter-religious dialogue would perhaps have more success if not for the problems of inner strife and contradictions of theological perspectives. It proffered a solution in the ‘model of mutual enrichment’. This model checks our expectations of interreligious dialogue.

scholarly journals Why Is There So Little Shia–Sunni Dialogue? Understanding the Deficit of Intra-Muslim Dialogue and Interreligious Peacemaking †

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 567
Author(s):  
Krause ◽  
Svensson ◽  
Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Data Bases ◽  
The Third ◽  
Organized Violence ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
Institutional Initiatives ◽  
Research Endeavor ◽  
Existing Data

Despite a growth in fatalities resulting from organized violence with Shia–Sunni dimensions over the last two decades, in this study, we show, using existing data-bases on interreligious dialogue and peacemaking, that only less than two percent of the interreligious peacemaking organizations in the world are specialized in dialogue between Shias and Sunnis. Why is there so little institutionalized Shia–Sunni dialogue occurring when the need for such dialogue is evident? This study identifies and discusses this lack of institutional initiatives designed to prevent violence, manage conflicts and facilitate processes of intra-Muslim de-sectarianization. We discuss what we see as the three seemingly most obvious explanations—(1) the dismissal of the relevance of a Shia–Sunni cleavage, (2) the inappropriateness of the interreligious dialogue concept in the Muslim context, and (3) the substitution of institutional interreligious dialogue by other channels. Although we suggest that the third is the most potent explanation to pursue, we do not aim to provide a comprehensive explanation for the Shia–Sunni religious dialogue deficit. Instead, our aspiration is mainly to present and substantiate a puzzle that has not been identified or discussed in previous research. This can set an agenda for a reinvigorated research endeavor into the contemporary challenges for interreligious peacemaking.

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