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INTER-CONFESSIONAL DIALOGUE IN POSTSECULAR SOCIETY
INTER-CONFESSIONAL DIALOGUE IN POSTSECULAR SOCIETY

Author(s): Dalia Marija Stančienė
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Islam studies, Comparative Studies of Religion, Politics and society, Evaluation research, Sociology of Religion, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Latvijas Universitātes Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūts
Keywords: inter-confessional dialogue; post-secular society; Christianity; Islam; Human Fraternity;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses Inter-Confessional Dialogue in post-secular society. Interreligious dialogue helps to control the situation and reduce religious confrontation during inter-confessional disagreements, acts of terrorism, war in Syria and Libya, Iraq and Yemen, as well as Islamist terrorist attacks. The article draws attention to the Paris Statement A Europe We Can Believe In signed by the European intellectuals in Paris, the purpose of which is to help people understand a political and religious situation in post-secular society intellectually and spiritually. Another important aspect of analysing cultural changes in the world is related to internal destructive processes that destroy the cultural tradition. The secularization process has affected not only the West, but also the Islamic cultural sphere where there is a fight between the fanatical absolutism and a tolerant rationality, the cultural spheres of Hinduism and Buddhism, which in their fight against Western rationality and the Christian faith try to preserve their own identity.

  • Issue Year: XXV/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 10-24
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English