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- Title
The Role of Interreligious and Interfaith Dialogue in the Post-Secular World.
- Authors
Popovska, Biljana; Ristoska, Zhanet; Payet, Pablo
- Abstract
Today, western liberal democratic societies are secular, or in other words, religion is set apart from the state. However, the beginning of the 21st century has seen a re-politicizing of the religion. This paper argues that religion plays an important role in current global politics and events. Moreover, it has been used as tool to recruit masses for a wrong cause. Hence, Interreligious and interfaith dialog can play a role of catalysts and a future trend in cultural diplomacy. The paper provides definitions of a secular and post secular society. Then, it discusses the general concept of dialogue and explores it from an interreligious and interfaith point of view as a way to mitigate the role religion has undertaken. Finally, it provides examples of what European Union has been doing in that respect.
- Subjects
INTERFAITH dialogue; DEMOCRACY &; religion; CULTURAL diplomacy; EUROPEAN Union; INTERFAITH relations
- Publication
Academicus, 2017, Issue 16, p33
- ISSN
2079-3715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7336/academicus.2017.16.02