Interreligious Dialogue Activities in East Germany: Low Levels of Activities within Official Organizational Structures
Abstract With regards to the religious situation, Germany still is a highly divided country. This draws our attention to the specific characteristics of IRD -activities in the eastern parts of Germany. Based on literature review and mapping exercises, we will argue, firstly, that the interreligious...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Опубликовано: |
2020
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Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Год: 2020, Том: 6, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 491-512 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Ostdeutschland
/ Межрелигиозный диалог
/ Секуляризм
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| Индексация IxTheo: | AB Философия религии AX Межрелигиозные отношения KBB Немецкоязычное пространство |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
meso-level
B Secularity B Plurality B Interreligious Dialogue B East Germany B Complexity |
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| Итог: | Abstract With regards to the religious situation, Germany still is a highly divided country. This draws our attention to the specific characteristics of IRD -activities in the eastern parts of Germany. Based on literature review and mapping exercises, we will argue, firstly, that the interreligious dialogue scene in East Germany is characterized by a comparatively low density of activities that are primarily embedded into major religious and state-related organizational structures. Secondly, we will discuss potential explanations of this lower dialogue level with regards to present-day socio-cultural differences and asymmetries between East and West Germany. Thirdly, we argue that the case of East Germany gives evidence to pay particular attention to numerically smaller religious groups within IRD as well as religiously unaffiliated parts of society. Consequently, we have to rethink the conceptualization of IRD in view of secularization as the dominant tendency in many European countries. |
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| ISSN: | 2364-2807 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30965/23642807-00602013 |
