Interreligious Dialogue as a Response to Processes of Secularization: A New Perspective on the World’s Parliament of Religions
Abstract This article proposes secularization theory as a tool to better understand the rationale of IRD -activities. To make this point, it starts with a review of present-day secularisation theories. On this basis, the article presents an analysis of the concept of the secular used in the context...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Year: 2020, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 513-532 |
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World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
/ Secularism
/ Interfaith dialogue
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AX Inter-religious relations |
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Religious Studies
B Europe B secularization theory B Interreligious Dialogue |
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| Summary: | Abstract This article proposes secularization theory as a tool to better understand the rationale of IRD -activities. To make this point, it starts with a review of present-day secularisation theories. On this basis, the article presents an analysis of the concept of the secular used in the context of the so-called ‘1893 – World’s Parliament of Religions’. In a final step, the author argues that IRD -activities have to be understood on the basis of an implicit juxtaposition of ‘the religious’ and ‘the secular’. They try to present a ‘religious voice’ as a response to a context perceived as being secular. |
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| ISSN: | 2364-2807 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30965/23642807-00602014 |