RT Article
T1 Interreligious Dialogue Groups Enabling Human Agency
JF Religions
VO 12
IS 3
A1 Campdepadrós-Cullell, Roger
A2 Marauri, Jesús
A2 Pulido-Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel
A2 Racionero-Plaza, Sandra
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1753206472
AB Evidence has shown that interreligious dialogue is one of the paths to build bridges among diverse cultural and religious communities that otherwise would be in conflict. Some literature reflects, from a normative standpoint, on how interreligious dialogue should be authentic and meaningful. However, there is scarce literature on what conditions contribute to this dialogue achieving its desirable goals. Thus, our aim was to examine such conditions and provide evidence of how interreligious dialogue enables human agency. By analyzing the activity of interreligious dialogue groups, we document the human agency they generate, and we gather evidence about the features of the conditions. For this purpose, we studied four interreligious dialogue groups, all affiliated with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) Association for Interreligious Dialogue (AUDIR), employing in-depth interviews and discussion groups. In these groups, which operate in diverse and multicultural neighborhoods, local actors and neighbors hold dialogues about diversity issues. In so doing, social coexistence, friendship ties, and advocacy initiatives arise. After analyzing the collected data, we conclude that for interreligious dialogue to result in positive and promising outputs, it must meet some principles of dialogic learning, namely equality of differences, egalitarian dialogue, cultural intelligence, solidarity, and transformation.
K1 conditions
K1 dialogic learning
K1 egalitarian dialogue
K1 equality of differences
K1 Human Agency
K1 Interreligious Dialogue
K1 Principles
K1 Solidarity
K1 Transformation
DO 10.3390/rel12030189