Interfaith Harmony through Education System of Religious Communities

IF 0.4 0 RELIGION Religion & Education Pub Date : 2021-12-08 DOI:10.1080/15507394.2021.2009305
Genti Kruja
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Abstract Public awareness on perceiving religious dialogue as a determinant of conflict prevention and social peace building in intercultural and multi-religious societies is increasing day by day. For a long time, the debate over religion was characterized by the idea that the increasing secularism of Western societies would lead to a gradual withdrawal of religion from public space. However, the last decade, returned religion in public discussion as a determinant of peace building. Regardless of the variety of how this discussion unfolds in European countries, the study of the impact of “religion” on intercultural dialogue and on tensions and social conflicts seems to be becoming increasingly important. Meanwhile education and religious education is an important element for shaping the critical skills of future citizens, for intercultural dialogue and for peace building as well. This research focuses on contribution of the different religious communities’ education system for promoting of the peace building in Albania multi-religious society. An explorative research methodology is implemented to achieve this aim through collecting primary and secondary data. Documents and studies in the field of religious education were collected from Central State Archive for the pre-communist period and data from the current schools of different religious communities in Albania were evaluated. The study brings to attention the Albanian case, where religious education had in the past and has currently a decisive impact on interfaith harmony. Religious communities have dozens of schools and four universities, where thousands of students’ study and their graduates constitute a vital part of the society. Education plays an essential role in intercultural understanding, in favor of coexistence and tolerance and the contribution of these schools to society is enormous as they are strengthening interfaith dialogue and its transmission to young people. In addition to the collaboration between the three theologies, cooperation is also increasing between universities, which despite being founded by religious communities, have in general and other secular departments of various academic fields.
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通过宗教社区教育体系实现宗教间和谐
在跨文化和多宗教社会中,将宗教对话视为预防冲突和社会和平建设的决定因素的公众意识日益增强。很长一段时间以来,关于宗教的争论的特点是,西方社会日益增长的世俗主义将导致宗教逐渐退出公共空间。然而,在过去的十年中,宗教作为和平建设的决定因素重新出现在公共讨论中。无论这种讨论在欧洲国家如何展开,研究“宗教”对跨文化对话、紧张局势和社会冲突的影响似乎正变得越来越重要。同时,教育和宗教教育是塑造未来公民的关键技能、促进文化间对话和建设和平的重要因素。本研究主要探讨不同宗教团体的教育体系对促进阿尔巴尼亚多宗教社会和平建设的贡献。探索性研究方法通过收集一手和二手数据来实现这一目标。从中央国家档案馆收集了共产主义前时期宗教教育领域的文件和研究,并对阿尔巴尼亚目前不同宗教社区的学校的数据进行了评估。这项研究提请注意阿尔巴尼亚的情况,在那里,宗教教育过去和现在都对不同信仰间的和谐产生了决定性的影响。宗教团体有几十所学校和四所大学,成千上万的学生和他们的毕业生构成了社会的重要组成部分。教育在促进共存和容忍的跨文化理解方面发挥着至关重要的作用,这些学校对社会的贡献是巨大的,因为它们正在加强宗教间对话并将其传递给年轻人。除了三种神学之间的合作之外,大学之间的合作也在增加,尽管这些大学是由宗教团体建立的,但总的来说,它们在各种学术领域都有其他世俗的部门。
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