What is it about?
It is about the conception of interreligious dialogue as an antidote to all the problems of religious tensions and conflicts in the world. This work addresses two major areas of interreligious dialogue: Liberalism in religion and the concatenation of the religious, political and social aspects of the society. Its aim is to analyze interreligious dialogue in these two major areas in order to project its necessities and its limitations.
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Why is it important?
Institutions, religious or political, all support and put in resources in the conviction and expectation that interreligious dialogue would do the magic and afford the world peace. However, interreligious dialogue has come short on these expectations. In fact, religious tensions are on the increase, despite the increased interreligious encounters. It is therefore important to ask whether interreligious dialogue is necessary, and to be aware of its limitations.
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It was interesting to address a phenomenon that has been endorsed as basic for the religious world in the 21st century. Dialogue has become a dogmatistic ideal in religions. I hope that students and teachers would re-engage everything we have supposed and taken for granted, in order to sustain religions and their studies.
kizito Nweke
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This page is a summary of: The Necessities and Limitations of Inter-Religious Dialogue, Exchange, March 2017, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/1572543x-12341435.
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