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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Religious pluralism"”.
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Social and Emotional Learning: An Argument for Religious Pluralism
… intended outcomes for students and society, religious pluralism must be reflected in student instruction. SEL involves the use of evidence-based practices to provide opportunities to develop competencies related to self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and …
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Religious pluralism and conflict as issues in religious education in Uganda
… complications raised in teaching a confessional Religious Education in a multi-religious context pertaining in Ugandan religiously founded public schools, government and private founded schools. The thesis contends that the introduction of Islam, Anglican and Roman Catholic Christian religious …
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Religious Pluralism and the Catholic Church: Lonergan's Method and the Jacques Dupuis Controversy
… over his book, Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism. The application of Lonergan's method reveals the potential for the resolution of the issues presented by Dupuis in the area of developing a Catholic theology of pluralism as well as the tension between the Catholic Magisterium …
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A Critical Evaluation of John Hick's Religious Pluralism in Light of His Eschatological Model
… philosophy of John Hick, who is famous for his religious pluralism, has received vigorous study in terms of its epistemology, authority, the concept of God, and Christology. However, less attention has been given to his pareschatology. As explained below, initial investigation shows that there …
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State, religion, and the public good: An examination of Nurcholish Madjid in constructing civil religious pluralism as political philosophy
… development of the modern nation-state, civil religious pluralism is presented as an important contribution to political philosophy. If the administration of justice is the chief end of the democratic state, then the entire society, including religious communities, is implicitly responsible for …
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A Contextual Application of The Unicity and Universality of Christ in the Context of Religious Pluralism: A Lubacian Hermeneutic.
This thesis will argue that when it comes to the important question of the relationship between the church and those who are not part of it, de Lubac’s response to the question is novel. His writings on the social dimension of dogma are the key to opening up a dialogue with non-Christian religions. …
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Proclaiming Christ in a pluralistic context
… dissertation focuses on the understanding of religious pluralism from the perspective of Catholic theology starting from the positions taken at the Second Vatican Council and how they were received and developed in post-Conciliar theology. The dissertation seeks to understand the uniqueness …
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Religion and economic growth : an analysis at the city level.
This paper looks at the effect of religious beliefs on economic growth using a Brazilian city-level survey data as opposed to the more popular country-level data, thus separating the effect from different social and historical context. The hypothesis is that certain religious beliefs stimulate …
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Siyakholwa: a study in religion, education and media in South Africa
… thesis discusses how the constitutional ideal of religious pluralism is mediated through public service television. The relationships among the state, religion, public education and public service broadcasting in the light of post-apartheid policy are examined. By analysing national policy for …
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Paradoxical Religious Posture: Occupying the Liminal Space
… the need for attention to the multiplicity of religious experience present in the 21st Century landscape. Identifying the failures of religious pluralism to adequately respond to multiplicity will help us to make room for the liminal space as an area of response and invention. In the …
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Open hearts, closed doors : native Protestants, pluralism, and the "foreigner" in America, 1924-1965.
… Protestants grew more comfortable with cultural pluralism by midcentury, while remaining reluctant to embrace a religious pluralism that would replace their vision of a Protestant Christian nation. Many Protestant leaders, often holding positions in the Federal/National Council of Churches, also …
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THE EFFECT OF RELIGIOUS AND NON-RELIGIOUS CONTENT IN SOCIAL SUPPORT MESSAGES
Religious demographics are becoming increasingly diverse in the United States, including non-religious orientations. This increasing religious pluralism, along with the trend towards constant connectivity with social networks, creates a need to understand how religious differences can affect …
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The Church in Dialogue with Other Religions in the Postmodern World: Reflecting Beyond Nostra Aetate.
… the postmodern world today, characterized by religious pluralism and diversity, and dethronement of grand narrative, pose a challenge for the church in dialogue with non-Christians to reflect beyond the tenets inherent in the conciliar document, <em>Nostra Aetate</em> in order to foster a …
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Justice and the demands of realism
… demands of justice and a concern about moral and religious pluralism - and asks what role, if any, these concerns should play in the articulation of principles of justice. Through a critical interrogation of the theories of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Rawls, and Jurgen Habermas, the author argues …
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Relational Interreligious Dialogue: Interdisciplinary Arguments from Creator/Creature Theology and Quantum Entanglement
… advances, and worldviews that perceive religious others with suspicion, all intensify society’s awareness of religious plurality and the subsequent necessity for effective interreligious dialogue. Engaging in interreligious dialogue through daily encounters, conversations, common …
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Buddhism in South Africa : from textual imagination to contextual innovation
… Buddhism was both present in the histories of religious pluralism and pervasive among the contours of a geography of religious diversity in South Africa since at least the 1680s. In so doing, the thesis further attempts to make the apparent "strangeness" of Buddhism in South Africa appear more …
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The development of Religious Education in Secondary Schools in Zimbabwe in response to Pluralism
This study has explored and described how Religious Education (RE) in Secondary Schools in Zimbabwe has developed in response to pluralism. It has been inspired by my teaching experience in different secondary schools in the country. There has been a growing need in Zimbabwe to expand the horizon …
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The Changing Nature of Punishment: From Theology to Reform Ideology and Gallows to Penitentiaries, New England, 1674-1837
… in the understanding of salvation, and growing religious pluralism and. Due to these theological and ideological shifts, the sermons also show the movement from near universal religious support for the longstanding public execution ritual to an emerging opposition to this form of punishment. …
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A Theological Analysis of Confessional-Centric Curriculum of Christian Religious Education: Towards an Inclusive Religious Pluralistic Centered Curriculum for Nigeria Colleges of Education
… and unity despite the multi ethnic and multi religious composition of Nigeria, remain ideals that are constant in the nation’s Constitution. However, accruable benefits of a culturally and religiously pluralistic society have continued to elude Nigeria due to incessant religious violence …
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