Interreligious peacebuilding: a new engagement of religious actors in European politics?

European View - Tập 8 - Trang 107-115 - 2009
Friedrich Bokern1
1CISMOC, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Tóm tắt

The European Union has witnessed substantial changes in religion and politics since the advent of eastern enlargement. Religion continues to affect ethical convictions and the exercise of political power in spite of the functional separation of religious and political powers. This paper explores how religion has been used on the one hand as a motive for conflict as well as a powerful weapon in times of conflict, and on the other hand as a basis for peace and prosperity. Given that globalisation is continuously bringing various communities of different cultural backgrounds closer together, often leading to disorder, the author raises the important question of whether such conflicts may be overcome by engaging in intercultural and interreligious dialogue for the purpose of peacebuilding.

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