CHRISTIANITY AND ITS NEIGHBOUR-RELIGIONS: A QUESTION OF TOLERANCE? IMPULSES FOR THE EDUCATION OF RELIGION FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF ECUMENICAL DIALOGUE

  • Wolfram Weisse Stellenbosch University
Keywords: Religions, Religious education, Ecumenical dialogue, Hans Jochen Margull

Abstract

A far reaching change in perspectives is opening up:  In a time of decreasing significance of Christianity in Germany (and in the whole Western world?) other religions are growing considerably in our countries.  Today religions are present in Europe which in the past had to be researched by travelling and by the analysis of their teachings.  The ‘Foreign Religions’ or ‘World Religions’ of the past are now ‘neighbour-religions’.

Author Biography

Wolfram Weisse, Stellenbosch University
Centre of Contextual HermeneuticsUniversity of Stellenbosch
Published
2019-09-10
Section
Articles