Religion and foreign affairs
interreligious dialogue, diplomacy and peace-building
- ISBN: 9783631927632
- Editorial: Peter Lang
- Fecha de la edición: 2025
- Lugar de la edición: Bruxelles. Bélgica
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 186
- Idiomas: Inglés
Statistics reveal that approximately 85.4% of the world's population follows a religion. Since the 1990s, the study of religion has become increasingly integrated into the foreign policy and diplomatic training of various states. Recently, interreligious dialogue has emerged as a key tool for fostering respect among diverse religious and non-religious perspectives, aiming to mitigate the polarization often associated with societal attitudes toward religious diversity.
This book explores interreligious dialogue as a means of contributing to peacebuilding. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing and protecting the core aspects of religious experience to establish a genuine culture of encounter.
This publication is a collaborative effort between university scholars and international experts, developed within the research group "Interreligious Dialogue & Peacebuilding" led by the Institute of European Studies and Human Rights at the Pontifical University of Salamanca.
Chapter 1 Religion and Diplomacy: The Interreligious Dialogue as an Instrument of Peace (Mario Torres Jarrín)
Chapter 2 The Culture of Encounter or the New Survivorship Bias (José Antonio Calvo Gómez)
Chapter 3 Seeing the World Differently Is Already a Way of Beginning to Change It: The Political Geometry of the Culture of Encounter—Fraternity, Inclusivity, and Social Peace (Scott M. Thomas)
Chapter 4 Interreligious Dialogue from a Secular Perspective: Some Ideas and Experiences (Javier Martínez-Torrón and María-José Valero-Estarellas)
Chapter 5 Hermeneutic Foundations for a Theology of Interreligiosity: The Contribution of the Theology of Religious Diversity to a Culture of Peace (José Ramón Matito Fernández)
Chapter 6 The Language of Prophets (Abraham Skorka)
Chapter 7 Intellectual Effort as a Space for Concord (Santiago García-Jalón de la Lama)
Chapter 8 Understanding the Relationship between Religiousness and Interreligious Dialogue (Aída Velasco Morla)
Chapter 9 Religious Freedom as More Than a Right: The Condition of Other Freedoms, of Respect for Human Dignity and of Social Coexistence (Román A. Pardo Manrique)
Chapter 10 Truth Seeking and Peacebuilding: Interreligious Dialogue in the Catholic University (Roger B. Alfani and Ines Angeli Murzaku)
Notes on Contributors
