Understanding religious worldviews: concepts and roles through inter-religious dialogue in shaping a better future for humanity
Every religion has its own worldview that provides an outlook of life for perceiving the reality and truth with a sense of its meaning and values. The essence of religious faith shapes people’s attitudes, perceptions, conducts, actions, and enhances the relationships between man-God-universe. In...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/16425/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/16425/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/16425/1/Understanding_Religious_Worldviews.pdf |
| Summary: | Every religion has its own worldview that provides an outlook of life
for perceiving the reality and truth with a sense of its meaning and
values. The essence of religious faith shapes people’s attitudes,
perceptions, conducts, actions, and enhances the relationships
between man-God-universe. In this process, people who adhere to
a particular religion tend to explore the phenomena through the lens
of religion. However, throughout the history of religion, it has been
observed that religious worldviews provoked people to live with
peace, love, and co-existence on the one hand, with conflict,
violence, and destruction on the other (i.e., Crusades of Christian
Europe against Muslims, and Islamophobia). In contemporary time,
after the post-9/11, the world community observes hatred, violence,
conflict, and aggression between the Muslims and non-Muslims
because of propagation against Islam and Muslims, prejudice and
unequivocal ignorance. In these turmoil situations, inter-faith
dialogue is a vital requirement for establishing world peace and
security, and for reducing hatred and conflict that will strengthen to
shape a better prosperous future for the entire humanity. Therefore,
this article aims to understand the concept of religious worldview
and its role in shaping a better prosperous and affluent future for
humanity. Particularly this study focuses on: a) understanding the
concepts and roles of religious worldviews, b) illustrating how to
utilize comprehensively the inter-religious dialogue as a method in
enhancing the bridge among people of different faiths for a
prosperous future for entire humanity, c) elaborating vibrant
methodologies and principles for fruitful religious dialogue among
major world religions that explore the common grounds and
common values towards understanding each other in this globalized
era, d) providing pragmatic recommendations on devising versatile
strategies for prolific dialogue among religions in order to make the
world a better place to live in with peace, justice and co-existence.
Discussion would include implications of the research findings,
shortcomings of the current study, and directions for future
research. |
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