Religion, Religious Fervour, and Universalist Education
Journal of Religious Culture/Journal fuer Religionskultur, No. 86, 2007
9 Pages Posted: 28 Apr 2013
Date Written: 2007
Abstract
This paper is conceived from a secular perspective, and designed to address three elements identified in the call for papers: “Pluralistic tendencies,” their counter-part of “exclusivist attitudes,” and “creating an ethos of inter-religious harmony.” I choose to tackle these aspects by (a) exploring the meaning of religion, (b) addressing a specific attitude often corresponding to religion, namely religious fervour, and (c) assessing the validity and instrumentality of facilitating a universalist education as a tool to de-fuse “mistrust and hatred among various faith-communities.” The following paper is intended to serve only as a preliminary discussion guidance paper.
Keywords: Religion, Religious Fervour, Universalist Education
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