TY - GEN A1 - Yıldız, Murat T1 - The importance of empathic communication in dialog process T2 - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur N2 - When we observe today’s world, we can safely say that tensions and clashes still continue and that some of them arise from interreligious and intercultural conflicts. In search of a safer future world, man, naturally, looks for a solution. In this context, it is thought that empathic communication model will contribute greatly to the reduction of prejudices and to the formation of a healthy interreligious and intercultural dialog process. The aim of this study is to draw attention towards the importance of learning and teaching of empathic communication skills as a procedural method in interreligious and intercultural relations. In this study, emphasis was placed upon communication conflicts and prejudices and contributions that empathic communication can make in the reduction of prejudices were outlined. T3 - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur - 153 KW - Empathic communication KW - interreligious dialog KW - intercultural dialog KW - prejudices KW - communication conflicts Y1 - 2012 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25236 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-252369 UR - http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/religionskultur.htm SN - 1434-5935 IS - 153 PB - Goethe-Univ. CY - Frankfurt am Main ER -