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Dialogue has become a fashionable word in the theological circles for quite some time now. However, there is a need to review what has been achieved so far. If it is significant, we should then review how much religious tension has been reduced so far. If it is not much, why has there been no progress. In this note I will deal with the issues relating to Hindu-Christian dialogue. I am using Christianity only as a reference point, and the issues raised do have a wider context as well. As far as Hindu-Christian dialogue is concerned, I am of the opinion that there has been hardly any progress all these years. Many academics and theologians have been involved in the exercise so far. The whole literature, over a long period of time, seems to follow a familiar pattern – a discussion on the theory of the dialogue, what should be included in a dialogue, who should and should not be involved in a dialogue, and ends with a lament that there is so very little progress. The problem, according to me, is that the dialogue does not even consider a need to discuss what is the basic difference between Hinduism and Christianity, and an inquiry into whether these come in the way of communal harmony. A dialogue is really not necessary if we are to discuss only what is similar between the two systems. ...
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In this article, the author shows that progress of info-communications is a key factor of society changes, as it radically changes the key aspects of human life. Studying the time of progress and comparing it with the most important anthropic characteristic - length of human life, he comes to the conclusion that our generation has witnessed the tipping point in the rate of development of human civilization. This showing up in the fact that the present stage of the scientific and technological advance lead to the transformation, perhaps on the same scale, what were the appearance of written language and publishing, but these multiple fundamental changes in the life of society occur within the life of a single generation. In these circumstances, the task of forecasting, in its traditional setting, is becoming increasingly inaccurate. According to the author, the only possibility is to venture outside the framework of formal logic and technocratic approaches and try to find answers to these questions by generating new meanings of the realities surrounding us and in this context philosophy has a special role.
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Religious Anthropology studies the origins, evolution and functions of religions. The discipline researching religious beliefs and rituals comparatively with cross-cultural perspectives tries to enlighten the belief world of the mankind. Religion, as a term, can be defined as "believing as well as worshipping to the supernatural powers and/or beings by the individual who are emotionally or consciously devoted to them" (Örnek 1988: 127). There have been a number of theories so far which try to bring an explanation to the origins and the evolution of religion. In these theories, Fetishism, cults of nature, animism, Totemism, dynamism, Manism, magic, polytheism, monotheism as well as certain physiological phenomena have been particularized as evolutionary stages and forms of belief (Evans-Pritchard 1998: 124). All of these theories have the perspective of so called "progressive" and / or "unilinear" that maintain a religion which has reached ongoing stages and that communities which have developed from primitiveness to civilization. They argue that there has only been one single line of progress, and all of the communities are bound to go through the same evolutionary stages.
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Aus der bedingungslosen Mutterliebe Allahs gegenüber seinen Geschöpfen resultiert die bedingungslose Mutterliebe der Menschen gegenüber dem Nächsten, insb. dem Bedürftigen. Diese folgt als logische Notwendigkeit aus dem Glauben an Allahs unbedingte Gnade. Diakonie ist daher nach der Gnadenbotschaft Mohammeds kein sündentilgendes Werk, sondern ein Handeln aus dem Glauben an Allahs Werk, seiner freien Sündenvergebung. So wie Allah seine Sündenvergebung nicht an das Werk des Menschen bindet, so bindet der glaubende Mensch sein Werk der Barmherzigkeit nicht an das vergeltende Handeln des Bedürftigen. Er schenkt, weil er beschenkt worden ist. Diakonie wie Nächstenliebe allgemein wird somit zum Spiel, einer Handlung, die sich in sich selbst erschöpft und sich an sich selbst erfreut. Denn Allahs Handeln, seine jede Gerechtigkeit mit Füßen tretende Gnade, ist nichts als ein Gottesspiel. Indem die Menschen auf Allahs Spiel der Sündenvergebung vertrauen, werden sie zu Mitspie-lern Gottes.
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Alman Anayasası velilere, öğrencilere ve dinî cemaatlere eğitim alanında haklar ve yetkiler tanımaktadır. Buna göre veliler ve öğrenciler doğrudan hak sahibi iken dinî cemaatler bu hakkın devletle birlikte taşıyıcısı ve uygulayıcısıdır. Anayasa; devletin, din dersi verme sorumluluğunu dinî cemaatlerle paylaşması gerektiğini ve din derslerini, dinî cemaatlerle uyum, anlaşma ve iş birliği içerisinde vermek zorunda olduğunu hükme bağlamıştır. Bu bağlamda din derslerinin, Devlet’in şekline ve Anayasa’sına halel getirmeden kiliselerin veya dinî cemaatlerin tasavvuru çerçevesinde verilmesi ve organize edilmesi öngörülmüştür. Bu makalede Devlet tarafından teminat altına alınan bu hak ve özgürlüklerin Alman okullarında uygulanabilmesi için söz konusu mevzuatın incelenerek okula, aileye ve ilgili cemaatlere düşen görev ve sorumlulukların belirlenmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Makalede anayasal çerçevesi ve hukuki statüsü incelenecek olan din dersleri meselesi, okullarda verilecek İslam din öğretimini yakından ilgilendirmektedir. Bu anlamda öncelikle Almanya’da din öğretiminin yasal dayanakları ile dinî cemaatlerin hukuki statüleri ortaya konulmuş, sonra da Almanya’da zorunlu temel öğretim kademelerinde okuyan Müslüman öğrencilere yönelik düzenlenen İslam din derslerine yer verilmiştir