TY  - GEN
A1  - Weber, Edmund
T1  - Swami Vivekananda's ethics of religion : a contribution to a modern concept of religion and inter-religious relations
T2  - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur
N2  - Many religious people believe that the integration of world society is of the greatest importance for mankind. They think that the religions of the world should strive to attain this goal through multi-religious agreement, through inter-religious dialogue, even through the merger of their organisations. Religious unification is supposed to be an effective instrument to encourage world society and to guarantee social peace. Religious differentiation, however, is dubious to these people. It would lead to social splintering and would ultimately be anti-social and extremely dangerous, especially to the economic unification of the world. The people who advocate religious unification look upon the progressing cultural, political and economic unification of the world as a model for religious unity. Therefore, many religious people believe that a unified global religion, or at least a union of world religions, should be implemented today. Options of this kind, however, are utopian in the extreme - confronting the ever-expanding conflicts between the established international religious organisations. Pragmatists who espouse the doctrine of religious unification therefore propagate the following fundamental tenets: 1. All religious people believe in the same god or whatever the ultimate reality may be called. 2. Each religion may believe in the ultimate reality in its own way. 3. No religious community is allowed to make converts. 4. Everybody should remain in his original religious community forever. These tenets are in reality nothing but a kind of a cartel agreement. And this agreement should establish an inter-religious combine, which had to stop competition between the religious organisations and to prevent the individual to leave his original religion. The basic supposition of this concept, however, is that religion today has mainly to be seen as an organised, congregational and institutionalised one. And because of this historical error they are only interested to keep the status quo of the established religious organisations. The propagation of that cartel agreement is rooted in the fear, that the established religions wouldn't survive the radical religious revolution at the end of the 20th century.
T3  - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur - 4 
Y1  - 1997
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/588
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-48889
UR  - http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/religionskultur.htm
SN  - 1434-5935
N1  - Paper read at the Vivekananda Congress 'Vision 2000', Washington, D.C., 1992, and at the Catholic Dharmaram Vidyakshetram, Bangalore (India), 1996. Extended German version: THEION - Annual for Religious Culture, vol. III, Frankfurt am Main 1994
IS  - 4
PB  - Univ.
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -