Review article

https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.56.2.5

Interreligious Competence from the Perspective of Religious Education Didactics

Jadranka Garmaz orcid.org/0000-0002-5239-1985 ; Catholic faculty of Theology, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Hans Mendl ; University of Passau, Passau, Germany

Abstract

The context of religious education in Europe is marked by cultural, religious and worldview pluralism. Therefore, the article, from a religious didactic perspective, deals with the criteria and elements that belong to interreligious competence in Catholic religion education.
The first chapter analyses the basic concepts related to the teaching of religion, with special emphasis on the distinction among the concepts of interreligious, multireligious, transreligious and transversal competence. The second chapter summarizes some religious didactic criteria, elements and principles of interreligious competence in confessional Catholic religion. The third chapter opens up new research perspectives within the field of comparative religious pedagogy. Assuming attitudes of respect, readiness for change and the establishment of friendships, interreligious competence proves to be indispensable precisely in the education for coexistence in a plural society. In religious education, it plays a key role in adopting attitudes and skills that enable the development of tolerance and respect considering the diversity of cultures and religions.

Keywords

religious education didactics; interreligious and intercultural competence; freedom of worship; peace; solidarity; fraternity

Hrčak ID:

258355

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/258355

Publication date:

21.6.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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