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History of Religions
History of the 3 Monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) and of the main different Christianity confessions (Roman Catholicism, Eastern Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism and Protestantism)
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Pedagogical Approaches
New pedagogical approaches to teach history of religion
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Role of Religions in Civilization
How to didactically promote among students of different confessions, the capacity of a critical analysis and understanding of the role played by religions in the history of mankind
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Interreligious Students’ Competences
Set of teaching contents, to be used by teachers to highlight and valorize the universal values of tolerance and universalisms that all Monotheistic religions and religious texts contain to promote and sustain mutual understanding among students
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Managing Multi-Religious Classes
Teaching Sources to help teachers dealing with multicultural and multi-religious classes
Map
An interactive didactical map interactive didactical map giving access to sites with a religious relevance.-
Introduction
A comparative review of the liturgical celebrations, ceremonies and dietary rules existing in the different religions.
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Celebrations
Description and comparative analysis of the celebrations of different religions and confessions
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Ceremonies
Description and comparative analysis of the ceremonies of different religions and confessions
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Dietary Rules
Description and comparative analysis of the dietary rules of different religions and confessions
Events
The Pathway through Religions project has been promoted trough conferences and articles.
Conferences
The Pathway through Religions project was presented in a number of events in order to report about the activities carried out and the results achieved
Press Review
The Pathway through Religions project partnership made contacts with web sites focusing on the fields of educationPartnership
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Contractual Partners
From this section it is possible to access to a description of each contractual partner of the Pathway through Religions project.
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Schools
From this section it is possible to access to the information about the schools involved in the Pathway through Religions Project in the European countries involved.
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Associated Partners
As a result of the exploitation activity a number of associated partners officially joined the project in order to contribute to the improvement of the project impact on their target groups and to ensure the project sustainability by continuing using the project deliverables in the next years.
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Ceremonies
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Description and comparative analysis of the ceremonies of different religions and confessions
Cerimonies
One of these, the paracletic Canon (= plead to the Mother of God), composed around the 9th century, is a devotional text extensively widespread in Eastern Christianity, and represents the essential part of the πάνα κλίσε, the liturgy office in honour of the Mother of God, used in times of difficulty or great affliction, and usually sung during the Lent of the Dormition, that is every day in the two weeks before the great festivity of the Dormition of the Saint and Holy Mary. The structure and organization of the celebration is quite complex, and varies according to places and circumstances, but at the centre of the liturgy there is still the Paracletic Canon, composed of nine odes interspersed with prayers.
At the end of the Paraclisi, on the evening of 14th August, a particular icon, which is made of an embroidered cloth called "epitaphios" (=epithaph), representing the sleeping Virgin, is placed in a coffin to symbolize the Virgin's shroud and carried in procession.
Cover of an Italian edition of the Paraclectic canon
An Eastern Catholic priest and a Latin priest opening the procession of the Dormition at Montebello Ionico (CS)
Epitaph at the Greek Papal Seminary
Contemporary epitaph (21st century)
Orthodox Epitaph (19th century)
Procession of the Dormition at Macchia Albanese (CS)
