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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
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Celebrations
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Description and comparative analysis of the celebrations of different religions and confessions
Celebrations
The day before the feast starts (the last day of fasting), people visit cemeteries, do shopping buying new clothes especially for the children and prepare food. In Turkey people visit the cemeteries in the first day as well.
During the three days of the feast people visit family, relatives and friends. In Turkish the fest is also called Şeker Bayramı (Sugar Feast) and almost every women prepare desserts to serve to the visitors. Candies are kept at home to give the children who go from one house to another for greeting. In some cases a little cash is given to them, who joyously spend this pocket money on different food or in the fairground.
Because all of the community must be included the poor are not forgotten and that they get a fair amount of alms from everyone. This is always emphasized especially in the Eid-al-Fitr sermon, since the Zakat-ul-Fitr seasonal poor-due should have been given by the time it takes place. The breaking of the Ramadan fast is also the best time to donate the annual zakat in support of underprivileged members of the society. This act is also another one of the five pillars of Islam.
The feast starts with the morning prayer, which is supposed to be attended by the males. Dressing up clean (often new clothes is one of the social codes of the feast. Since the congregation is very crowded it is quite normal to see people lined up outside of the mosque on carpets they brought. After the prayer, families have breakfast together.
Tradition related to the feast may vary depending on the geography.
Ramadan feast starts with the morning prayer, which is supposed to be attended by the males.
It is customary to visit one's relatives, especially older ones, and kiss their hand as a sign of respect. In return the kissing of the hands, elder people give some money or candies to children.
One of the tradition of children is going around in their neighbourhood, from door to door and wishing people a happy eid. As a reward, they receive candies, chocolates, or even a small amount of money.
Neighborhood children go door to door together to collect money and candies.
It is customary to serve desert during the Ramadan Feast (Eid al-Fitr) visits and traditional Turkish baklava is the most commonly served desert along with Turkish coffee or tea.
A video about how Muslim people break the Ramadan fast all over the world.
