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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
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Conferences
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Press Review
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Contractual Partners
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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
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Dietary Rules
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Description and comparative analysis of the dietary rules of different religions and confessions
Dietary Rules
3. Roman Catholicism
Among the many aspects that that distinguish cultures, food is probably one of the most significant and symbolic. Nutrition is often influenced by climate or by whether it is possible to cultivate the land. However, the way foods are cooked and/or which foods are eaten and which are not may also depend on religious principles. Most of religions give to food particular meanings, such to justify the setting of rules. Therefore, most of religions recognize eating and drinking as actions full of a strong religious meaning. While we are accustomed to eat quickly, alone, standing, and often doing something else in the meantime, religions remind us a lifestyle completely different from the one of today. Religions consider food as a gift of God and/or of Nature, and this should inspire everybody to be aware of eating importance, not to take for granted the availability of food and not to reduce meals to a simple sequence of automatic gestures. There are many actions of praise, blessing, thanksgiving and prayer over and about the food.
Moreover, among the alimentary practices that are common to different religions, we find the invitation to abstinence and fasting, despite the specific peculiarities.
The holy days are a chance to remind humans that they live in a space and in a time where they somehow relate to divinity. But holy days are also an invitation to not forget the work of creation and the duties that humans have towards what surround them.
So, during holy days there's a real alimentary specificity that differentiates the holyday menu from everyday food. The foods eaten in fact often recall the religious meaning of the holy day and/or the foods reported in sacred texts.
Although Christian religion does not provide for a precise and detailed alimentary code, almost all Christian holydays do have a specific dish related to the religious dimension celebrated by the liturgy.
Moreover, among the alimentary practices that are common to different religions, we find the invitation to abstinence and fasting, despite the specific peculiarities.
The holy days are a chance to remind humans that they live in a space and in a time where they somehow relate to divinity. But holy days are also an invitation to not forget the work of creation and the duties that humans have towards what surround them.
So, during holy days there's a real alimentary specificity that differentiates the holyday menu from everyday food. The foods eaten in fact often recall the religious meaning of the holy day and/or the foods reported in sacred texts.
Although Christian religion does not provide for a precise and detailed alimentary code, almost all Christian holydays do have a specific dish related to the religious dimension celebrated by the liturgy.
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