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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.
This section of the Pathway through Religions portal provides administrative information for the project contractual partners and for the European Commission and it is password protected.
Role of Religions in Civilization
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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
Role of Religions in Civilization
4. Religion Supporting the Development of Literature
The teacher can use the following elements that are presented by a university teacher. He presents the main elements of narrative structures and links them to the main questions raised by religions:
“The elements of narrative structure (character, plot, atmosphere, and tone) inevitably relate us to questions of belief. Thus, even in a society like ours that does not think of itself as particularly religious, the stories we tell tend to relate us to the big questions in life that religions have always asked and attempted to answer.
“The elements of narrative structure (character, plot, atmosphere, and tone) inevitably relate us to questions of belief. Thus, even in a society like ours that does not think of itself as particularly religious, the stories we tell tend to relate us to the big questions in life that religions have always asked and attempted to answer.
- Character: When making decisions about a character, authors cannot avoid fundamental questions of beliefs because of the questions that must be answered. Are people finally mean or worthy? What is the greatest evil to which human nature is prone? Can a person find an escape from the evils that surround him or her and, on a personal level, what is the nature of this "salvation?"
- Plot: Again, people differ over whether life is good or bad, to be trusted or defied, and whether life has a larger meaning or whether it is meaningless. The plot of a tale will always imply answers to questions like these, and answers to such big questions have the status of fundamental beliefs.
- Tone: Tone is the presence of the teller in the tale - a narrative always belongs to somebody or some community. We can find in every narrative the values and beliefs of the teller, directly or indirectly, clearly or faintly.
- Atmosphere: Atmosphere tells us what is possible in a tale; it sets the boundaries in a particular narrative. What is possible in one tale may be very different from what is possible in another: talking animals, space ships, wizards, messiahs, or hard-boiled New York cops. Because these questions of boundaries, limitations or conditions in life are always answered with belief, they are again big questions. Writers and readers are involved with the question of belief not by choice, but because the narrative element of atmosphere requires it.”
Online Resources
- Religion and LiteratureThis source is an article written by a university teacher. He presents the main elements of narrative structures and links them to the main questions raised by religions.
- The relationship between psychology and religionHere teachers can find information about the relationship between psychology and religion according to the theories of some of the most eminent psychologists, providing an entirely different overview by ideas, concepts and experimental researches.
Practical Activity
- Religious themes in literatureThe activity is a discussion about some main themes in literature that can be linked to religious questions, using cards depicting these themes.
