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Interreligious Students’ Competences

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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

Building Students’ Interreligious Competences in Communication
and Adaptation in a Cross-Cultural Environment

Vittorio Rapetti, Laura Trinchero, Lucia Zamorani, IIS Rita Levi-Montalcini (Italy)

The aim of this chapter is to offer activities and teaching tips in order to develop students’ communication skills concerning the relationships between different cultures in a cross-cultural environment. The aim is to develop both the cognitive and the existential and relational field. In this perspective the teacher works with the aim of introducing the values common to the different religions (in particular the monotheistic ones, but also other religions). Such values can be envisaged as the equal dignity of human beings, respect for the environment, solidarity towards the poor, and the spiritual aspect as a fundamental element of life. For this purpose it is important to introduce students, depending on their age, to the texts of the different religious traditions displaying such values. The same values foster peaceful relations and mutual understanding that can be distinguished from the pseudo-religious messages that exalt violence and the persecution of those who belong to a different culture and religion. From a historical point of view, religions are, indeed, both causes of exclusion and conflict (when making use of coercive and violent means) and sponsors of dialogue and peace (when making use of non-violent, cultural and relational tools).

1. Comparing Religious Differences, Prejudices and Stereotypes

2. Religion as a Source of Exclusion and Conflict

3. Religion as a Source of Inclusion and Peace

4. Interfaith Map of the Local Community

5. Recognizing and Developing the Positive Potential

6. Making Judgements – The Role of Religion and Cultural Traditions

7. Religious Education through Drama

8. Interactive Test

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