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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
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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Dietary Rules
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Description and comparative analysis of the dietary rules of different religions and confessions
Dietary Rules
5. Islam
In Islam, there are rules on diet like many other faiths. The forbidden foods in Islam are animals and birds that have died a natural death, animals killed without invoking the name of Allah, animals strangled to death, the meat of pork, animals of which wild beast has eaten, blood. There is also strick ban on alcohol as well. The food prohibited in Islam is called haram and the food that is free to eat is called halal.
Since it is widely consumed in the non-Muslim world, pork becomes quite an issue for a Muslim travelling or living in a non-Muslim country. With the increase in numbers of Muslims living in Europe, it became quite normal to have a sign indicating that the food served is “halal” on the windows of restaurants or fast-food places.
While people enjoy food in their daily life, faith dictates certain rules like fasting during certain times of the year. This encourages the Christians to abstain from certain foods during the week or the Lent, Islam dictates a total fasting from sunrise to sunset during a whole month of Ramadan. The whole month becomes a period of spiritual cleansing while hold day fasting is rewarded with a quite rich dinner.
Food signifies certain points and the tenth day of the first month of lunar Islamic calendar is celebrated by a certain pudding named Ashura, which is prepared with grain, sugar, dried fruits and nuts. It becomes a sign of social solidarity by distributing the cups of it to the neighbours, relatives but the meaning changes according to different sects of Islam.
Since it is widely consumed in the non-Muslim world, pork becomes quite an issue for a Muslim travelling or living in a non-Muslim country. With the increase in numbers of Muslims living in Europe, it became quite normal to have a sign indicating that the food served is “halal” on the windows of restaurants or fast-food places.
While people enjoy food in their daily life, faith dictates certain rules like fasting during certain times of the year. This encourages the Christians to abstain from certain foods during the week or the Lent, Islam dictates a total fasting from sunrise to sunset during a whole month of Ramadan. The whole month becomes a period of spiritual cleansing while hold day fasting is rewarded with a quite rich dinner.
Food signifies certain points and the tenth day of the first month of lunar Islamic calendar is celebrated by a certain pudding named Ashura, which is prepared with grain, sugar, dried fruits and nuts. It becomes a sign of social solidarity by distributing the cups of it to the neighbours, relatives but the meaning changes according to different sects of Islam.
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