Reconciliation is important for a life in community. It is possible if those involved in a dispute are willing to change their views and move from tribal logic to universal one. The Gospel did such a passage by calling to a paradigm shift: μετανοεϊτε. This paper answers to the question: How is the Gospel’s μετανοεϊτε translated into the sociopolitical life. It is done in three steps. First, it shows the meaning of μετανοεϊτε, then how does it work in Western countries and how the dissidents of communism encouraged people to do it, especially Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Finally, there is a talk about how is μετανοεϊτε realised in Slovenia. When it comes to such deeds as the mass killings around the world, we are within the principles of universal ethics, when we are dealing with similar cases in our country, then prevails the tribal logic. Therefore the society is torn, values are in crisis and reconciliation, beginning with μετανοεϊτε, really needed.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 5530458After the presentation of the fundamental principles of business ethics in Islam, the paper presents the impact these principles have on the position and role of women in the labour market. Then it confronts three different perspectives as possible determinants of the inequalities between women and men. The most common and widely accepted assumption that the tradition and religion are to be blamed for the subordination of women in Islam is confronted with the theory of Michael L. Ross, who claims that the current situation in the labour market is primarily the fault of the rapid development of oil and gas industry.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 5725786Muslims in Slovenia (2,4% of the population) emigrated from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo or Macedonia in the last 50 years. The paper discusses their religious integration in the new environment. Integration can be defined as a two-way process of mutual adaptation between immigrants and the local community. The Slovenian State has wished to enable the integration of Muslims following the European integration policy. We cannot overlook the fact that in the year 2011 Muslims in Slovenia are not administratively uniform. A close look into their integration efforts regarding the Islamic expressions of faith in everyday life (dressing, prayer, nutrition, burial, polygamy, holidays) shows that the Islamic community in Slovenia and Slovenian Muslim community intend to create a Slovene Islamic identity. The Association for the promotion Islamic culture in Slovenia, however, maintains expressions of faith, brought by the members from their ex Islamic environment.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 9565955The response given by the gospels to the destroying vengeance is not accusation of innocent victims, but forgiveness. The gospel displays that sacrificial victims are not the true answer to the vengeance, but self-limitation, responsibility and forgiveness. Therewith, Gospels set basis for a new society that Girard designates as Christic. This society manifests itself by liberating the poor and weak. This leads to increasing equality and ultimately to democracy. In the same time, new forms of rationality are being developed aiming at an ever greater fairness and justice. This development results in a major concern for victims in modern society. The influence of Christianity is also reflected in the fact that forgiveness as a fundamental Christian notion is being assumed today by non-Christian cultures, which believe that forgiveness may constitute basis of their future. Forgiveness frees the man for the future by liberating him from the past and showing that man is greater is greater in his dignity than his past and his misdeeds. It shows that man’s true being consists in his future, which is a reservoir of possibilities.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 5696090There is an important question – both in comparative religious studies and in a dialogue between Christians and Muslims – concerning the meaning, role and place of Jesus in Christianity and Islam. Is this Jesus only one figure understood differently by these two religions or are there two figures, which cannot be reduced to a single one? What say about it experts in religious studies and what religious professionals? Clarification of this issue is important for a better understanding of these two religions, and a frank and fruitful dialogue between their members.
B.04 Guest lecture
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