Bojan Žalec presented a paper at the international scientific conference in Maribor where he presented the interpretation of different conceptions of different kinds of love by Kierkegaard. He shelled out the one which can be used as a good and useful basis for dialogue and coexistence in difference. The primary interest of his research was a form of love which Kierkegaard denoted by the term Kjerlighed. Kjerlighed is a synthesis of the respect of unique meaning of every individual at one hand and the meaning of self-limitation, duty to the other, of renouncement and sometimes even sacrifice at the other. As such it represents an attitude and virtue which is important for the cultivation of solidary personalism and dialogic universalism.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 6703962The scientific collection of esseys contains contributions of papers which in broader context are evolving issue of female forms of spirituality in the Slovenian religious space. It allows deeper insights into the problem of the perception of the phenomenon of spirituality in the context of gender dimensions and reveals the creative tensions that are present in the study of spirituality and gender and thus demonstrates a new spiritual ideas and practices, which are formed in the practice of contemporary women's movements and female forms of spirituality in Slovenia.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 276067328The article begins by first discussing some aspects of the rationality of religious commitment, which includes cognitive, emotional, attitudinal and behavioural dimensions. It then goes on to investigate the nature of fundamentalism and why it is opposed to the mentioned rationality. These facets are also important for the debate on religious tolerance. As an example the paper focuses in particular on a thesis about the new religious intolerance (Martha Nussbaum), which point to the emergence of new forms of religious intolerance in spaces, which are traditionally marked with tolerance and openness. The culture or ideology of fear is highlighted as one of the causes of intolerance. It then considers Nussbaum’s proposal that in order to overcome this religious intolerance we need (i) good political and legal principles of equality and freedom of religion, (ii) critical thinking and consistency in our beliefs and judgments, and (iii) cultivation of empathy and care for the other. The central role of proper understanding of religious freedom in the debate about the relationship between the state and religious communities is considered and some peculiarities of understanding of religious freedom and the discussion about it in Europe are pointed out in light of a more general discussion on rationality of religious commitment and the nature of fundamentalism.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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