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The scholarly contributors to this volume investigate various means
to stimulate and facilitate reflection on new social relations
while clarifying the contradictions between religious and social
affiliation from different perspectives and experiences. They
explore hindrances whose removal could enable Muslim children and
youth to pursue equal participation in political and social life,
and the ways that education could facilitate this process.
Whether formally incorporated into curriculum and teacher training
or informally integrated in contexts such as state or NGO
initiatives dealing with resolving social, ethnic, and religious
conflicts, peace education is increasingly recognized as a critical
component in addressing violence in contemporary plural societies.
Peace education can constructively undertake a reframing of
historical narratives while inspiring practical community
activities. An important, but insufficiently studied and theorized
aspect of peace education is the role of religion. The challenge to
peace education in today's globalized, diverse, mobile, and
religiously pluralistic world is to be able to take both complex
global and distinctive local situations into account. The
contributions to this integrative collection of essays provide
exactly these local and global perspectives on the state of peace
education and its relationship to religion across pedagogy and
curriculum, state policies, and activism within societies on the
front lines of resolving internal conflicts, whether historical or
recent, that often reflect aspects of religious identities.
This volume features chapters by international experts in
education, sociology, and theology who consider a range of
challenges faced by educators in primary and secondary schools that
are becoming increasingly diverse in terms of the ethnic and
religious backgrounds of pupils. From the non-religious, to the
refugee, to student fundamentalism and even radicalization -these
multiple, fresh approaches analyze the dynamics of the changing
pedagogical landscape in an age of ever increasing globalization
and cultural plurality. Today's classrooms are often the most
crucial spaces where children and adolescents encounter new
cultural, religious, and other worldviews. Increasingly, teachers
are called on to empower their pupils with the tools and
competencies necessary to reflect on and process this plurality in
ways that are productive for their intellectual growth and moral
maturation. Regional case studies provide extensive data while
offering insights into developments in school settings across
Europe, in Turkey, and in the United States. In addition, a number
of the contributions address the delivery, content, and policies of
Islamic Religious Education in European contexts, the educational
strategies employed in multi-religious societies, and
interreligious dialogue in schools, whether intentional or
spontaneous.
Religious and ethnic diversity have become crucial and pressing
concerns in Europe: in particular, the presence of Muslims, their
integration, citizenship, and how to deal with the influx of
refugees. Can we draw on the resources of religions and their
leaders for models of peaceful coexistence or do religious
identities constitute obstacles to cooperation and unity? This
volume treats "Islam, Religions, and Pluralism in Europe" based on
a 2014 conference in Montenegro. Experts analyze Islam and Muslim
issues as well as Christian perspectives and state social policies.
Case studies drawn from Western and Eastern Europe including the
Balkans, constructively review and interrogate diverse theological,
philosophical, pedagogical, legal, and political models and
strategies that deal with pluralism.
In this volume, the authors attempt to speak freely about the
potential in religions both for violence and peace. I am confident
that many impulses from this work will also impact the direction of
churches and other religious communities, such that religions, all
together, will try to mobilize the members of their communities to
actively contribute to world peace. In this way, religions will be
perceived as part of the solution for world peace, enabling them to
move beyond the stigma of their damaged reputations.
Islamic Sufism in the West This book is a study of the phenomenon
of Islamic Sufism in the West, which first began by adopting a
universalist philosophical form with the Universalist Order of
'Inayat Khan. Its goal was to be in keeping with the intellectual
and political landscape prevalent in the West in the early
twentieth century, which used to see Sufism as disconnected from
the Islamic religion. This view quickly came into conflict with the
reality of Muslim Sufism which appeared with the foundation of the
Western branches of the Darqawiyya Shadhiliya. The Western
Shadhiliyya tariqas and their different branches took a leading
role in changing the understanding of Sufi thought prevalent in the
West and directed it and gradually moved it towards its true
Islamic basis. One of the most conspicuous of these is the Western
branch of the Habibiyya Darqawiyya order which originated in
Morocco and brought to the West, particularly the Anglo-Saxon
world, the Moroccan form of Sufism based on three elements: the
Maliki school in fiqh - based on the practice of the people of
Madina, the Ash'arite creed in theology - to which the people of
the Sunna and Community hold - and the Path of al-Junayd in Sufism.
Aziz EL Kobaiti Idrissi, Ph.D. Professor of Arabic Language and
Sufi Literature at the Moroccan Ministry of National Education, he
is the author of four books about Islamic Sufism in the West and
Sufi Literature. He has participated in many international
conferences in Morocco, the United States, Egypt, Spain, South
Africa, Germany, and Macedonia. He is also the organizer of many
sufi gatherings and conferences inside and outside Morocco.
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