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In 2009 the UNESCO Chair on Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue, based upon the facilities of the St. Petersburg Branch Russian Institute for Cultural Research, in close contact with the UNESCO Chair at St. Joseph University in Beirut (Lebanon), under the auspices of the UNESCO Moscow Office and the UNESCO Office in Beirut, and within the UNITWIN Network on Interreligious Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding, initiated a program of international interdisciplinary research entitled ‘Christianity and Islam in the Context of the Contemporary Culture’. In 1-4 of June 2009 in St.Petersburg (Russia) there will be organized a two-day seminar "Christianity and Islam in the Context of the Contemporary Culture". The results of the project will be presented in Russian and English as an e-book. The comparative research will include articles by Russian and Lebanese experts in both particular aspects of the culture of Islam and basic issues of inter-religious dialogue. The publication is due in August 2009. General concept of the publication ‘Christianity and Islam in the Context of the Contemporary Culture’ consists in: • outlining, analyzing and presenting most fundamental trends in the contemporary theory and practice of interfaith dialogue, forming an integral part of the intercultural one, linking it whenever possible, although not necessarily, to present-day challenges and perspectives in the Christian-Islamic dialogue in particular; • tracing back, summarizing and complementing whenever necessary common and particular traits in basic strategies and ‘good practices’ of leading interfaith dialogue in the framework of present-day Russia and Lebanon; • detecting and defining most constructive tactics of general enhancement of the social cohesion and spiritual peace, basing on the material of our two respective countries. Project Background: • the Main Line of Action 5 of the UNESCO Culture Major Programme "Promoting the understanding and development of intercultural dialogue and peace", with purpose to foster intercultural dialogue in all its dimensions, including the interfaith dimension, • the recommendations of the World Report on Cultural Diversity (2008) and the report of the Alliance of Civilizations (2006), the recommendations of the "International Conference on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue for Peace and Sustainable Development", held in Moscow in September 2007 |
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