Faith and Shared Values
A Dialogue for a Culture of Encounter and Responsible Citizenship
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Faith, Shared ValuesAbstract
The American political scientist, Samuel P. Huntington assumes in his book The Clash of Civilizations (1996) that the modern international conflict is usually a conflict between two different cultures, two different civilizations, or religions, a hypothesis that argued that people's cultural and religious identities were to be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world. No doubt that various civilizations are differentiated from one another by their history, language, culture, tradition as well as religion. But is religion the only factor of contemporary clashes or violence? What about politics? Can different faiths of the same culture contribute to peacemaking and pacific coexistence? Can good citizenship by itself create a peaceful society or it could be animated by faith to be more productive?
It is the aim of this paper to argue for the importance of faith and shared cultural and religious values as essential and interdependent components of maintaining Christians’ and Muslims’ peaceful coexistence.
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