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Competences in Inter-religious Learning

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International Handbook of Inter-religious Education

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This chapter seeks to address what it means to adopt the pedagogical concept of competence within the context of inter-religious learning. The experience of religious diversity and plurality marks the starting point of inter-religious learning, which is understood as a transforming process that is circularly fed back to situational conditions. Inter-religious competence means the desired or factual outcome of this process in relation to life-world-related demands and with limited generalisation in respect of new challenges. While these abilities are deeply connected with religious identity, which emerges from a personal position in relation to others, they can be achieved through neither a mono- nor a multi-religious approach. The principal thesis of this chapter, therefore, is that inter-religious learning has to be understood as a constitutive and essential part of religious learning rather than being an opposite or alternative thereof.

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    Stefan Altmeyer

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  1. Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia

    Kath Engebretson

  2. National School of Religious Education, Australian Catholic University, Mair St 1200, Ballarat, 3350, Victoria, Australia

    Marian de Souza

  3. Graduate School of Religion &, Religious Education, Fordham University, Bronx, 10987, New York, USA

    Gloria Durka

  4. Digby Stuart College, Roehampton University, London, SW15 5PH, United Kingdom

    Liam Gearon

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Altmeyer, S. (2010). Competences in Inter-religious Learning. In: Engebretson, K., de Souza, M., Durka, G., Gearon, L. (eds) International Handbook of Inter-religious Education. International Handbooks of Religion and Education, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9260-2_38

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