[pt] A contribuição do papa Francisco para o diálogo inter-religioso, em especial na sua carta encíclica Laudato Si’ é o tema principal desta dissertação. Foi feita uma exposição sobre o tema do diálogo inter-religioso em geral, através de obras de referência para esta temática, a fim de compreender os desafios e a importância do diálogo em tempos de pluralismo religioso e crise sócio-ecológica. Assim, foi preparado o terreno para posicionarmos as contribuições do papa Francisco ao tema do diálogo inter-religioso, caracterizando sua atuação em prol do diálogo da fraternidade, na amizade e caminhada conjunta, que vai em busca do enriquecimento mútuo e bem comum, trabalhando em favor da paz, justiça social, tolerância e liberdade religiosa. Utilizou-se primeiramente como base a exortação apostólica Evangelii Gaudium, conteúdo programático de seu pontificado que prevê a prática do diálogo inter-religioso como parte da missão evangelizadora da Igreja Católica. Chegou-se ao entendimento de que o diálogo inter-religioso está dentro da prática pastoral de Francisco. Levantou-se então a pergunta-hipótese: há em Francisco uma contribuição original e singular para o tema do diálogo inter-religioso atual? Questão respondida positivamente. Através da análise da Laudato Si, constatou-se uma contribuição original de Francisco para a temática do diálogo inter-religioso, a construção de uma ecologia integral como tema de reflexão, encontro e colaboração inter-religiosas. Esta pesquisa integra-se no Projeto de Pesquisa sobre a Laudato Si coordenado pela professora orientadora. / [en] Pope Francis contribution to interreligious dialogue, especially through his encyclical letter Laudato Si, is the main theme of this dissertation. A presentation on the theme of interreligious dialogue in general was made, through reference works on this theme, in order to understand the challenges and importance of dialogue in times of religious pluralism and socio-ecological crisis. Thus, the ground was prepared to position Pope Francis contributions to the theme of interreligious dialogue, characterizing his action in favor of the dialogue of fraternity, in friendship and joint journey, which seeks the mutual enrichment and common good, working for peace, social justice, tolerance and religious freedom. The apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium was first used as a basis, the programmatic content of his pontificate which foresees the practice of interreligious dialogue as part of the evangelizing mission of the Catholic Church. The understanding was reached that interreligious dialogue is within Francis s pastoral practice. The hypothesis question then arose: is there in Francis an original and singular contribution to the theme of current interreligious dialogue? Question answered positively. Through the analysis of Laudato Si, it was found an original contribution of Francis to the theme of interreligious dialogue, the construction of an integral ecology as a theme of interreligious reflection, encounter and collaboration. This research is part of the Laudato Si Research Project, coordinated by the research advisor teacher of this dissertation.

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This Diploma Thesis deals with two universalistic conceptions, represented by the Swiss Catholic Theologist Hans Küng and his work Global Ethics, and the Civil Religion. In the first part of my text, I bring in the personality of Hans Küng, his work, ideas and the book Global Ethics which received great acclaim on international forum, Churches and society. Küng draws up three basic theses: No world peace without peace among religions. No peace among religions without dialogue between the religions. No dialogue between the religions without accurate knowledge of one another. These theses express the need for a dialogue, being able to formulate viable visions of the future. In the second part of my work, I introduce a less known notion of the Civil Religion with its transformations and development throughout the history. It is a concept exceeding the border of sociology, political science, philosophy and theology, examining the formative processes of the society and its religious reference speech. It penetrates the academic discourse especially in the period between the 1960s and 1980s, as represented e.g. by the American sociologist Robert Bellah. In the third part of my text, I compare both the universalistic conceptions and try to find out where they intersect and in which respect each of them has...

[pt] Urge, em um mundo onde a pluralidade é percebida com mais intensidade, discutir novos parâmetros para a prática missionária. Os contextos indígenas, que veem de um longo processo de resistência aos modelos tradicionais de evangelização, despontam no novo cenário religioso, não mais como destinatários da salvação, mas como portadores da revelação, reivindicando critérios baseados na alteridade, diversidade e diálogo. É preciso repensar como comunicar a fé em Jesus Cristo e sua salvação em uma cultura específica, dado que o tão aclamado processo de globalização é ambíguo, pois, pese a tentativa de produzir uma homogeneidade cultural, tem gerado, paradoxalmente, movimentos identitários organizados e pulverizados, de distintos matizes. É o caso da cultura quéchua, que, para alguns, está em processo de desaparecimento, e, para outros, está se reinventando. Como estabelecer um diálogo entre essas minorias e a fé cristã, com vistas a um amadurecimento do processo de inculturação em curso? Quais seriam os elementos revelacionais na cultura quéchua e como enriqueceriam o cristianismo como expressão da fé cristã? Essas foram algumas perguntas que nortearam esta tese. Não temos a pretensão de resolver todo o processo de inculturação da fé entre os quéchuas. Mas buscamos contribuir para o diálogo e a missão entre os quéchuas, aprofundando a reflexão sobre as consequências do encontro entre o Evangelho e as culturas, no sentido de reconhecer as riquezas da cultura e da religião local como provenientes de Deus e torná-las comum a todos. Esta tese busca ser uma contribuição e reconhecimento ao esforço da teologia índia, refletindo sobre a inculturação entre os quéchuas, ao mesmo tempo em que se revela uma defesa e uma valorização das culturas autóctones indígenas. A tese foi organizada em três grandes capítulos com subdivisões demarcadas. O primeiro capítulo gira em torno do eixo histórico-cultural quéchua. Apresenta a riqueza da cultura e as especificidades da religião quéchua, tendo a festa Inti Raymi como pano de fundo e expressão de fé. Expõe as categorias do pensamento andino e como os quéchuas estruturam seu Cosmos (Pacha). O segundo capítulo, propõe uma teologia cristã que favoreça o diálogo e o reconhecimento revelacional de Deus nas culturas e nas religiões. Gira em torno do eixo teológico. O terceiro, gira em torno do eixo dialógico-missionário. Analisa como seria missionar entre os quéchuas a partir dessa matriz dialogal, evangelizando e sendo evangelizado pelo outro. Inculturar é, também, dialogar com as bases religiosas de outra cultura. / [en] It is urgent in a world where plurality is an intensely perceived reality, to discuss new standards for the missionary practice. The indigenous contexts, fruit of a long process of resistance to the traditional models of evangelism, generate in the new religious scene new modes of presence - not anymore as receivers of salvation but as vehicles of revelation, claiming new standards based on alterity, diversity, and dialogue. It is necessary to think over the ways to communicate the faith in Jesus Christ into specific cultures. Necessity still more urgent in a world which faces a ambiguous globalization process that, on one side, offer a kind of cultural homogenization and, on other side, generates new identity movements – so diverse, fragmented and plural. That is the case of the Quechua culture. For some interpreters it is on the verge of disappearance and, for others, it is reinventing itself. How to establish a dialogue between these minorities and the Christian faith? How to perform it in a new mode of enculturation and maturity? What would be the revelation elements in the Quechua culture and how would they enrich the Christianity as an expression of true Christian faith? These have been the questions asked all along this dissertation. We do not have the pretension to solve and present the whole process of enculturation among the Quechuas. Instead, we intent to contribute to the dialogue and mission among the Quechuas by deepening the reflection about the consequences of the encounter between Gospel and culture, trying to recognize the riches of native culture and religion as originating from God himself and trying to make them manifest to all readers. Therefore, this dissertation is a contribution and a token to the efforts of Indigenous theologies, by reflecting on the enculturation among the Quechuas and, at the same time, offering a defense and pledge to their autochthones cultures. The dissertation structures itself around three chapters with several subsections. The first chapter deals with the cultural history of the Quechua people. It presents the riches of their culture as also as the peculiarities of their religion, whose main expression and background is the Inti Raymi Festival. It describes the categories of Andean thought and the ways the Quechua organize their Cosmos (Pacha). The second one proposes a Christian theology that promotes the dialogue and the recognition of the presence of God’s revelation in all cultures and religions. The third one revolves around the dialogue-mission axis. Presents modes of mission among the Quechuas based on dialogue, understanding the evangelism as a give-and-receiving process. It understands enculturation as a formal dialogue with the religious foundations of the culture of the other.

[pt] Diálogo e anúncio, a partir do Vaticano II é uma dupla atividade que a Igreja tem desenvolvido, de modo inauferível, com a nova aproximação religiosa surgida desde então. Muito embora a Igreja tenha dialogado, ao longo de sua existência,com os diversos povos aos quais levou o anúncio da salvação cristã, a progressiva aproximação inter-religiosa, que surge desde o Concílio Vaticano II, traz elementos novos e geradores de uma considerável tensão: dá-se,indubitavelmente, um entrechoque, na participação concreta do diálogo, entre as propostas de cada tradição religiosa, para a solução daquelas questões que tanto inquietam o ser humano, no mais íntimo de seu ser. Qual a sua origem? Qual o seu fim último? Assim, o interesse deste trabalho se volta para o trato com este duplo aspecto presente hoje na missão da Igreja: a sua participação no diálogo inter-religioso, atendendo às exigências que lhe são peculiares, sem, entretanto, deixar de cumprir o seu dever de anunciar a todos os povos a salvação trazida por Jesus Cristo. / [en] Dialogue and announcement, from the Vatican II are a double activity that the Church has developed, in an inherent way, with the new appeared religious approach since then. Even though the Church has dialogued, throughout its existence, with different kind of people to which it took the announcement of the Christian salvation, the gradual Inter- religious approach, that appears since Vatican Council II, brings new and generating elements of a considerable tension: it is given, doubtless, a shock , in the concrete participation of the dialogue, among the proposals of each religious tradition, for the solution of those questions that disturb the human being, in the closest of its being. Which is the origin? Which is the last end? Thus, the interest of this work is about the treatment with this double present aspect in the mission of the Church today: its participation in the Inter-religious dialogue, taking into consideration the requirements that are peculiar, however, fulfilling its duty to announce to the people the salvation brought by Jesus Christ.

Interfaith dialogue is no luxury for Christians living in a pluralistic~ effervescent world of intenningling, multi-religious realities. Many Christians take seriously their responsibility towards interfaith dialogue. However, different Christians understand this responsibility in different ways, which often leads to acrimonious accusations of unchristian dialogical approaches. The question is whether there is any means of ordering and assessing the Christian responsibility towards other religions in a mutually uplifting and increasingly holistic way? Ken Wilber provides an integral, or All-Quadrant, All-Level hermeneutics that may assist us with an answer. All holonswhich means everything in the "Kosmos" - emerge or arise in holarchical fashion. On one level, it is a whole, on the next transcendent level it is a part of the whole. This process is infinite and is only ever released in One Taste/salvation/Nirvana/the Kingdom of God, or simply unqualifiable Suchness. Wilber provides an integrated methodology for understanding the process by which holons find their release in One Taste. The holon of Christian responsibility towards interfaith dialogue also emerges through discreet, recognizable stages. Each stage is integrated into the next higher level. The lower levels are more fundamental since they exist as a part of the higher levels. However, the higher levels are more significant, since they have an increased capacity to explore aspects of dialogue previously hidden. The levels we explore are the mythic rational, the rational and the centauric. 'lbese levels emerge through four interrelated dimensions or Quadrants: the Upper Left or spiritual/faith dimension of the person entering into dialogue, the Upper Right Quadrant or theology of dialogue that emerges, the Lower Left or communal and interpretive realm, and Lower Right which covers the social organizational patterns with which the person in dialogue chooses to associate him or herself. We define responsibility in tenns of these four Quadrants: The response or theology (UR) of the person is dependent upon her response-ability, or interior faith development (UL), which is informed by the worldview (LL) of her faith community to whom she feels responsible, with the sociological patterns of her community (LR), to some extent, offers clues as to her stage of development. / Religious Studies and Arabic / D.Th.(Religious Studies)

[pt] Os conceitos de trindade e ternariedade são fundamentais para refletir sobre o diálogo inter-religioso. A expressão relacional da trindade surge no terceiro artigo do Credo Niceno (381 d.C.). Apesar disso, o Espírito Santo ficou invisibilizado na teologia por séculos, por causa da base binitária na lógica do pensamento ocidental. Isso gerou falsa polarização entre fé e ciência, e monoteísmo e pluralismo. Ao ser revelada a ternariedade, pela filosofia de Peirce (séc. XIX) e a física quântica de Planck (séc. XX), tornou-se categoria da transdisciplinaridade. A teologia seguiu laborando pelo paradigma aristotélico – binitário, misógino e com a potência na coisa visível – e produzindo discursos monológicos eruditos, autodefensivos e solitários, numa contramarcha que provocou atrasos na reflexão teológico-filosófica do mundo ocidental, com impacto nas relações ecumênicas e inter-religiosas. O novo paradigma teológico interpela teólogos/as sobre sua responsabilidade diante da comunidade, por tocar na ética da vida e implicar na salvação. Sua incidência na América Latina é relevante pelo histórico de confronto, dominação militar, submissão cultural e imposição religiosa desta. Sob a influência das teologias da libertação, feminista, negra e indígena, as eclesialidades são chamadas a rever sua relação com a pós-modernidade, base mínima para entrar no diálogo interreligioso. E reelaborar novas bases epistemológicas para pensar o transreligioso, sem sucumbir à tentação monoteísta de constranger a realidade para ceder ao seu propósito. / [en] The concepts of trinity and ternarity are fundamental to think about the inter-religious dialogue. The relational expression of the trinity appears in the Nicene Creed s third article (381 A.D.). In spite of that, the Holy Spirit remained in theology for centuries, because of the binitary base in the western thought s logic. This fact generated a false polarization between faith and science, and monoteism and pluralism. When the ternarity was revealed for the Peirce s philosophy (19th century) and the Planck s quantum physics (20th century), it became the category of the transdisciplinarity. Theology continued working by the Aristotelian paradigm - binitary, misogynistic and with the potency in the visible thing - and producing erudite monological speeches, self defensives and solitarians, in a counter-attack that provoked arrears in the theological-philosophical reflection of the western world, with impact in the ecumenical and interreligious relationships. The new theological paradigm questions theologians about their responsibility in front of the community, because they touch life ethics and imply salvation. Its incidence in Latin America is important because the historic confrontation, military dominance, cultural submission and religious imposition of her. Under the influence of the liberation, feminist, black and indigenous theologies, the eclesialities are called to review its relationship with the postmodernity, minimum base to enter in the inter-religious dialogue. And reconstruct new epistemological bases to think the trans-religious, without succumbing to the monoteist temptation of constraining the reality to according with our purpose. / [es] Los conceptos de trinidad y ternariedad son fundamentales para pensar en el diálogo interreligioso. La expresión relacional de la trinidad aparece en el tercer artículo del Credo Niceno (381 a.C.). A pesar de eso, el espíritu santo permaneció invisible en la teología durante siglos, debido a la base binitaria de la lógica del pensamiento occidental. Este hecho generó una polarización falsa entre la fe y ciencia, y monoteísmo y pluralismo. Cuando la ternariedad se reveló en la filosofía de Peirce (siglo XIX) y en la física quántica de Planck (siglo XX), se volvió una categoría de la transdisciplinaridad. La teología continuó trabajando por el paradigma Aristotélico - binitario, misógino y con la potencia en la cosa visible - y produjo discursos monológicos, autodefensivos y solitarios, en una contramarcha que provocó atrasos en la reflexión teológico-filosófica del mundo occidental, con el impacto en las relaciones ecuménicas e interreligiosas. El nuevo paradigma teológico cuestiona a los teólogos sobre su responsabilidad delante de la comunidad, porque a ellos toca la ética de vida e implica la salvación. Su incidencia en Latinoamérica es importante por la confrontación histórica, dominación militar, sumisión cultural e imposición religiosa de ella. Bajo la influencia de las teologías de la liberación, feminista, negra e indígena, las eclesialidades son llamadas para repasar su relación con la pósmodernidad, base mínima para entrar en el diálogo interreligioso, y reconstruir la nueva base epistemológica para pensar lo transreligioso, sin sucumbir a la tentación monoteísta de constreñir la realidad a ceder a nuestro propósito.

Interfaith dialogue is no luxury for Christians living in a pluralistic~ effervescent world of intenningling, multi-religious realities. Many Christians take seriously their responsibility towards interfaith dialogue. However, different Christians understand this responsibility in different ways, which often leads to acrimonious accusations of unchristian dialogical approaches. The question is whether there is any means of ordering and assessing the Christian responsibility towards other religions in a mutually uplifting and increasingly holistic way? Ken Wilber provides an integral, or All-Quadrant, All-Level hermeneutics that may assist us with an answer. All holonswhich means everything in the "Kosmos" - emerge or arise in holarchical fashion. On one level, it is a whole, on the next transcendent level it is a part of the whole. This process is infinite and is only ever released in One Taste/salvation/Nirvana/the Kingdom of God, or simply unqualifiable Suchness. Wilber provides an integrated methodology for understanding the process by which holons find their release in One Taste. The holon of Christian responsibility towards interfaith dialogue also emerges through discreet, recognizable stages. Each stage is integrated into the next higher level. The lower levels are more fundamental since they exist as a part of the higher levels. However, the higher levels are more significant, since they have an increased capacity to explore aspects of dialogue previously hidden. The levels we explore are the mythic rational, the rational and the centauric. 'lbese levels emerge through four interrelated dimensions or Quadrants: the Upper Left or spiritual/faith dimension of the person entering into dialogue, the Upper Right Quadrant or theology of dialogue that emerges, the Lower Left or communal and interpretive realm, and Lower Right which covers the social organizational patterns with which the person in dialogue chooses to associate him or herself. We define responsibility in tenns of these four Quadrants: The response or theology (UR) of the person is dependent upon her response-ability, or interior faith development (UL), which is informed by the worldview (LL) of her faith community to whom she feels responsible, with the sociological patterns of her community (LR), to some extent, offers clues as to her stage of development. / Religious Studies and Arabic / D.Th.(Religious Studies)

While few would deny America is the most powerful nation on earth, there is considerable debate, and controversy, over how America uses its foreign policy power. This is even truer since the “unipolar moment,” when America gained sole superpower status with the end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War. In the Cold War Reinhold Niebuhr was the main theological voice speaking to American power. In the Unipolar world, the Religious right emerged as the main theological voice, but instead of seeking to curb American power the Religious right embraced Neoconservatism in what I will call “Totemic Conservatism” to support use of America's power in the world and to triumph Manifest destiny in American foreign policy, which is the notion that America is a chosen nation, and this legitimizes its use of power and underpins its moral claims. I critique the Niebuhrian and Religious right legacies, and offer a classical realist strategy for theology to speak to America power and foreign policy, which avoids the neoconservative and religious conservative error of totemism, while avoiding the jettisoning of Niebuhr's theology by political liberals, and, the political ghettoizing of theology by his chief critics. This strategy is based on embracing the understanding of classical realism, but not taking the next step, which both Niebuhr and neoconservativism ultimately do, of moving from a prescriptive to a predictive strategy for American foreign policy. In this thesis, I argue that in the wake of the unipolar moment the embrace of the Religious right of Neoconservatism to triumph Manifest destiny in American foreign policy is a problematic commingling of faith and politics, and what is needed instead is a strategy of speaking to power rooted in classical realism but one which refines Niebuhrian realism to avoid the risk of progressing a Constantinian theology.

This study which is the product of library research and fieldwork seeks, on account of the persistent marginalisation of African Traditional Religion (ATR) in Sierra Leone by Islam and Christianity, to investigate the place of ATR in inter-religious encounters in the country since the advent of Islam and Christianity. As in most of sub-Saharan Africa, ATR is the indigenous religion of Sierra Leone. When the early forebears and later progenitors of Islam and Christianity arrived, they met Sierra Leone indigenes with a remarkable knowledge of God and a structured religious system. Successive Muslim clerics, traders, and missionaries were respectful of and sensitive to the culture and religion of the indigenes who accommodated them and offered them hospitality. This approach resulted in a syncretistic brand of Islam. In contrast, most Christian missionaries adopted an exclusive and insensitive approach to African culture and religiosity. Christianity, especially Protestantism, demanded a complete abandonment of African culture and religion, and a total dedication to Christianity. This attitude has continued by some indigenous clerics and religious leaders to the extent that Sierra Leone Indigenous Religion (SLIR) and it practitioners continue to be marginalised in Sierra Leone's inter-religious dialogue and cooperation. Although the indigenes of Sierra Leone were and continue to be hospitable to Islam and Christianity, and in spite of the fact that SLIR shares affinity with Islam and Christianity in many theological and practical issues, and even though there are many Muslims and Christians who still hold on to traditional spirituality and culture, Muslim and Christian leaders of these immigrant religions are reluctant to include Traditionalists in interfaith issues in the country. The formation and constitution of the Inter-Religious Council of Sierra Leone (IRCSL) which has local and international recognition did not include ATR. These considerations, then beg the questions: * Why have Muslim and Christian leaders long marginalised ATR, its practices and practitioners from interfaith dialogue and cooperation in Sierra Leone? * What is lacking in ATR that continues to prevent practitioners of Christianity and Islam from officially involving Traditionalists in the socio-religious development of the country? Muslim and Christians have given several factors that are responsible for this exclusion: * The prejudices that they inherited from their forebears * ATR lacks the hallmarks of a true religion * ATR is primitive and economically weak * The fear that the accommodation of ATR will result in syncretism and nominalism * Muslims see no need to dialogue with ATR practitioners, most of whom they considered to be already Muslims Considering the commonalities ATR shares with Islam and Christianity, and the number of Muslims and Christians who still hold on to traditional spirituality, these factors are not justifiable. Although Islam and Christianity are finding it hard to recognise and include ATR in interfaith dialogue and cooperation in Sierra Leone, ATR continues to play a vital role in Sierra Leone's national politics, in the search and maintenance of employment, and in the judicial sector. ATR played a crucial part during and after the civil war. The national government in its Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report acknowledged the importance and contribution of traditional culture and spirituality during and after the war. Outside of Sierra Leone, the progress in the place and level of the recognition of ATR continues. At varying degrees, the Sociétié Africaine de Culture (SAC) in France, the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC), the Vatican, and the World Council of Churches, have taken positive steps to recognise and find a place for ATR in their structures. Much about the necessity for dialogue and cooperation with ATR can be learnt in the works and efforts of these secular and religious bodies. If nothing else, there are two main reasons why Islam and Christianity in Sierra Leone must be in dialogue with ATR: * Dialogue of life or in community. People living side-by-side meet and interact personally and communally on a regular basis. They share common resources and communal benefits. These factors compel people to be in dialogue * Dual religiosity. As many Muslims and Christians in Sierra Leone are still holding on to ATR practices, it is crucial for Muslims and Christians to dialogue with ATR practitioners. If Muslims and Christians are serious about meeting and starting a process of dialogue with Traditionalists, certain practical issues have to be considered: * Islam and Christianity have to validate and accept ATR as a true religion and a viable partner in the socio-religious landscape of Sierra Leone * Muslims and Christians must educate themselves about ATR, and the scriptures and teachings of their respective religious traditions in order to relate well with Traditionalists These are starting points that can produce successful results. Although at present Muslims and Christians in Sierra Leone are finding it difficult to initiate dialogue and cooperation with Traditionalists, all hope is not lost. It is now the task of the established IRCSL to ensure the inclusion of ATR. Islam and Christianity must remember that when they came as strangers, ATR, played host to them and has played and continues to play a vital role in providing hospitality, and allowing them to blossom on African soil. / Religious Studies and Arabic / D.Litt. et Phil. (Religious Studies)