Description
With the 26th International Seminar for Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling theSIPCC begins a series of seminars for the coming years, directed at exploring the meaning
and the potentials of
Culture – Religion – Tradition
for contemporary living-conditions and for care and counselling in our multi-cultural and
multi-religious societies. The plan is to look at the issues from different aspects until 2017.
An International Study Group will accompany the Seminars, provide advice and support and
publish documentations of the results.
The Seminar in Mennorode, Netherlands will focus on the main-theme from two primary
angles:
In order to understand them better one needs to become better acquainted with other or
even ‘strange’ religions, faith-traditions and humanistic spiritualities. Religions, faithtraditions and non-religious spirituality attract some people, while others can become
bewildered, feel insecure or frightened. The pluralities of religions, world-views, faithtraditions and spiritualities are welcomed and accepted by parts of our societies, others
reject and marginalize them and consider the situation to be a danger for the cohesion of
societies. On the other hand the “Other” is and the “others” are an expression of diversity
and an integral part of the cohabitation of societies and people today. They represent a
reality with which we have to reckon in practices of care and counselling.
| Period | 30 Sept 2014 |
|---|---|
| Held at | society for intercultural pastoral care and counselling, Germany |
| Degree of Recognition | International |