THE PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL BRINGING UP THROUGH THE CLASS OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Abstract

The aim of this article is to determine the possibilities of developing an intercultural bringing up through teaching the class of religious studies. Having in mind that the international institutions concerned with educational issues in their oficial documents explicitly request the development of interculturalism, and further that local laws and regulations, accepting the directives and suggestions given in these international documents, request promotion of intercultural values, we have researched some options for the development of intercultural bringing up in the class of religious studies. After we established the meaning of the term intercultural bringing up we focused our attention on the elements of inetrculturalism in the holy texts. We observed how the holy texts advocate respect, recognition and understanding of the others and the different. Next we researched some documents of religious communities bringing forth the elements that are concerned with the topic of intercultural values. At the end of the article we presented some thoughts of the experts in the eld of the development of intercultural sensibility through teaching the religious studies.