Dubrovnik Seminar “Future of Religion” 40 years jubilee

• Main Author: Nonka Bogomilova
• Format: Article
• Language: Bulgarian
• Published: South-West University "Neofit Rilski", Department of Sociology, Academic seminar "Media and Education" 2016-09-01
• Series: Проблеми на постмодерността
• Subjects: Future of Religion course; Inter-University Center; main topics; participants; publications
• Online Access: https://pmpjournal.org/index.php/pmp/article/view/67

The paper describes and analyzes the main topics, concepts and stages in the 40 years life of the International seminar "Future of Religion" held within the Academic Program of the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik. Three stages of the course development are emphasized: 1977 - 1991, 1991 - 1999, 2000 - 2016. The topics and the discussions at the seminar sessions are analyzed as theological, philosophical, sociological reflection on religion, and as ethical attitude toward intellectual and cultural developments and processes during the social changes, the war in ex-Yugoslavia and the post-communist transformations in the end of 20th and the beginning of 21st century. The mutual collaboration and understanding among participants coming from  variety of nations, sciences, religions is emphasized as a special intellectual ethos of the "Future of Religion" course. The course relevant publications - individual and collective -  are outlined. The problem of the Humanities humanism is given a special attention.