| This project studies the influence of moral education on moral and religious identity construction with due regard to cultural differences. Two pertinent interreligious contexts are examined: the school and the army. Schools represent a training context which, especially in large cities, have an increasingly interreligious composition. In this context the study focuses on the influence of moral development on pupils' interreligious communication. The project will be conducted in collaboration with Prof. Dr C.A.M. Hermans's study of identity construction in interreligious learning. Another interreligious context where moral development takes place is the army. Not only is its staff multicultural, but it is also increasingly engaged in intercultural and interreligious conflict and crisis situations. In this context the focus is on the influence of the experience and perpetration of violence on the moral and religious identity construction of the military. Another aspect of the study is the conditions under which moral development is conducive to interreligious communication about personal moral and religious identity. |
