Towards Comprehensive Religious Education (a Trial for New Research Ways within the Frame of Liberalism and Multiculturalism Concepts)

AbstractHumanism is a concrete result of the battle which the Western civilization made with Catholic Church. Church and God was tried to be weakened since they are regarded as tools of oppression which tries to estrange people to the values that turns a human being into a person, and these tools were tried to be replaced with human, directly. This change in ontological paradigm paved a way to enlightenment, also by affecting information, and enlightenment paved a way to fast technological developments. In this study, in order to understand the concept of humanism, which we consider as the condition for understanding today and future and creation of new values upon this understanding, and in order to present the connection of humanism to our root values, I will try to think out loud within the context of the effects of the relation between the concepts of liberalism, pluralism and multiculturalism, which I think have a close relation to humanism, on religious education perceptions. In a world in which cultures, religions and races spread freely and which is smaller than before what kind of a multicultural society model can we build up? How ready are we to practice these models in historical and intellectual senses? I will try to discuss the answers to these questions