TOLEARATION OR RECOGNITION. TOWARDS A NEW ACCOUNT OF RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN CONTEMPORARY EGYPT

If we portrait Egyptian socio-cultural context in the last few years, we can remarkably find out an avoidable form of contradiction which attaches to daily religious aspects. Now we can see a wide distance of intolerance currently exists in Egyptian's practical which reflect on their daily and formal; religious and cultural dialogues. This case of intolerance dramatically led to various acts of violence and hatred between Muslim and Christian. How can we understand the nature of that contradiction and how possibly can we raise it? Therefore the present study suggests a new theoretical frame of reference aims to recognize the world as characterized by different identities rather than different beliefs and values. This research through anthropological method seeks to describe all forms of tolerance in Egyptian daily life, determining the all forms of relationships between tolerance and other variables like religious pattern, educational status, gender and finally socio-economic class