Inter-religious Marriage: A Struggle To Live With Differences


ER H. (Yürütücü)

Yükseköğretim Kurumları Destekli Proje, 2014 - 2014

  • Proje Türü: Yükseköğretim Kurumları Destekli Proje
  • Başlama Tarihi: Şubat 2014
  • Bitiş Tarihi: Nisan 2014

Proje Özeti

Abstract (Özet)
Globalization keeps creating new opportunities and challenges as well in our world. One of them, as either an opportunity or a challenge, is the fact that many people from different ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds get to know each other and some of them eventually get married. In terms of the idea of global peace and 'harmony among religions,' inter-religious marriage is the smallest social entity. A successful union of this sort can be a good example for other forms of unions in today's multicultural world.
However, one of the problems with inter-religious marriages is the upbringing of the children and thus their education in accordance with their parents' cultural and religious values. At that point, differences that love alone cannot overcome usually come in the way. In the case of these differences being religious in nature, marriage can be challenged seriously: spouses may have deep disagreements and their children may find themselves in-between the two religiously-oriented world views.
Therefore, these challenges should be taken into account substantially before proceeding to marriage. Moreover, spouses should respect and tolerate each other's religion in order to make inter-religious marriage work without being influenced by religious differences. In this essay, mostly depending on the Turkish case and leaning on secondary data, we will investigate into the difficulties possibly emerging in inter-religious marriage and make some further recommendations aimed at helping to avoid them.

Sonuç:
18 Şubat 2014 de Japonya-Osaka'da düzenlenen uluslararası bilimsel toplantıda sundum ve akademik olarak bir çok başarılı ilişkiler kurdum.