The nature of religiosity in our time. Being resilient through the courage of interfaith encounter

Abstract

The aim of this essay is to examine a trait of being religious today as the interreligious encounter, within the complexity of our time. I will try to develop my thoughts around two questions that I have posed myself in view of this conference that are associated with my preoccupation as teacher and believer in the perspective of looking at interreligious dialogue and more specifically at interfaith encounter as a new way of being religious in relation to the ‘other’ and as a new form of testimony of faith, lived in relation to diversity: (a) How the nature of religiosity and the way of being religious have changed in a secular age? (b) What does Christian Revelation teach us today, in terms of resilience, in the way of being believers when at the same time religious and cultural pluralism, secularism and fundamentalisms are phenomena extremely active at global level?