RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES IN RELATION TO PEACE AND JUSTICE

In: Studies in comparative communism: an international interdisciplinary journal, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 463-472

Abstract

ON THE BASIS OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES OF THE GREAT RELIGIONS, ONE MIGHT EXPECT TO FIND RELIGIOUS ATTITUDES TOWARD PEACE, EQUALITY, FREEDOM, LOVE, AND OTHER HIGHER VALUES. HOWEVER, THE RESULTS OF SEVERAL SETS OF ATTITUDE-VALUE STUDIES CONDUCTED DURING THE LAST FORTY YEARS, DO NOT CONFIRMS THIS HYPOTHESIS. THUS RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES SEEM TO BE IN CONTRADICTION.