10/07/2025 08:30
- 12:00
HALL: Seminar Room 04
Proponent:
Pistor-Hatam A.,
Zeller K.
Chair:
Schindler K.,
Zeller K.
Speaker:
Klimek S.,
Michel S.,
Nakou V.,
Pistor-Hatam A.,
Schindler K.,
Steinebach L.,
Stolzenberg L.,
Zeller K.
This panel brings together scholars from a range of disciplines who study the difficulties and possibilities of tolerance in a variety of settings. These include Christian as well as Shiite Islamic and African indigenous religions from both European and non-European contexts in contemporary and past societies. As the invited scholars are members of the research unit "The Difficulty and Possibility of Tolerance: The Multifaceted Challenges of the Concept and Practice of Tolerance", funded by the German Research Foundation, their papers will be closely linked to the disapproval-respect model of tolerance developed by the social psychologist Bernd Simon (Kiel). According to this model, tolerance is the result of disapproval being restrained by respect or respect being burdened by disapproval. In both cases, therefore, tolerance is the recognition of disapproved others as 'different equals' - in this case 'different' because of their membership of a particular religious group - and 'equal' because of their shared membership of a superordinate ingroup (i.e. the same society). There are, of course, many implications of this model which is a very valuable heuristic tool. In our papers we use the model to identify and discuss the possibilities and limits of tolerance in the context of religion.