OD NEPROSVEĆENOG MONIZMA KA AUTENTIČNOM RELIGIJSKOM PLURALIZMU
FROM UNENLIGHTENED MONISM TO AUTHENTIC RELIGIOUS PLURALISM

Summary/Abstract: The European world went an arduous journey of cultivation in the sphere of religious life and interreligious relations. After religious wars of the Late Middle Ages which was characterized by a rigid viewpoint of the unenlightened religious monism, a concept of tolerance started to develop, first as an idea, and then on a wave of secularization of European culture and a real legal and political plane. With its first, and for the time very valuable, planted ideas, religious tolerance calmed down fanatical European spirits and provided a peaceful life for different confessions in the spirit of enlightened monism. For a long time, until the Second World War, religious tolerance meant a tolerant attitude - a preservation of a peaceful but essentially completely indifferent border – toward the religiously other. However, religious tolerance based on an idea of authentic religious pluralism prevails in modern times over this basically secular concept suitable for the age of international order of national states. In these final achievements, in the age frequently called post-secular, bridges are built that mean both interconfessional dialogue and cooperation on the project of building society and political communities, and inner transformation of religious consciousness of modern man, which is opened to authentic religious experience and pluralism developed in the bosom of monotheism. Therefore, this paper tests the idea of religious tolerance in our time by problematizing fundamental challenges on the way of its planetary acceptance.

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