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DIALOGUE IRELAND |
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DIALOGUE IRELAND |
Over the years Ireland has been known as a "Catholic Country". Generally in Ireland we tend to confuse Religion with denomination or confession. When the census is taken instead of replying to the question, "What Religion are you", by saying Christian we reply Roman Catholic, Baptist etc. This situation is changing rapidly and now we have representatives of all the major world religions present here. Naturally our main focus is looking at groups that have their origins in these World religions, but are offshoots from them.
We wanted to have available to the general public links to these World Religions so that people can be informed about the Classical Religions that have shaped our world. This is also necessary particularly in the Irish context where there is no study of World Religions at third level or at second level where this subject is now on the curriculum. Some religions like Sikh's or Bahai regard themselves as World Religions, so we will have them in our A-Z of groups, but are happy to go with the five below.
| Buddhism | Christianity | Hinduism | Islam | Judaism |
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