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An Exercise in Inter-Religious Conceptualization: Towards Online Creative Conversations

An Exercise in Inter-Religious Conceptualization: Towards Online Creative Conversations

Pierre Lévy
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781466650350|ISBN10: 1466650354|EISBN13: 9781466650367
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5035-0.ch006
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Lévy, Pierre. "An Exercise in Inter-Religious Conceptualization: Towards Online Creative Conversations." New Media and Communication Across Religions and Cultures, edited by Isaac Nahon-Serfaty and Rukhsana Ahmed, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 82-98. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5035-0.ch006

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Lévy, P. (2014). An Exercise in Inter-Religious Conceptualization: Towards Online Creative Conversations. In I. Nahon-Serfaty & R. Ahmed (Eds.), New Media and Communication Across Religions and Cultures (pp. 82-98). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5035-0.ch006

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Lévy, Pierre. "An Exercise in Inter-Religious Conceptualization: Towards Online Creative Conversations." In New Media and Communication Across Religions and Cultures, edited by Isaac Nahon-Serfaty and Rukhsana Ahmed, 82-98. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5035-0.ch006

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Abstract

Inter-religious dialogue is expected to increasingly take on the form of online creative conversations that rely on digital data and documents. The first part of this chapter is about the current symbolic obstacles on the road to cultural and religious “intercomprehension” in this context: mainly the incompatibility and the cultural biases of classification systems. To overcome these obstacles (and some others), the authors propose using IEML (Information Economy MetaLanguage), a computable language specially suited to the online intercultural dialogue that was developed at the Canada Research Chair in collective intelligence at the University of Ottawa. The second and main part of this chapter presents some examples of the application of basic IEML categories to the religious domain.

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