Interfaith dialogue as a medium of peace building

Publication information:

Theology & Culture is the Academic Journal of the Department of Theology & Culture, Univeristy College Logos and is published online two times per year. The Department is located at Saint Blaise, 5 minutes outside Durrës, Albania. Volume 1, Number 2, December 2020 ISSN: 2708-6755

Aims and Scope:

Theology & Culture is an international peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research articles in the field of Theology, Study of Religion, Education, Literature and Social Sciences. The journal publishes reviews, original papers, conference announcements, book reviews and research reports trying to provide a platform for experts and scholars worldwide to exchange their latest researches and findings. Another goal of the Journal will be the promotion of case studies that concern religion, history, culture and society in Albania and the Balkans in general. The official language of the Journal is English and only in special cases will be printed articles in German, French or Italian.

Editorial Board Members:

1. Dr. Georgios Gaitanos, Lecturer of Religious Studies (Head of the

Department of Theology and Culture, University College Logos) 2. Dr. Georgios Keselopoulos, Lecturer of Liturgical Studies (Department of

Theology and Culture, University College Logos)

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Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Penelope A. Anastasiadou, Christos Ν. Tsironis & Dimitrios A. Αndreadis

1. Church and Philanthropy in the Healtcare Sector: A case study in a Greek Orthodox Diocese 11

Efstathios C. Lianos Liantis

2. The historical geopolitics of Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans: Aspects of coexistence between Orthodox Christianity and Islam 29

Georgia Sarikoudi

3. Social Anthropology during socialism and postsocialism in South and Eastern Europe 43

Georgios Gaitanos

4. Interfaith dialogue as a medium of peace building: official and unofficial mediation platforms 55

Thoma Çomëni

5. Autonomy and bioethical challenge 65

Vasso Tsirevelou

6. Eliot: cultural effects on barren and desolate land. Cultural ideologies in the poem, The Waste Land 83