Why Is Religion Important

Why Religion is important for a globalised market

My main focus point for this paper is to see the benefits of why religion should be taught in schools. Many people agree that religion is a waste of time but I’m going to show that it is necessary to teach religion due to educational purposes but not necessarily preached by the students. Religion plays a major role in intercultural competencies, communication of the world and culture and the education of major religions are important for successful communication in international relations between the world.

Religion is such a diverse subject and it has many links with other areas like politics and history which create the society in which we live in today. Many people fail to recognise how much power religion has, as Kirby points out, that it is perhaps more

A particular society that has its own beliefs, ways of life, art, etc. A way of thinking, behaving or working that exists in a place or organization.

Beneke (2000) defines intercultural competence as more than just the skill to communicate with others, also considering it a mastery of “knowing that cultures simultaneously share and differ in certain aspects” in combination with ”the ability to cope with one 's own cultural background in interaction with others”. (Guidelines for Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence)

Taking advantage of what is given could create an interest in the young people to pursue the cognition of different cultures, this way widening their horizon. If so they could teach children at a young age to accept and respect others, develop their intercultural competence

Children should have more of a participation in wider social communities to help widen their horizon.. Such participation shapes what we do, who we are, how we interpret what we do. (lleris - Contemporary Theories of Learning, chapter. 15, p.