S p i r i t ua l i t y S t u d i e s 5 - 2 Fa l l 2 0 1 9 5 1 Monika Zaviš sult of migration. In comparison to non-Muslim woman who is expected to have 1,6 children, Muslim woman is expected to have 2,6 children. According to Pew Research Center projections, in the coming decades the Muslim fertility rates are expected to grow in Europe, so that they could more than double (Hackett 2017). The fact is that ignorance inspires mistrust and prejudice that play a major role in religious conflicts around the world, and therefore we have a moral obligation at universities to prevent these humanity’s evils using the objective and up-to-date content of the curriculum that our students can adequately prepare for encounter with another religion or culture. Since there is a compulsory course of non-confessional religious education in Denmark and Sweden already at primary school, we know with certainty that their pupils are able to form their perception, attitude and respect for another religion in a completely different way than it is in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where there is still an unwritten distinction between pupils and parents of believers and non-believers according to whether their children visit a course of religious education or ethical education, which is extremely superficial and inadequate. Each person’s religious belief is indisputable; however, a completely different dimension is the general knowledge of particular religions and cultures of the world, which makes the student more educated, open, flexible, cosmopolitan and consistently mature. Inter-religious communication can be built under condition of knowing the religious doctrines and practices of people of other cultures, but as long as some countries remain at today’s level – confessional religious education versus ethical education, they will not avoid the future superficial division of society based on prejudices, nor the general lack of education of pupils in religions and cultures. and its growth was particularly in years 2010–2016 the repopulation makes up roughly 5 % of the whole population, 2019). Totally different situation is in Europe, where Muslim revolutionary (Inhorn 2018, 147–159; Gargji and Chaudary world and that this fertility decline has been profound, even claims, that fertility rates have plummeted across the Muslim this corresponds to the trend in the rest of the world. Inhorn changed over the past thirty years in the Middle East, and tions 2012). The trend of high fertility growth has radically had occurred in Muslim, a majority Arab nation (United na- 2012, almost half of the world’s top fifteen fertility declines tions 2013, xix), nevertheless, according to the Un figures by projected to increase at least five-fold by 2100 (United na- population as shown in parentheses, e.g. Somalia (99,8 %), African countries, which have the vast majority of Muslim worldwide. Although this is the most true regarding certain related to conviction on its extremely growing fertility rates Another incorrect, but overall wide-spread image of Islam is stereotypes. conflict, scandalousness, fragmentation, incompleteness and news related to Islam come as primary these news values: of Rončáková’s description, we can state that connected to 28). Analyzing our knowledge of islamophobia in the context completeness, (6) stereotypes, and (7) story (Rončáková 2017, scandalousness, (3) entertainment, (4) fragmentation, (5) in- with religious messages: (1) conflict first and foremost, (2) identify seven crucial news values that could be associated nalistic research. During her research, Rončáková managed to Religion-related reporting tactics are also covered by jour- and suicide bombers (Jančovič and Bencová, 2018, 5–56), etc. flatly identified Muslims with Islamists in terms of terrorists al. 2018, 54–57). Also, many mass media have until recently infection with unknown diseases (Kováč, Krčméry, oláh et religious and cultural aspects, but also the fear of potential Growing xenophobia (Dojčár 2017, 10–11) involves not only not only marginally and briefly. past, but it should also focus on the present and the future, of religions at Slovak universities should not remain in the at lectures. The presentation of history and phenomenology a certain and constant shift in religious law is mostly absent dividual and social principles, while the current Islam with historical level, by accentuating historically axiomatic in- these facts, that Islam is presented at universities at a more communicate competently inter-religiously. It follows from tive bioethics in Islam, our respondents would not be able to to confession of Muslim’s wife, and contemporary reproduc-
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