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Introduction At the heart of dialogue is
Throughout history there have inter-religion dialogue as
been lots of conflicts among religion is the most
people in different parts of the comprehensive of all other
world due to religious and faiths human disciplines as long as
differences; thus, dialogue there have been Homo sapiens
between the followers of different (The pre-historic wise men)
religions and faiths can remove may be since 70.000 BCE
the misunderstanding. (Swidler, 2013: 1) to explain
Connecting various people to the ultimate meaning of life
each other and providing them and how to live accordingly.
with relevant information, social (Swidler and Mojzes, 2000: 1)
media can solve the problem and The term dialogue covers
promote the dialogue. However to several engagements between
avoid any bias, the social media religions from formal to
users should be equipped with informal debates with scholars
some skills to be able to analyze, to daily conversations between
understand and evaluate the believers with the purpose of
content. social change, peaceful
This paper is going to overview coexistence, religious growth
first of all both social media and and mutual understanding
interfaith dialogues. It then bases while the common feature of
its work on the three skills all these forms of mutual
introduced by Potter (2013) to interfaith dialogues is mutual
answer the research question that respect and learning from each
how social media can be used for other, so interfaith dialogue
interfaith dialogue? refers to any forms or degrees
of constructive engagement
Interfaith Dialogue between religious traditions.
The world always needs (Cornille, 2013: 12)
dialogue as human beings have It should be kept in mind
been described as social beings that dialogue between religions
since the time of Aristotle. is not a neutral study of
(Spitzer, 2012: 109) religions, dialogue is not only