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Religious commitment and interreligious understanding can be cultivated simultaneously in multicultural schools through a combination of faith-specific instruction, shared everyday boarding life, and institutional practices centered on shared moral values. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine how religious education is organized within a multicultural boarding environment to intentionally foster both individual religious identities and constructive interreligious engagement.

September 6, 2026International Studies in Catholic Education

A pedagogy of interreligious encounter: religious education in a multicultural boarding school in Indonesia

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To examine how religious education is organized within a multicultural boarding environment to intentionally foster both individual religious identities and constructive interreligious engagement.
Qualitative instrumental case study design conducted at Selamat Pagi Indonesia (SPI) Senior High School.
Semi-structured interviews with the school principal, religious education teachers, and students.
Participant observation paired with qualitative document analysis of institutional practices.
Identified three integrated pedagogical dimensions: separate faith-specific classes, sustained cross-faith contact through communal boarding life, and shared institutional rituals such as Spiritual Day.
Demonstrated that personal faith commitment and interreligious understanding can be successfully developed in tandem rather than competing as opposing educational outcomes.
Established the Pedagogy of Interreligious Encounter as a transferable conceptual model for faith-based schools navigating religious diversity.

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Qualitative case study reveals simultaneous cultivation of personal faith commitment and interreligious understanding in boarding school students, highlighting the value of shared daily living.

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Salim et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9d1eb628139818eab21cfc https://doi.org/10.1080/19422539.2026.2718446

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Qualitative case study reveals simultaneous cultivation of personal faith commitment and interreligious understanding in boarding school students, highlighting the value of shared daily living.

A pedagogy of interreligious encounter: religious education in a multicultural boarding school in Indonesia

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A pedagogy of interreligious encounter: religious education in a multicultural boarding school in Indonesia

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