Religion for Peaceful Coexistence: Case of Georgia

In the heterogeneous societies the great importance is gaining the creation of system of peaceful societal coexistence. This can be reached through strengthening the meeting points between the representatives of various groups. The long-term mutual relations between the traditional religious communities in the Caucasus have been developed during the centuries. In conditions of positive or negative stereotypes, the mutual adaptation basically proceeded by a peaceful way. Culture as an adoptive and changeable system is progressing according to the historic-cultural contexts. The changes and transformations can be caused by the various factors. The influences and impacts are evident especially among the cultures, which were existed or exist side by side in the same physical and temporal space. These overlaps were a reason of formation of the certain shared practices. The forms of practices are various and they are changing under the influence of the processes going on within the society. The natural trend of finding the meeting points or trying to turn to such milestones even the disintegration factors is characteristic to the multicultural, mosaic cultures. In Georgia such points among the others appeared to be the shared religious practices.