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Religious Education in a Plural, Secularised Society. A Paradigm Shift

:	Leni Franken, Patrick Loobuyck (Hrsg.)
:	Religious Education in a Plural, Secularised Society. A Paradigm Shift
:	Waxmann Verlag GmbH
:	9783830975434
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:	Pädagogik
:	English

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Many European societies are characterised by increasing forms of secularisation and religious diversity. This results in a paradigm shift with regard to religious education. For a long time, the main aim of religious education was, clearly, to educate children in their own religious tradition. Today, the aims of religious education are much broader: contributing to pupils’ general education (Allgemeinbildung) and preparing them for participation as a citizen in the future, multicultural society.
As a result, the following question arises in many countries: how can ‘teaching into religion’ be transformed into or complemented by ‘learning about’ and ‘learning from (the study of) religions’?
This book brings several distinguished authors in the field of religious education together to reflect on this paradigm shift. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is rather descriptive and gives an informative and up to date overview of the different discussions about religious education in several European countries. The second part is a normative reflection on the question of how religious education should be organised in plural secularised societies.

“This book is very important for the discussion about religious education. Its comparative approach combined with the interdisciplinary dialogue between the different schools in the field of religious education, make this book highly recommendable for everyone who is interested in the state of the art and the future of religious education in Europe.”

Didier Pollefeyt, full professor in theology and religious education at the Catholic University of Leuven

	Contents	6
	Introduction	8
	Religious Education in a Religiously Pluralised and Secularised Society	10
	Part I: Different Models of Religious Education in Europe	16
	Situation and Current Developments of Religious Education in Europe	18
	1. Introduction	18
	2. Key Characteristics of Religious Education in Europe	19
	3. European Developments	26
	4. Perspectives	32
	Religious Education in Belgium: Historical Overview and Current Debates	36
	1. Introduction	36
	2. Historical Overview	37
	3. Some (Impressive) Facts and Figures6	43
	4. Practical Problems	46
	5. The New Sociological Situation	48
	6. Struggling and Coping with Depillarisation, Diversity and Secularisation	50
	Teaching about Religious Issues within the Framework of the French “Laïcité”	56
	1. The Principle of Laïcité: Church, State and School	56
	2. Towards Awareness of the Necessary to Stress More on Teaching about Religious Issues	59
	3. Teaching about Religious Issues within the Schools	63
	4. Conclusion	66
	References	66
	Without Fear or Favour: Forty Years of Non-confessional and Multi-faith Religious Education in Scandinavia and the UK	70
	1. ‘Without Fear or Favour’	70
	2. Forty Years of Non-confessional-multi-faith Religious Education	70
	3. Why did Non-confessional, Multi-faith Religious Education Develop?	72
	4. The Influence of Phenomenology	73
	5. Forty Years Later	75
	6. Forty Years Later in Non-confessional, Multi-faith Religious Education	76
	7. Varieties of Non-confessional, Multi-faith Religious Education	77
	8. The Lessons of Forty Years	81
	10. Remaining Questions	83
	11. Conclusion	83
	References	84
	Religious Education in a Pillarised and Postsecular Age in the Netherlands	86
	1. Introduction	86
	2. From State-Protestantism to Pillarisation	87
	3. From a Pillarised to a Post-secular Society	88
	4. Positioning Religion(s) in Denominational Schools: Current Situation and Trends	90
	5. Education of Encounter	93
	6. Squaring the Circle: Religious Citizenship Education	94
	7. Concluding Remarks	96
	References	97
	Religious Education in Norway	100
	1. Introduction: Obligatory Integrative Religious Education – the Norwegian Context	100
	2. Religious Education in Norway until the 1990s: the Emergence of a Separative Model2	101
	3. The Introduction of Integrative Religious Education in the 1990s	103
	4. Norwegian Integrative Religious Education and International Law: the Human Rights Issue	106
	5. Religion, Livssyn og Etikk (RLE): the Revised Subject of 2008	109
	6. Conclusion: Obligatory Education about Religions in Contemporary Plural, Secularised Societies	111
	References	113
	Part II: Should Religious Education be Part of the (State) School Curriculum? Three Normative Views	116
	Dialogue Needs Difference: The Case for Denominational and Cooperative Religious Education	118
	1. Denominational Religious Education in Educational Perspective	118
	2. Should Denominational Religious Education be Part of the (State) School Curriculum?	119
	3. Dialogue and Difference	122
	4. Different Approaches to Dialogue in Religious Education	123
	5. Perspectives for the Future: Different Paths towards Dialogical Religious Education in Different Locations?	128
	References	129
	Why Religion Education, as a Matter of Course, ought to be Part of the Public School Curriculum1	132
	1. Why Religion must be Studied and Taught about – Fundamentals	132
	2. A Compulsory, Separate Religion Education: Fundamentals	141
	3. Final Remarks and Arguments	145
	References	148
	Why Religious Education should not be Exclusively Religious	152
	1. Introduction	152
	2. The Five Models Briefly Introduced	153
	3. Religious Education and Secularism	157
	4. Traditional Secularism and Secularism Renewed	158
	5. Secularism and Criticism of Religion	159
	6. The Implications of Free Debate on Religion for the State Curriculum	160
	7. The Implications of Secularism for Religious Education	163
	References	164
	Conclusion	168
	The Challenges of the Paradigm Shift in Religious Education	170
	1. The Importance of National Contexts	170
	2. A Shift in Paradigm	172
	3. Convergences	173
	4. Challenges and Discussion	175
	5. Conclusion	177
	Biographical Details	178