The essays in this volume offer a groundbreaking comparative
analysis of religious education, and state policies towards
religious education, in seven different countries and in the
European Union as a whole. They pose a challenging and crucial
question: can religious education effect positive civic change and
foster solidarity across different ethnic and religious
communities? In many traditional societies and increasingly in
secular European societies, our place in creation, the meaning of
good and evil, and the definition of the good life, virtue, and
moral action, are all addressed primarily in religious terms.
Despite the promise of the Enlightenment and of the
nineteenth-century ideology of progress, it seems impossible to
come to grips with these issues without recourse to religious
language, traditions, and frames of reference. Unsurprisingly,
countries approach religious education in dramatically different
ways, in keeping with their respective understandings of their own
religious traditions and the relative saliency of different
ethno-religious groups within the polity. Religious Education and
the Challenge of Pluralism addresses a pervasive problem: in most
cases, it is impossible to provide a framework of meaning, let
alone religious meaning, without at the same time invoking language
of community and belonging, or of borders and otherness. This
volume offers in-depth analysis of such pluralistic countries as
Bulgaria, Israel, Malaysia, and Turkey, as well as Cyprus-a country
split along lines of ethno-religious difference. The contributors
also examine the connection between religious education and the
terms of citizenship in the EU, France, and the USA, illuminating
the challenges facing us as we seek to educate our citizenry in an
age of religious resurgence and global politics.
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