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Textbook Violence (Hardcover)
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Textbook Violence (Hardcover)
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Facing issues of violence and conflict, authors of textbooks for
Religious Education (RE) choose a range of different strategies.
While some try to write as non-controversially as possible about
such issues, other authors choose to leave them completely out.
Even in the academic study of religions, a well-established
perspective is that religion is primarily something good, and
important for societies as well as for human development. Such
basic presumptions/perspectives are often nurtured by an apologetic
orientation to the representation of religion. In some cases,
religious violence and conflict are therefore considered disruptive
forces that destroy what is "true," "authentic" and "valuable" in
religion.Textbook Violence offers critical perspectives on how
textbooks deal or not deal with issues of conflict and violence in
religions. The volume's contributions provide examples from
textbooks for university level as well as from RE in schools, and
include discussions of conflict and violence in a range of
different religious traditions. The contributors bring issues of
religious violence and conflict into focus through such questions
as: In what way is violence and/or conflict treated? Who are the
authorial voices? What are their aims? Who is the reader being
addressed? How are the representations of religions framed by value
judgments?Beyond certain obvious ideological considerations (e.g.,
nationalism; the interests of religious pedagogues who contribute
to textbooks in some countries), there are a number of different
factors shaping representations of religions in textbooks - from
commercial considerations and statutory stipulations to situations
where publishers and national examination boards work closely
together to produce textbooks with contents keyed to national
exams. This means that authors have to face different expectations
and considerations when writing textbooks. Textbook Violence will
also include reflections on the choices such authors are facing.
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