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Discourses of Religion and Secularism in Religious Education Classrooms (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Discourses of Religion and Secularism in Religious Education Classrooms (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This book answers the question on how students and teachers talk
about religion when the mandatory and nonconfessional school
subject of Religious Education is on the schedule in the "world's
most secular country" To do this, it analyses discourses of
religion as they occur in the classroom practice. It is based on
findings from participant observation of Religious Education
lessons in several upper secondary schools in Sweden. The book
discusses different aspects of the role and function of
nonconfessional integrative Religious Education in an increasingly
pluralistic, multireligious, yet also secularized society, at a
general level. It looks at the religious landscape, different
perspectives on school subjects, various models and the development
of Religious Education, and discourses of religion of a secularist,
spiritual and nationalistic nature. Religious Education is a school
subject that manoeuvres in the midst of a field that on the one
hand concerns crucial knowledge in a pluralistic society, and on
the other hand deals with highly contested questions in a society
characterized by diversity and secularity. In the mandatory,
integrative and non-confessional school subject of Religious
Education in Sweden, all students are taught together regardless of
religious or secular affiliation. The subject deals with major
world religions, important non-religious worldviews and ethics,
from a non-confessional perspective. Thus, in the classroom,
individuals who identify with diverse religious and non-religious
worldviews, with a different understanding of what religion could
be and what it might mean to be religious, are brought together.
The book examines questions raised in this pluralistic context:
What discourses of religion become hegemonic in the classroom? How
do these discourses affect the possibility of reaching the aim of
Religious Education which concerns understanding and respect for
different ways of thinking and living in a society characterized by
diversity?
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