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Religion, Education and Human Rights

Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Anders Sjöborg

    1. Department of Theology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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  2. Hans-Georg Ziebertz

    1. Institute of Practical Theology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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  • Is the first book to cover religion, education, and human rights from an international perspective
  • Elaborates a multi-perspective view on religion and human rights
  • Brings together scholars from different disciplines and adds an interdisciplinary approach to our understanding of a much-debated issue in diverse modern societies

Part of the book series: Religion and Human Rights (REHU, volume 1)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Education in the Context of Religious Pluralism and Human Rights – An Introduction

    • Anders Sjöborg, Hans-Georg Ziebertz
    Pages 1-9

  3. Sacred or Profane? Human Rights in Religious Education in Poland

    • Katarzyna Zielińska, Marcin K. Zwierżdżyński
    Pages 11-30

  4. Path of Belarusian Secularism: Public Debates on Religious Education

    • Olga Breskaya
    Pages 31-47

  5. Examining Religious Education in Finland from a Human Rights Perspective

    • Saila Poulter, Arniika Kuusisto, Mia Malama, Arto Kallioniemi
    Pages 49-61

  6. Silent Religious Minorities in Schools in Estonia

    • Olga Schihalejev, Ringo Ringvee
    Pages 63-76

  7. May Children Attend Church Services During School Hours?

    • Pål Ketil Botvar
    Pages 77-90

  8. Teaching the History of Human Rights

    • Dan-Erik Andersson
    Pages 91-100

  9. Religion in School – A Judicial Perspective

    • Victoria Enkvist
    Pages 101-111

  10. How Young Muslims and Christians Structure Human Rights: An Empirical Study in Germany

    • Hans-Georg Ziebertz
    Pages 113-137

  11. The Influence of the Socio-cultural Environment and Personality on Attitudes Towards Human Rights

    • Hans-Georg Ziebertz, Alexander Unser, Susanne Döhnert, Anders Sjöborg
    Pages 139-164

  12. Conscientious Objections in Clinical Healthcare Education as a Manifestation of Religion

    • Kavot Zillén
    Pages 165-177

  13. Good Practice in Human Rights Education in Schools

    • Paula Gerber
    Pages 179-203

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 205-212
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About this book

This book examines the interconnectedness between religion, education, and human rights from an international perspective using an interdisciplinary approach. It deals with compulsory or secondary school education in different contexts, as well as higher education, and has as its common theme the multiplicity of secularisms in different national contexts. Presenting rich cases, the contributions include empirical and theoretical perspectives on how international trends of migration and cultural diversity, as well as judicialization of social and political processes, and rapid religious and social changes come into play as societies find their way in an increasingly diverse context. The book contains chapters that present case studies on how confessional or non-confessional Religious Education (RE) at schools in different societal contexts is related to the concept of universal human rights. It presents cases studies that display an intriguing array of problems that point to the role ofreligion in the public sphere and show that historical contexts play important and different roles. Other contributions deal with higher education, where one questions how human rights as a concept and as discourse is taught and examines whether withdrawing from certain clinical training when in university education to become a medical doctor or a midwife on the grounds of conscientious objections can be claimed as a human right. From a judicial point of view one chapter discerns the construction of the concept of religion in the Swedish Education Act, in relation to the Swedish constitution as well European legislation. Finally, an empirical study comparing data from young people in six different countries in three continents investigates factors that explain attitudes towards human rights. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Theology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Anders Sjöborg

  • Institute of Practical Theology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Hans-Georg Ziebertz

About the editors

Anders Sjöborg is Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre, Department of Theology, Uppsala University (Sweden). He is active as researcher and coordinator in the research program The Impact of Religion – Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy, which is established as a Centre of excellence by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) and Uppsala University, 2008-2018. He is one of the editors of YOUNG – Nordic Journal of Youth Research. He has recently published in journals such as British Journal of Religious Education, Nordic Journal of Religion and Society, and Journal of Religious Education.

Hans-Georg Ziebertz is Professor of Practical Theology / Religious Education at the University of Würzburg (Germany). Since 2012, he is the leader of the international empirical research program Religion and Human Rights. Recent books: together with J. A. van der Ven, Human Rights and the Impact of Religion (2013), together with Gordan Črpić, Religion and Human Rights. An international perspective (2015) and recently, Religionsfreiheit (2015).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Religion, Education and Human Rights

  • Book Subtitle: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

  • Editors: Anders Sjöborg, Hans-Georg Ziebertz

  • Series Title: Religion and Human Rights

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54069-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54068-9Published: 21 April 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85309-3Published: 08 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54069-6Published: 13 April 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2510-4306

  • Series E-ISSN: 2510-4314

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 212

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Religion, Human Rights, Religion and Society, Religion and Education

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