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Religious Education in a Post-Secular Age

Case Studies from Europe

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Editors:
  1. Olof Franck

    1. University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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  2. Peder Thalén

    1. University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden

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  • Examines shifts in religious education in Europe over the past 50 years
  • Takes a wider view of shifts across the continent from reforms implemented in Sweden in the 1960s
  • Calls for a reevaluation of the foundations of religious education

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Religious Education and the Notion of the Post-secular

    • Olof Franck, Peder Thalén
    Pages 1-16

  3. Religious Education, Post-secularity and Neoliberalism

    • Nigel Fancourt
    Pages 17-35

  4. Dealing with Religion in Education in Post-religious and Post-secular Times

    • Geir Skeie
    Pages 37-56

  5. Religious Education Curriculum Constructions in Northern and Western Europe: A Three-Country Analysis

    • Kerstin von Brömssen, Graeme Nixon
    Pages 57-81

  6. What About Transformative Religious Education?

    • Gunnar J. Gunnarsson
    Pages 83-97

  7. Transition in RE in Finland

    • Martin Ubani, Saila Poulter, Inkeri Rissanen
    Pages 99-122

  8. Uncertainty and Mortality: Two Stubborn Particulars of Religious Education

    • Julian Stern
    Pages 123-138

  9. Changing the Game in English Religious Education: 1971 and 2018

    • Denise Cush
    Pages 139-156

  10. World View Instead of Religion?

    • Peder Thalén
    Pages 157-178

  11. A Study-of-Religion(s) Based RE: A Must for All Times—Post-modern, Post-secular or Not!

    • Tim Jensen
    Pages 179-206

  12. Autonomy and Shared Citizenship: A ‘Neutral’ Justification for RE?

    • Leni Franken
    Pages 207-228

  13. Facing Religious Ethical Claims in Post-secular Ethics Education: Challenges and Contributions

    • Olof Franck
    Pages 229-248

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 249-253
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About this book

This book analyzes the changes and shifts in religious education in Europe over the past 50 years. In a post-secular age, it has become increasingly difficult to make sharp distinctions between what is religious and non-religious, confessional and non-confessional. Reforms in religious education in Sweden in the 1960s appeared as part of a process of wider secular liberalization, giving more credence to the idea of absolute neutrality in religious education. However drastic shifts in society, culture and the European religious landscape raise the need for a reevaluation of the foundations of religious education. Drawing on a range of case studies from across Europe, this book will appeal to students and scholars of religious education as well as post-secular education more generally.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Olof Franck

  • University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden

    Peder Thalén

About the editors

Olof Franck is Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 


Peder Thalén is Professor at the University of Gävle, Sweden.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Religious Education in a Post-Secular Age

  • Book Subtitle: Case Studies from Europe

  • Editors: Olof Franck, Peder Thalén

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47503-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47502-4Published: 28 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47505-5Published: 28 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47503-1Published: 27 September 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 253

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Religion and Education, Philosophy of Education, Educational Philosophy, Secularism, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education

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