Religious Education in a Post-Secular Age
Case Studies from Europe
Editors: Franck, Olof, Thalén, Peder (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Olof Franck is Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Peder Thalén is Professor at the University of Gävle, Sweden.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction: Religious Education and the Notion of the Post-secular
Pages 1-16
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Religious Education, Post-secularity and Neoliberalism
Pages 17-35
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Dealing with Religion in Education in Post-religious and Post-secular Times
Pages 37-56
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Religious Education Curriculum Constructions in Northern and Western Europe: A Three-Country Analysis
Pages 57-81
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What About Transformative Religious Education?
Pages 83-97
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Religious Education in a Post-Secular Age
- Book Subtitle
- Case Studies from Europe
- Editors
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- Olof Franck
- Peder Thalén
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-47503-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-47503-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-47502-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 253
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations
- Topics
