Religious Education in a Post-Secular Age
Case Studies from Europe
Editors: Franck, Olof, Thalén, Peder (Eds.)
- 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.
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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, 255
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations
- Topics
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