Education about Religions and Worldviews: Promoting Intercultural and Interreligious Understanding in Secular Societies

ISBN-13: 9781138683600 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 156 str.

Anna Halafoff; Elisabeth Arweck; Donald Boisvert

Opis

This volume presents the findings of a number of empirical and theoretical studies on education about religions and worldviews (ERW) conducted in the Western societies of Britain, Ireland, Canada, Norway, Finland, New Zealand, Australia and Canada. Educational programmes about diverse religions and worldviews began to be investigated and implemented as strategies to encourage interreligious understanding and social cohesion, particularly following the 2005 London bombings when a fear of youth radicalisation and home-grown terrorism became prevalent. In addition, as a growing number of people in Western societies, and young people especially, declare themselves to have no religious affiliation, state actors are currently grappling with the reality that we are living in increasingly multifaith and non-religious societies and government education systems have become places of contestation as a result of these changes. This volume examines ERW research and policies in a number of diverse places in the hope of identifying common themes, overlapping insights and best practices that can inform research and policy for religious literacy and interreligious understanding in other contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of the "Journal of Intercultural Studies."

Spis treści

Introduction: Education about Religions and Worldviews: Promoting Intercultural and Interreligious Understanding in Secular Societies  1. Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity: Socialising Agents and Factors Emerging from Qualitative and Quantitative Data of a Nation-Wide Project in the UK  2. ‘Respect Study’ the Treatment of Religious Difference and Otherness: An Ethnographic Investigation in UK Schools  3. International Human Rights Law: Its Potential and Limitations in Effecting Change to the Place of Religion in the Irish Education System  4. Education and Common Values in a Multicultural Society - The Norwegian Case  5. Pupils’ Perceptions of Worldview Diversity and Religious Education in the Finnish Comprehensive School  6. Religion in New Zealand’s State Primary Schools  7. Education about Diverse Religions and Worldviews, Social Inclusion and Countering Extremism: Lessons for the Australian Curriculum  8. Commentary: Quebec’s Ethics and Religious Culture School Curriculum: A Critical Perspective