Education in Post-Conflict Transition: The Politicization of Religion in School Textbooks

ISBN-13: 9783319566047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 316 str.

Gorana Ognjenović; Jasna Jozelić

Opis

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's. It traces the segregation among members of different ethnic groups in Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia, which has never been greater or more systematic. It aims to be a necessary step in understanding the origins of this systematic segregation and how it is reproduced in educational practice, asserting that the politicization of religion in the school textbooks is one of the motors responsible for the ongoing ethnic segregation. It also deals with complex aspects of this issue, such as the general situation of religion in the different countries, the social position of churches, the issues of gender, the reconciliation after the Yugoslav Wars, and the integration of the EU.

Spis treści

Table of Contents

Preface

Paul Mojzes

1. Introduction

Gorana Ognjenović & Jasna Jozelić

2. Changing Faces Swapping places, Oh Sister, Where Art Thou?

Gorana Ognjenović

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3. The Politicization of Education in conflict-affected countries: The legitimization of a divided society 

Jasna Jozelić

4. Islamic Religious Instruction in the context of EU Integration and Education Reform 

Zrinka Štimac

5. Slovenia: social changes and (adjustable) politicization of Catholic Church

Maca Jogan

6. From Vrhbosna to Brussels, Catholic Religious Education Between Local and European Perspectives 

Zrinka Štimac

7. Analysis of Catholic religious instruction textbooks in Croatian primary school: how do they teach atheism? 

Ankica Marinković

8. Politicization of the religious textbooks in Slovenia

Maca Jogan

9. Religious Education and Large Group Identity

Dženana Husremović

10. Religious Education in Serbia as a Litmus Test for Church-State Relations

Bojan Aleksov  

11. Education and Politicization of Religion in Post-Conflict countries: Orthodoxy in school textbooks, Desecularization and Ethnic distance in Serbian textbooks

Srđan Barišić and Vladimir Jevtić

12. An Analysis of the Religious Education Textbooks in Serbia

Svenka Savić

13. The Analysis of the textbooks for Orthodox religious education in Serbia

Zorica Kuburić

14. Afterword: Religion at school: to teach or not to teach? The case of Kosovo.

Gjylbehare Bella Murati

Conclusion

O autorze

Gorana Ognjenović is Research Fellow at the University in Oslo, Norway. She is contributing editor of an anthology Responsibility in Context (Springer 2009) and contributing co-editor with Jasna Jozelić of Politicization of Religion, The Power of Symbolism (Palgrave 2014) and Politicization of Religion, The Power of State, Nation, Faith (Palgrave 2014), Revolutionary Totalitarianism, Pragmatic Socialism, Transition (Palgrave 2016), Titoism, Self-determination, Nationalism, Cultural Memory (Palgrave 2016).

Jasna Jozelić is Advisor at Norwegian Center for Human Rights and Dr. philos candidate at the University in Oslo, Norway. She is contributing editor with Gorana Ognjenović of Politicization of Religion, The Power of Symbolism (Palgrave 2014) and Politicization of Religion, The Power of State, Nation, Faith (Palgrave 2014), Revolutionary Totalitarianism, Pragmatic Socialism, Transition (Palgrave 2016), Titoism, Self-determination, Nationalism, Cultural Memory (Palgrave 2016).