Uncertainty and Mortality: Two Stubborn Particulars of Religious Education
In an education context in which ‘knowledge’ is seen as ‘powerful’ and as having ‘impact’, religious education is—or should be—at the forefront of understanding how people are and will always be living in uncertainty, whilst also searching for truth. The
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Case Studies from Europe Edited by Olof Franck · Peder Thalén
Religious Education in a Post-Secular Age
Olof Franck • Peder Thalén Editors
Religious Education in a Post-Secular Age Case Studies from Europe
Editors Olof Franck University of Gothenburg Gothenburg, Sweden
Peder Thalén University of Gävle Gävle, Sweden
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Preface
The concept of non-confessional and diverse religious education that was realized in the Swedish schools during the 1960s was shaped in an intellectual space of a distinctively modern kind. Discussions about late modernity or post-modernism had not yet begun and the thought of post-secularism had barely made any sense. The idea of neutrality which permeated the new model for religious education was characterized by a belief in the possibility of conveying knowledge of religion entirely unaffected by the views of the teacher and the surrounding society: knowledge about religion. Similar views can be found in England and Wales, where phenomenology of religion played an important role as a platform for the shaping of Religious Education (RE). The rise of the new religious education in Sweden also needs to be understood against the background of a cultural situation in which the state church of that time had recently possessed the power in society to define how people should relate to life, through both its language and cont
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