Education in Post-Conflict Transition [electronic resource] : The Politicization of Religion in School Textbooks /
Ognjenović, Gorana.editor.
Jozelić, Jasna.editor.
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.
Includes index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Changing Faces Swapping Places, Oh Sister, Where Art Thou? -- 3. The Politicization of Education in Conflict-Affected Countries: The Legitimization of a Divided Society -- 4. Islamic Religious Instruction in the Context of EU Integration and Education Reform -- 5. Slovenia: Social Changes and (Adjustable) Politicization of Catholic Church -- 6. From Vrhbosna to Brussels, Catholic Religious Education between Local and European Perspectives -- 7. Analysis of Catholic Religious Instruction Textbooks in Croatian Primary School: How Do They Teach Atheism? -- 8. Politicization of the Religious Textbooks in Slovenia -- 9. Religious Education and Large Group Identity -- 10. Religious Education in Serbia as a Litmus Test for Church-State Relations -- 11. Education and Politicization of Religion in Post-Conflict Countries: Orthodoxy in School Textbooks, Desecularization and Ethnic Distance in Serbian Textbooks -- 12. An Analysis of the Religious Education Textbooks in Serbia -- 13. The Analysis of the Textbooks for Orthodox Religious Education in Serbia -- 14. Afterword: Religion at School: To Teach or Not to Teach? The Case of Kosovo.
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.
Religion and politics.
Church and education.
World politics.
Europe—Politics and government.
Russia—Politics and government.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Politics and Religion.
Religion and Education.
Political History.
European Politics.
Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.
Educational Policy and Politics.