Title: Religious education and the challenge of pluralism /
Authors: Seligman, Adam B., 1954-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Religious education Cross-cultural studies.; Freedom of religion Cross-cultural studies.; Education and state Cross-cultural studies.; RELIGION / Education.; RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State.; RELIGION / Comparative Religion.; Freedom of religion Cross-cultural studies.; Religious education.; Religious pluralism.
Abstract: "This book offers a comparative analysis of religious education and state policies towards religious education in seven different countries and in the European Union as a whole. Most of the cases studied have not been presented previously in the English speaking world. The comparative contextualization of the different countries studied here, Muslim majority, Orthodox Christian, Jewish and secular (or laic) is also new. The challenge addressed by the book's different studies, is quite simply if religious education can itself be a vehicle for civic enculturation and the creation of ties of belonging and meaningful solidarity across different ethnic and religious communities in the contemporary world. In many of the countries studied, the state and the program of state-making was associated with one religio-ethnic community and then the question remains if religious education that privileges that religious community can provide such shared terms of meaning for members of different communities. This is the challenge faced by such countries at Bulgaria, Israel, Malaysia and in a slightly different way (facing not religious diversity but ethnic difference), Turkey. The case of Cyprus, by contrast, is one of a country actually split along lines of ethno-religious difference. Additional studies of the connection between religious education and the terms of citizenship in the EU, France and the USA provide important contrasts to the challenges facing us as we seek to educate our citizenry in an age of religious resurgence and global politics"--
Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Living Together Differently, Education, and the Challenge of Deep Pluralism -- Adam Seligman -- 1. Teaching Religion in the European Union: A Legal Overview -- Silvio Ferrari -- 2. Religion and Ethical Education in Divided Societies: The Case of Cyprus -- Dilek Latif -- 3. Teaching Religion in Bulgarian Schools; Historical Experience and Post-Atheist Developments -- Maria Schnitter & Daniela Kalkandjieva -- 4. The Vanishing State: Religious Education and Intolerance in French Jewish Schools -- Kimberly Arkin -- 5. The Crises of Liberal Citizenship: Religion and Education in Israel -- Shlomo Fischer -- 6. Secularism(s), Islam, and Education in Turkey: Towards E Pluribus Unum? -- Ahmet Kuru -- 7. Walking the Tightrope: Prospects for Civil Education and Multiculturalism in "Ketuanon Melayu" Malaysia -- Joseph Liow -- 8. Educating Citizens in America: The Paradoxes of Difference and Democracy -- Ashley Berner and James D. Hunter -- 9. Afterword -- Adam Seligman -- Index.