Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Willert, Trine Stauning

Titel

The Religion Class: Between a National, European and Multicultural Awareness

Ist Teil von

• New Voices in Greek Orthodox Thought, 2014, p.115-129

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Certain participants in the debates indicated that religious pluralism also comprises religious indifference and atheism; there have been no suggestions for teaching agnosticism or atheism as legitimate subjects in a new religion class. Recognising the indifference of most pupils towards religion would further strengthen arguments that religious consciousness does not need to be taught as a subject in its own right, thus, suggesting the abolition of the religion class which, of course, is not in the interest of theologians from both a professional and an ideological perspective. However, relatively progressive voices that is not in favour of a religion class that develops national/religious awareness. Instead, they propose a religion class as a way to develop the pupils' religious consciousness through the mission of the Church. The European awareness perspective is based on the need for modernisation of both the Greek educational system and the religion class, which are at the core of the debate on religious education.