Education about Religions and Worldviews

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Promoting Intercultural and Interreligious Understanding in Secular Societies

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This volume explores empirical and theoretical studies on education about religions and worldviews (ERW) across Western societies including Britain, Ireland, Canada, Norway, Finland, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. It examines how educational programmes addressing diverse religions and worldviews aim to foster interreligious understanding and social cohesion amid concerns about youth radicalisation and growing secularism. The book considers how state education systems are responding to increasingly multifaith and non-religious populations, highlighting common themes and best practices to inform policies on religious literacy and intercultural dialogue.
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Scholars, educators, policy makers, and students interested in religious education, intercultural studies, and social cohesion in diverse and secular societies will find this work insightful and informative.

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This volume presents the findings of several empirical and theoretical studies on education about religions and worldviews (ERW) conducted in the Western societies of Britain, Ireland, Canada, Norway, Finland, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada.

Educational programmes about diverse religions and worldviews began to be investigated and implemented as strategies to encourage interreligious understanding and social cohesion, particularly following the 2005 London bombings when a fear of youth radicalisation and home-grown terrorism became prevalent.

In addition, as a growing number of people in Western societies, especially young people, declare themselves to have no religious affiliation, state actors are currently grappling with the reality that we are living in increasingly multifaith and non-religious societies. Consequently, government education systems have become places of contestation as a result of these changes.

Education about Religions and Worldviews examines ERW research and policies in several diverse places in the hope of identifying common themes, overlapping insights, and best practices that can inform research and policy for religious literacy and interreligious understanding in other contexts.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367023898

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 August 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Contributors:

Edited by Anna Halafoff
Edited by Elisabeth Arweck
Edited by Donald Boisvert

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 310g

Pages: 156

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality

About the Author

Anna Halafoff is a Lecturer in Sociology and a member of the Alfred Deakin Research Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on religious diversity, religion and education, and Buddhism in contemporary society. She is the author of The Multifaith Movement: Global Risks and Cosmopolitan Solutions (2013). Elisabeth Arweck is a Senior Research Fellow in the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU), Centre for Education Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, and the Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Religion. Her recent research has focused on young people’s attitudes to religious diversity and the religious socialisation and nurture of young people. Recent publications include a number of book chapters and co-authored articles and (co-edited) volumes, such as Religion and Knowledge (with Mathew Guest, 2012), Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age (with Chris Deacy, 2009). She is the author of Researching New Religious Movements in the West (2006). Donald Boisvert is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Religion at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. In addition to a number of articles, he has published the following books: Out on Holy Ground: Meditations on Gay Men’s Spirituality (2000), Sanctity and Male Desire: A Gay Reading of Saints (2004), nominated for the Lambda Literary Award, Gay Catholic Priests and Clerical Sexual Misconduct: Breaking the Silence (edited with Robert E. Goss, 2005) and a two-volume collection, Queer Religion (edited with Jay Emerson Johnson, 2012).