Overview
- Examines shifts in religious education in Europe over the past 50 years
- Takes a wider view of shifts across the continent from reforms implemented in Sweden in the 1960s
- Calls for a reevaluation of the foundations of religious education
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This book analyzes the changes and shifts in religious education in Europe over the past 50 years. In a post-secular age, it has become increasingly difficult to make sharp distinctions between what is religious and non-religious, confessional and non-confessional. Reforms in religious education in Sweden in the 1960s appeared as part of a process of wider secular liberalization, giving more credence to the idea of absolute neutrality in religious education. However drastic shifts in society, culture and the European religious landscape raise the need for a reevaluation of the foundations of religious education. Drawing on a range of case studies from across Europe, this book will appeal to students and scholars of religious education as well as post-secular education more generally.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Olof Franck is Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Peder Thalén is Professor at the University of Gävle, Sweden.
Peder Thalén is Professor at the University of Gävle, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religious Education in a Post-Secular Age
Book Subtitle: Case Studies from Europe
Editors: Olof Franck, Peder Thalén
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47503-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47502-4Published: 28 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47505-5Published: 28 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47503-1Published: 27 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 253
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Religion and Education, Philosophy of Education, Educational Philosophy, Secularism, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education