Religious education and the challenge of pluralism /

This study offers a comparative analysis of religious education and state policies toward religious education in seven different countries and in the European Union as a whole. The book simply and directly challenges a major question through different studies - the question of religious education ac...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Seligman, Adam B., 1954- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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 and Daniela Kalkandjieva
  • 4. The Vanishing State: Religious Education and Intolerance in French Jewish Schools / Kimberly A. 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 T. Kuru
  • 7. Walking the Tightrope: Prospects for Civil Education and Multiculturalism in "Ketuanon Melayu" Malaysia / Joseph Chinyong Liow
  • 8. Educating Citizens in America: The Paradoxes of Difference and Democracy / Ashley Rogers Berner and James Davison Hunter
  • Afterword / Adam Seligman.