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Religious studies and nonconfessional RE

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Ondertitel:countering the debates
Since the late 1960s, several nations adapted their religious education (RE) system, thereby moving from a confessional, theology-based, to a nonconfessional, religious studies-based approach. However, this shift has been criticized frequently, the main criticisms being nonconfessional RE cannot be neutral, that it leads to relativism, and that it fosters a reductionist view on religion. The author shows that these criticisms are not new but are like the criticisms at the address of the study of religion and the phenomenology of religion. To counter these criticisms in the context of RE, Robert Jackson's interpretive approach is put forward as a considerable way out.
Tijdschrift: Religion & education
ISSN: 1550-7394
Volume: 45
Pagina's: 155 - 172
Jaar van publicatie:2018
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