Religious education and teaching young people about humanity: Suggesting a new role for RE and for the academic study of religions in Sweden

This article is a suggestion for the rethinking of the role and purpose of religious education (RE) in Swedish public schools, in relation to two major recent reforms: of teachers training (2012) and of syllabi for RE (2011). Based on a notion of the ‘humanistic’ study of religions as he study of re...

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Main Author: Svensson, Jonas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2015]
In: Temenos
Year: 2015, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 177-199
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Swedes / Religious instruction / Humanity / Science of Religion
RelBib Classification:AH Religious education
KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia
Further subjects:B Sweden
B Religious Education
B syllabi
B educational reforms
B humanistic study of religions
B didactics of religion
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