The Aims for Religiously Inspired Urban Schools: Dialogue, Solidarity and Personal Identity Formation
Christian schools with open admission policies, especially in urban areas, are challenged in respect to the question of how particularism and pluralism can be combined. I will present and evaluate solutions to this question for Catholic schools in the United States and Christian schools in the Nethe...
| Published in: | International journal of education and religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2000
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| In: |
International journal of education and religion
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| Further subjects: | B
urban denominational schools
religious pluralism
educational aims
interreligious schools
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Volltext (Verlag) |
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| Summary: | Christian schools with open admission policies, especially in urban areas, are challenged in respect to the question of how particularism and pluralism can be combined. I will present and evaluate solutions to this question for Catholic schools in the United States and Christian schools in the Netherlands in a comparative way. Against the background of societal, cultural, and religious plurality, the diversity of religions already present in most of these urban Christian schools, and with regard to the aims of religiously inspired schools I make a plea in support of interreligious schools. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0623 |
| Contains: | In: International journal of education and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1570-0623-90000011 |