Religious education and religious choice
According to the "religious choice case" for compulsory religious education, pupils have a right to be made aware of the religious and irreligious paths open to them and equipped with the wherewithal to choose between them. A familiar objection to this argument is that the idea of religiou...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of beliefs and values |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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[2015]
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Journal of beliefs and values
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Religionswissenschaft AH Religionspädagogik |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
religious choice
B doxastic voluntarism B Religious Education B Religious Belief B leap of faith B Personal Autonomy |
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| Zusammenfassung: | According to the "religious choice case" for compulsory religious education, pupils have a right to be made aware of the religious and irreligious paths open to them and equipped with the wherewithal to choose between them. A familiar objection to this argument is that the idea of religious choice reduces religion to a matter of taste. I argue, first, that this familiar objection fails and, second, that we nevertheless have good reason to reject the religious choice case. Religious and irreligious views have a core cognitive dimension that makes it inappropriate to talk of choosing between them. What I have elsewhere called the "possibility-of-truth case" remains the strongest justification for compulsory religious education. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9362 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of beliefs and values
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2015.1013817 |